In this article, the author, Kathleen McLane, explains important items of consideration when a school decides to utilize student progress monitoring (SPM) to track the progress that students are making in a respective school. McLane categorized the items of consideration into three general areas, or issues, including: goal oriented issues, staff-oriented issues, and logistical and administrative issues. For goal-oriented issues, McLane stressed for readers to considers several decisions to make to better decide what SPM format would best be utilized for the school. Among those decisions it includes: determining the level of implementation for SPM at a given school (such as in specific classes, blocks of classes, or all of the classes in a
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The author outlined in simple and basic terms about how school administration would go about this through examining the goals that they would use SPM to address as well as addressing how this would be incorporated for the staff to use and the logistical and training needed to make SPM successful for schools that chose to adopt …show more content…
I thought the author’s point was valid yet could have been further supported by giving thoughtful suggestions of different school environment models and how to consider making SMP fit into the setup of a given school environment. As an example, again, with my school in particular, we have an independent study program setup where our students normally come in once a week for at least one hour. Our meeting times with the students are precious and one way we as teachers at our school address the intervention that is needed from doing SPM is by devoting our Wednesday mornings as essentially office hours for extra academic intervention support and teaching for the students who need it and come in to get the extra help. This is just one example in how to integrate SMP into routine classroom activities (as far as schedules are concerned). Obviously every school is different (including in terms of setup) and may have different answers for this, but again it would have been helpful if the author again offered a few examples for suggestion, especially for the traditional K-12 public schools for
The author outlined in simple and basic terms about how school administration would go about this through examining the goals that they would use SPM to address as well as addressing how this would be incorporated for the staff to use and the logistical and training needed to make SPM successful for schools that chose to adopt …show more content…
I thought the author’s point was valid yet could have been further supported by giving thoughtful suggestions of different school environment models and how to consider making SMP fit into the setup of a given school environment. As an example, again, with my school in particular, we have an independent study program setup where our students normally come in once a week for at least one hour. Our meeting times with the students are precious and one way we as teachers at our school address the intervention that is needed from doing SPM is by devoting our Wednesday mornings as essentially office hours for extra academic intervention support and teaching for the students who need it and come in to get the extra help. This is just one example in how to integrate SMP into routine classroom activities (as far as schedules are concerned). Obviously every school is different (including in terms of setup) and may have different answers for this, but again it would have been helpful if the author again offered a few examples for suggestion, especially for the traditional K-12 public schools for