Achieving Success for Kids by Tim L. Adsit

Author:Tim L. Adsit
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781610485920
Publisher: R&L Education

“Set Your Goals High, Then Exceed Them!”

—David J. Schwartz

In addition to the original recommendations from the 1992 symposium mentioned earlier, from my own successful experience I recommend the following as some practical things districts can do immediately in improving student academic achievement for all students of diverse and special-needs backgrounds as well as regular students in all academic areas:

1. Raise academic expectations knowing that students and staff tend to rise to the level of expectation set.

2. Align curriculum to state, national, and world-class content and performance standards so we are teaching what is being tested.

3. Before students take state assessment tests, utilize practice tests and assessments patterned after the same type of tests that students would be expected to take, and develop and implement alternative measures of performance not dependent solely on standardized achievement tests.

4. Improve students’ test-taking skills and abilities.

5. Improve the district’s test administration climate and overall conditions for testing.

6. Provide incentives for students to give their best performance on tests and recognize students who continuously improve above state/national standards.

7. Identify staff development needs in the particular content area and in the area of helping students to increase academic achievement, and target staff development and training to meet identified needs such as learning to use the various state scoring guides with students in the classroom.

8. Planning, developing, implementing, evaluating, and recording student work samples and performance tasks; using student portfolios, levels testing, and authentic student assessment techniques.

9. Aligning state content standards to day-to-day lesson planning and design using Dr. Madeline Hunter’s Instructional Theory into Practice format presented elsewhere in this document.

10. Analyze desegregated test data at the sub-scale/strand level and identify areas in need of improvement. Identify teachers who consistently demonstrate strengths in these sub-scale score areas needing improvement and enlist their support in coaching and mentoring their peers regarding the instructional strategies they are using with students in their classrooms to continuously improve student academic achievement in these areas.

11. Use of technology in the form of computer-assisted instructional learning systems such as Accelerated Reader, which are proven to raise students’ academic performance by as much as 1.5 to 3.0 grade levels per year in basic skills such as reading, math, social studies, and science.

12. Provide remediation and enrichment programs and services for those students who need it.

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