Teacher’s Bag of Tricks

For those teachers working with ATI assessment software, here are some new tips on reports. View our other post about creating online quizzes.

Development Profile

This report will show the count of students at each achievement level:Learned- got all questions correct (Ready Now- got 2 of 3 correct, Ready Soon, Ready Later- got 1 or 0 correct).

• Login to ATI
• Save your Settings for this year
• Go to Reports
• Click on Development Profile
• Choose your class
• Choose your benchmark library
• Select math or reading
• Click Run Report
• Click on the number of students in a column to see individual names.

Class Development Grid Report

This report will be a pdf file that you can print to see each student’s academic level for all ELSes.

• Click on Class Development Grid Report
• Choose your class
• Choose your benchmark library
• Choose your test
• Click Run Report

Aggregate Multi Test- Risk Detail

This report shows which ELSes are the highest priority for making an impact in achievement. It also is an easy way to get an idea for possible intervention groups.

• Click on Reports
• Click on Aggregate Multi Test
• Choose your class
• Choose your benchmark library
• Select reading or math
• Click Run Report
• Click View Detail
• Click on orange Moderate Risk

Aggregate Multi Test- Benchmark Performance Goals

This report gives you a snapshot of where your entire class is according to the FAME scale for the benchmarks. You can also click on Standards Development Grid for Marana Benchmark… to see the entire class achievement by ELS.

• Click on Reports
• Click on Aggregate Multi Test
• Choose your class
• Choose your benchmark library
• Select reading or math
• Choose Display Benchmark Performance Levels
• Click Run Report
• Click View Detail

Thanks to Lori Franz for the instructions.

Now that the cursory iTunes introduction is out of the way, I can tell you about some great, free content available for download. The University of Southern Florida offers hundreds of children’s stories and classic literature in the form of audiobooks through the Lit2Go service. From Beatrix Potter to Charles Dickens and more, you can find audio files and printable versions for use in independent reading, small group or whole group instruction.

You can find the files in FSU’s iTunes U section in the iTunes store.

For Windows/Mac: iTunes is a must have for music and video on your computer. From wikipedia:

iTunes is a media player, written by Apple Computer, for playing and organizing digital music, video files, and purchasing digital music files in the FairPlay digital rights management format. The iTunes Music Store (also sometimes referred to simply as “iTunes” or “iTMS”) is the component of iTunes through which users can purchase digital music files from within iTunes.

Get it here.