Teaching and Learning in CCSD#1

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IXL Science and Social Studies

The district has paid for IXL science and social studies for grades 6-8 as well as ELA and Math!   Have you tried Group Jam in IXL?  Students can work on the same IXL questions at the same time.  You can adjust the difficulty level if you wish.  You can use Group Jam for collaboration (form small groups where students work out the questions together) or use Leaderboard to have a healthy class competition.

Formative

• What is it?  Powerful online platform that allows teachers to create formative assessments.  Students can respond to questions in real-time; teachers can give instant feedback. 
• The data analysis on this tool is amazing!  See which questions were a struggle for students.  See which standard students definitely understood and which need some additional re-teaching.    
• Create a variety of questions!  Use the library to find questions already created: can search by standard, topic, DOK level, etc… 
• Share assessments with other teachers on your team! See data from all students in your PLC team to adapt your instruction.
• Upload a pdf and it will transcribe those questions into a digital format!
• It auto-grades!  What a time-saver for those level 2 questions! 
• You can embed documents, pdfs, reading passages, padlets, edpuzzles, desmos, quizlet, google docs, powerpoints, thinglinks, youtube, etc… 
• The best news is that the district has paid for this tool for K-12!  You should have your students rostered to you (via Clever) and you can assign formatives right now! 

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