Special+Education+Team

Students are in special education based on data.

How realistic are expectations for 100% proficiency?

__**How Data Pertains to Us**__**:**
 * Should we be picking and choosing a specific group of kids to take the PSSA-M?
 * Not having specific data on results of last year's PSSA-M makes it difficult to evaluate

__**Motivation**__:
 * Talk to the kids prior to the test
 * Providing breakfast
 * Bribe them with pizza based on effort
 * Middle school: separating students that aren't trying from the rest of the class
 * Individual teacher-student conferences
 * Practice prompts
 * Compare examples of what a score of 1 looks like and what a score of 4 looks like.
 * Allow them to score their own responses, then sit and score it with them.

__**Curriculum**__:
 * Course in test taking/study skills as an elective? Does it fit somewhere else?
 * Credit for the course?
 * As a staff, we could be consistent across all grade levels in test taking/study skill strategies we teach
 * Test taking strategies
 * Using the 4sight tests to focus on standardized test taking strategies and to find areas of need
 * 4sight data is very useful for 'present levels' in an IEP

__**Instruction**__:
 * During PSSA testing
 * Tests
 * Projects
 * Homework
 * How to show and organize work on the math and writing prompts
 * Explain/write it aloud back to the teacher


 * __How can we help families without access to recources?__**
 * What do we do with our old computers?
 * How can we generate time for students to access technology?
 * Proctor before and after school
 * Promote the public library
 * Homework
 * Must stay after school if they do not complete their homework