Academic Monitoring-School-based ILT Redelivery

Open Ended

Since your last training on academic monitoring, what is one specific adjustment you’ve made to your monitoring or feedback routines during independent practice? How has this change impacted student learning or your ability to catch misconceptions in real time?

As you work through this presentation, I recommend jotting down a few notes along the way. There will be some detailed questions coming up, and having your own notes handy will help you feel confident and prepared to answer them.

Open Ended

In your own words, how would you describe the main goals of today’s academic monitoring refresher? What do you think we hope you’ll be able to do differently or more effectively after this session?

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How can academic monitoring contribute to improving student outcomes in the classroom?

Multiple Choice

Why is it important for teachers to actively monitor student learning during instruction?

• To ensure every student is seen and misunderstandings are addressed

• To complete lessons faster

• To reduce the amount of homework

• To avoid classroom management issues

Multiple Choice

What is the main purpose of academic monitoring in the classroom?

• To discipline students

• To give targeted, concise feedback to every student during practice

• To grade assignments

• To observe student behavior

Open Ended

Describe how a teacher might adjust their academic monitoring plan 'in the moment' based on student needs.

Multiple Select

Which of the following are required steps for effective academic monitoring?

• Teacher created exemplar

• A tracking form

• Pre-selected tracking codes

• Random classroom observation

Fill in the Blank

A teacher created exemplar is NOT just an ___ key.

Multiple Choice

What is the purpose of 'Break It Down' questions in academic monitoring?

• To give students the correct answer immediately

• To guide students to the correct answer by providing hints and context

• To ignore student mistakes

• To make the lesson harder

Open Ended

Explain how scaffolding is used in the 'Break It Down' technique to support student learning.

Multiple Choice

What is one key reason the 'Break It Down' strategy helps keep students motivated?

• It emphasizes student success over failure

• It focuses only on mistakes

• It discourages participation

• It ignores errors

Fill in the Blank

From the academic monitoring tracking document, determine the percent ___ for the class.

Open Ended

Compare the use of a paper-based academic monitoring template and a technology-based template for tracking student progress. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?

Multiple Choice

Why is it important to use consistent norming codes for marking student papers, according to the teacher feedback?

• It creates efficiency and allows quick feedback

• It makes marking more complicated

• It reduces student motivation

• It increases conversation time

Multiple Select

Which of the following are necessary components for effective academic monitoring, based on the images?

• Having the exemplar in hand

• Using a pen for marking

• Tracking percent mastery

• Posting consistent norming codes

Multiple Choice

Which code should be used if a student provides weak or missing cited evidence in their English Language Arts work?

• R

• A

• CE

• CO

Multiple Select

According to the slides, what are two benefits of giving emerging students additional time before checking their work?

• It allows teachers to leave early.

• It helps students embrace struggle and work independently.

• It guarantees work to check as soon as circulating.

• It reduces the need for teacher intervention.

Open Ended

Explain why it is important to check the work of 'fast finishers' first during academic monitoring.

Fill in the Blank

Position your scanning points so you see the full room of students in ___ seconds and verify that all are continuing to work.

Multiple Choice

Based on the example pathway, which group of students should the teacher check first when circulating the classroom?

• Most Emerging

• High

• Emerging

• Med/High

Open Ended

List two necessary components of academic monitoring mentioned in the recap slide.

Open Ended

What are some activities or behaviors you observe in the classroom environment shown in the video?

Open Ended

After writing a paragraph, what are two important things you should do to improve its clarity and coherence?

Multiple Choice

What is academic monitoring formerly known as?

• Targeted teaching

• Exit Ticketing

• Aggressive Monitoring

• Progressive Coaching

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT a recommended step for reviewing and revising a paragraph according to the image?

• Check for awkward phrasing or grammatical errors

• Ensure all sentences relate to the topic sentence

• Skip reading your paragraph aloud

• Get feedback from a peer or mentor

Multiple Choice

In which phase of GRR should academic monitoring begin?

• I do

• We do

• You do

• Exit slip

Multiple Choice

A teacher has high-quality curriculum, but students show consistent misconceptions during independent practice. Based on the academic monitoring framework, what should the teacher adjust first?

• Create more rigourous homework

• Eliminate student student discussion

• Adjust the exemplar and feedback path

• Add more exit tickets only

Multiple Choice

If a teacher is wondering about Academic Monitoring and asks themselves, "How do I know I'm monitoring the right skills?" Based on the frameworks presented, what is the appropriate response?

• Use whatever feels most natural.

• Focus only on student errors.

• Align skills to the exemplar and standard using the tracking document.

• Ask students what they want feedback on.

Fill in the Blank

By the end of the session, teachers should be able to ___ gaps in student understanding and provide timely feedback.

Open Ended

Reflecting on the session, how do you think academic monitoring can help address student misunderstandings during instruction?

Please direct any questions to your department chair. Thank you.