7/12/2023 0 Comments Ready maker oneSarasota County school district officials recently released a video showing how children go first to test on i-Ready software, then spend time with teachers and assistants better equipped than ever before to tackle specific subject areas where students exhibit the greatest need. i-Ready works precisely by empowering teachers to steer students in the best academic direction. That’s valuable information to educators dealing with a variety of skill and insight levels within any given class.īut Selvaggi also stresses his goal isn’t to replace educators with instructional lessons. The assessment software seeks not so much to grade children’s efficiency as to discover each student’s individual proficiencies. “This gives teachers unprecedented information about those children,” says Selvaggi. Most importantly, i-Ready helps students digest and explore those subjects they need to learn the most about to succeed in modern education and future careers. Not everyone, it seems, finds Plory that cute.īut Curriculum Associates, the industry leaders behind the diagnostic software being introduced in classrooms across Florida, promises the digital i-Ready tools will better equip teachers and pupils. Public education advocate Thomas Ultican wrote on his blogthat i-Ready “drains money from classrooms, applies federally supported failed learning theories and undermines good teaching.” Worst of all? “Children hate it.” We didn’t need another ‘program’ which essentially ups the testing volume again for students.” In a September feature in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Manatee County education activist Bridget Mendel called i-Ready “crap” and criticized the digital tool for encouraging educators to plop kids in front of a screen instead of keeping their attention in class.Ī parent group in Volusia County raised concerns about i-Ready contributing to over-testing of students, with one parent commenting, “Call me crazy, but I trust my teachers to know if my child is where they need to be. The program, which prepares students to excel at demanding sets of academic standards put in place by the Florida Legislature, inspires the same type of pushback as the high-stakes testing environment it seeks to ease. It sometimes leaves parents more disoriented and confused than they feel trying to help a child do Common Core math homework.ĭevelopers of i-Ready deal with a share of skepticism from parents angry about student screen time. With evolving educational standards and digital natives filling the seats in Florida classrooms, the ways students learn and get assessed changes in dizzying ways. It’s imperative though for students, facing more rigorous learning standards than ever as they prepare to enter a global workforce start, to have more rigorous, personalized programs that support 21st century learning.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |