Section A: Readiness Screeners Section B: Data Reports Section C: Progress Monitoring

1. Section A: Readiness Screeners Section B: Data Reports Section C: Progress Monitoring

2. Essential Training Question 1 and 2:Wherewill you find DELTA MATH progress monitoring resources? How can they DELTA MATH progress monitoring be organized?

3. Program Guide C1 • Follow along with the steps in this program guide during the online demonstration. • Take 2 minutes to find the printable progress monitoring resources and labels for at least one grade level. Handout

4. Essential Training Question 3:How can DELTA MATH progress monitoring resources be used to support the first dayof intervention for each readiness standard?

5. Program Guide C2 • Designed for students identified as struggling. • The first day of intervention for each readiness standard. • Review, reflect, assess and then regroup students based on their instructional needs. Handout

6. Step 1 • The Guided Review provides: • A learning target to focus student effort • A review of the screener problems • Consider using a think-aloud strategy to review each problem • Focus on the most relevant details: content, vocabulary and/or format

7. Step 2 • Student’s must understand their progress toward a learning target. • Verbal/Written

8. Step 3 • Quick Check A • Printable formative assessment to measure progress towards the learning target. • Similar to screener: Content, vocabulary, format and time • Different than screener: More problems and higher percent to demonstrate mastery

9. Step 4 • Students correct Quick Check A for immediate feedback. • Students record progress on their Growth Chart to develop intrinsic motivation. • Note: If time is limited, Quick Checks can be corrected by an adult. 2/23/10 2

10. Step 5 • Regroup students for the next intervention session : • Below goal  explicit lesson • High level of teacher/student interaction. (How to do the math) • Met goal  targeted practice • Low level of teacher/student interaction. (Games or other activities) 2/23/10 2

11. Essential Training Question 4:What is recommended during interventions based onDelta Math data?

12. Researcher Recommendations Intervention Recommendations… • Explicit and systematic • Visual representations of mathematical ideas PreviousHandout IES Practice Guide, 2009

13. Essential Training Question 5:Recommendation 3:What isexplicit instruction?

14. Explicit Instruction • The National Mathematics Advisory Panel defines explicit instruction as follows (2008, p. 23): • “Teachers provide clear modelsfor solving a problem type using an array of examples.” • “Students receive extensive practice in use of newly learned strategies and skills.” • “Students are provided with opportunities to think aloud (i.e., talk through the decisions they make and the steps they take).” • “Students are provided with extensive feedback.” IES Practice Guide, “Assisting Struggling Students with Mathematics, p. 21

15. Essential Training Question 6:How can you plan for a 30-minute explicit intervention lesson?

16. Program Guide C3 • Beginning • Learning targets and relevance • Middle • I do, we do, you do • End • Review critical content • Monitor Progress • Regroup when possible Handout

17. Focused Discussion: Planning Template • Planning for day 2 and beyond • Beginning • All identified students • Middle • Break into groups (if necessary) • Lesson (I do, We do) • Practice (You do) • End • All identified students Handout

18. Essential Training Question 7:Recommendation 3: What is systematic instruction?

19. Systematic Instruction • Instruction should gradually build proficiency by introducing concepts in a logical order. • For example…provide interventions on place value before providing interventions on adding and subtracting two digit numbers with regrouping. IES Practice Guide, “Assisting Struggling Students with Mathematics, p. 22

20. Systematic Instruction • Delta Math grade level readiness standards are sequenced to provide systematic instruction.

21. Essential Training Question 8:Recommendation 5:Whatare types of visual representations of mathematical ideas?

22. IES Practice Guide – Example 10 • Dots can be arranged in groups of 5 and 10. • The smaller number is decomposed to make 10 and some more.

23. IES Practice Guide – Example 5 • Ten sticks can be used to show groups of ten.

24. IES Practice Guide – Example 6 • Fraction strips can be used to show equal parts in relation to the whole.

25. IES Practice Guide – Example 6 • Sticks and cups represent algebraic constants and variables and can be used to represent actions while solving equations.

26. Essential Training Question 9 and 10:Where can you find resources for explicit lessons and targeted practice?How can lesson and practice resources be organized?

27. Team Time: Focused Exploration • Work with a partner to explore Program Guide C4. • Summary: • How many folders will you have for each readiness standard? Handout

28. Essential Training Question 11:How can you schedule systematic interventions based on Delta Math data?

29. Program Guide C5 • Schedule interventions in the order of Delta Math readiness standards to prepare students for grade-level instruction. • Steps 1-3 help you find the scheduling template. Handout

30. Step 4 • Critical Actions prior to the first intervention for each readiness standard. • Screen Students • Identify unexpected student data • Validate unexpected results using Quick Check D • Create the final list of struggling students Handout

31. Step 5 • Schedule the first day of Delta Math interventions for each readiness standard. • Most readiness standards will need between 4 to 8 30-minute sessions. Handout

32. Essential Training Question 12:When should targeted practice on Delta Math readiness standards be discontinued?

33. Using Quick Check Data • Remember, Day 1 for each readiness standard begins with all students identified as struggling. • Below goal  Explicit Lesson • Meet goal Targeted Practice • Meet goal 3+ times Exit Handout

34. Team Time: Focused Discussion • Review and discuss program guides C1 through C5 with your team. • If your team still has unanswered questions, please write them down on sticky notes and place them in the parking lot.