Mrs. Jones is writing her lesson plans for next week and has identified and prepared the core curriculum resources and activities for her students. Now she can add supplemental materials from Classworks to reinforce and extend learning. Mrs. Jones presents objectives to the whole class and also uses small group rotations as part of her plan to meet the diverse needs of her students. She found two types of instructional resources in the Create tab within Classworks: Classroom Math Problem Sets and standards-based math activities (see below for how to search and assign these activities). She will also use a Classworks offline Enrichment Project.

Mrs. Jones reviewed the "Classroom Math" problem sets and selected "K-4 Count From a Given Number - Kim and Bob Counting Together" because it supplements the math lesson she is teaching this week. She will use one of the questions during a whole group activity and use her interactive whiteboard to solve the triangle problem while using digital tools and resources.

Mrs. Jones decided that students would complete the other two problems from this activity during this week’s small group rotations. To facilitate this, she has printed out these problems and has prepared a copy for each learner.  

She also adds two standards-based math activities: "Counting Numbers to 20" and "Counting Objects 1 - 15". She chose activities where students count out a number of objects in a game environment. Mrs. Jones will model how this game works and then call students to the interactive whiteboard to engage with the "Counting Plants" activities with support.

Mrs. Jones also incorporated Classworks activities into her Reading/ELA lesson plans for this week. She selected the Mini-Lesson from Initial and Final Consonants since it includes brief text samples she can use to model how to isolate initial and final sounds. She also selected and assigned practice activities from an instructional unit that students will complete during their small group rotations this week.

Mrs. Jones models how to complete each portion of a Classworks unit for the entire class before having them go to their small group stations.

Mrs. Jones outlined her plan below.

The kindergarten team at Mrs. Jones' school used the school’s testing calendar and developed this screening plan. The Classworks Universal Screeners are administered online. Mrs. Jones has been preparing her students for this type of assessment by modeling how to answer multiple-choice questions. She also spends time talking about the purpose of the screener and why it’s important to take time with each question.

Mrs. Jones’ students are familiar with rotating to different stations during their small group instructional time. The assessment plan follows this already familiar process by having students complete the screener using their station schedule during the 2-week testing window.

Mrs. Jones used the table below to map out when students will complete the Reading/ELA and Mathematics screeners.

Mrs. Jones continued to integrate components of Classworks into her whole-class and small group plans as she did during the first semester.

Mrs. Jones also incorporated Classworks activities into her Reading/ELA lesson plans for this week. She selected the Mini-Lesson from Recognizing Words that Rhyme and assigned practice activities that students will complete during their small group rotations this week. Some of her students will benefit from practicing playing the learning games. She will demonstrate how each game works when students rotate to the different stations and encourage students to explain to each other how to win the different games.

Mrs. Jones outlines her plan as follows.

Let’s check back in with Mrs. Jones. After the students completed the Winter screeners, she noticed that a few of her students were ready for more advanced activities to meet their instructional needs. She knows that each student’s screener results have generated a Learning Path that consists of skills the students are ready to learn. Mrs. Jones develops a small group rotation schedule that includes weekly time for this group of students to work on these activities.

Mrs. Jones considered more than the screener results when developing this plan. She also took into consideration how independent each student is and their comfort level with technology. She strategically partnered the students so they could support each other.

Over the first weeks of this plan, Mrs. Jones took time to introduce these students to parts of the Individualized Learning Plan screens. She also shared step-by-step videos with this group to prepare them for success. At the end of each week, Mrs. Jones takes a few minutes to meet with each of these four students and talk through their progress, offer support when they struggle with a specific activity, and celebrate their successes.

The Classworks Universal Screeners are administered online. Mrs. Jones reminded her students about this type of assessment by modeling how to answer multiple-choice questions. She spends time talking about the purpose of the screener and why it’s important to take time with each question. Mrs. Jones’ students are familiar with rotating to different stations during their small group instructional time. The assessment plan takes advantage of this strength by incorporating the process of completing the screener into the station schedule during the 2-week testing window. Mrs. Jones used the table below to map out when students will complete the Reading/ELA and Mathematics screeners.

Mrs. Jones considered more than the screener results when developing this plan. She also took into consideration how independent each student is and their comfort level with technology. She strategically partnered the students so they could support each other. Over the first weeks of this plan, Mrs. Jones took time to introduce these students to parts of the Individualized Learning Plan screens. She also shared step-by-step videos with this group to prepare them for success.

At the end of each week, Mrs. Jones takes a few minutes to meet with each of these four students and talk through their progress, offer support when they struggle with a specific activity, and celebrate their successes.