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3-5 children receive instruction from a teacher focusing on skills specific to those children.
What are small groups?
Not all children attend this before coming to kindergarten.
A meeting that last several hours during which teacher are provided training.
What is professional development?
The step in the data-driven instruction cycle for which children are administered assessment(s) to gather base-line data about a child's skills.
What is collecting data or step 1?
Something teachers do not have enough of and Ignite provides back to the teacher.
What is time?
Games or activities children complete independently or in small groups that provide them with opportunities to practice skills while a teacher is working with a small group. Typically used for literacy and math.
What are stations?
What are multiple curriculums?
A meeting of all employees on a campus used for providing updates, team building, professional development, and other things relevant to all employees.
What are staff meetings
The step in the data-driven instruction cycle during which teachers provide individualized instruction to children or groups of children.
What is teaching or step 4?
A type of assessment that is constantly occurring and provides teachers data in-between major assessments.
What is formative assessment?
The process of using student data to plan instruction.
What is data-driven instruction?
Required data collections by the state, district, and campus that all use different tools and methods for collecting data.
What are multiple assessments?
A meeting attended by teachers of the same grade-level to jointly write lesson plans.
What is an Instructional Planning Meeting or Team Meeting?
The step in the data-driven instruction cycle during which teachers review data that has been collected to determine a child's current skill level.
What is analyzing data or step 2?
What is one more thing?
An approach to teaching literacy in which children receive multiple types of instruction in both reading and writing.
What is balanced literacy?
The number of standards a teachers has to cover across multiple subject areas within one year.
What is over 300?
A meeting between a teacher and a child's family.
What is a parent-teacher conference?
The step of the data-driven instruction cycle during which an assessment is used to understand if the instruction provided to a child supported them in developing new skills.
What is re-assessing or step 5?
Ignite's child login, use of choice, and avatar rewards promotes this.
What is independent child use?
An instructional model in which the teacher models a skill for the child, then the teacher and the child do the skill together, and then the child does the skill independently.
All children, no matter where they entered kindergarten, need to have this skill to be ready for 1st grade.
What is reading?
A meeting during which teachers of the same grade-level or content area meet to design assessments, review data, and plan instruction.
What is a professional learning community?
The step of the data-driven instruction cycle during which teachers use data to develop instructional activities to provide to children.
What is planning or step 3?
The selling point of Ignite's scope and sequence.