December 5-9

The SMART Response clickers keep on popping up. As soon as you think you've seen the last of them, the materials person finds some more boxes stuffed in a warehouse! Once again, this week I worked on taking out all those little screws, putting in the batteries, adding labels, for all 30 clickers, for all 12 sets. Our district is notorious for finding materials months after they were sent. However, I've gotten pretty fast at doing it. Also, I helped classroom teachers set up their SMART Response systems. The lower elementary grades didn't receive clickers until a couple months after the higher grades so they didn't get training. Since I've been using mine for awhile, I've been working with different teachers and helping them get started using this system. Next week I will continue working on this.

November 28 - December 2

This week I worked on setting up our assessment programs for our school-wide mid-year assessments. Two of these assessments are done on the computer. Teacher classes have to be set up and students enrolled in the program before attempting to give the assessment. Teachers will need to have the assessments completed before Christmas break. Mike showed me how to get into these programs with the administrative password, create teacher classes, and add students. I worked on getting students into the system so testing can start. Since we have new teachers at our school, I went to their classrooms to show them what tests they would be giving, how to log into the system, gave them their passwords, showed them how to view the results, and how to print reports.