Miscellaneous
"My Students" section
What is the area called where I add, drop, share and edit students?
Goals, Preferences, and Skills
What does GPS stand for?
Provide baseline data for academic skills and monitor progress over a period of time.
What is the purpose of the Benchmark Assessments?
Level of support necessary for student success
What does the differentiated level identify?
Shows what the student knows before instruction and what have they learned following instruction.
What is the purpose of the Checkpoints?
The section with over 1000 books with text-to-speech capabilities
What is the n2y library?
The main purpose of the GPS.
What is data collection?
2 - 4x a year
What is the suggested administration for Benchmark Assessments?
Natural Cues
What are directions and instructions that are naturally part of the presentation?
2 x a month
What is the suggested administration for Checkpoints?
A document with all the current data from the GPS assessments and tools that is ideal to take to an IEP meeting or to look at when first receiving a new student.
What is the Student Summary Report?
Assessment in the GPS used to include student voice as part of transition plans.
What is the transition planning tool?
Reading Level Assessment
What is the Benchmark Assessment that identifies a student's independent, instructional and frustration reading level?
Learners identified as "Participatory" (in need of Level 1 support)
Who are the students that require the maximum support within instructional tasks and who are not making consistent and reliable choices?
1 section: Combined content, reading, and mathematics
What is the number of checkpoint assessments for a student with Level 1 supports?
Adding this when entering a new student ensures clean data and avoids duplicating data.
What is the Student ID number?
Completing this is the key to opening the assessments in the GPS.
What is an Observational Profile?
Emerging Skills
What are the Benchmark assessments generally intended for Learners with Level 1 supports?
Active Communication Response
What is the method of communicating choice for a student with Level 1 supports?
4 sections:
Content
Reading
Mathematics
Word Recognition
What is the number of checkpoint assessments for a student with Level 2 or 3 supports?
Teachers should be teaching with the grade band that matches this, not the developmental age of the student.
What is chronological age?
Based on the student's IEP goals, you use this feature to make connections to standards, benchmark and checkpoint data, monthly lessons and News-2-You/Symbolstix PRIME.
What is Individual Skill Tracking?
Tracking Skills
What helps teachers identify benchmarks to use based on targeted skills?
Differentiated Tasks
What are the realistic expectations for including all learners in each monthly lesson?
RED: Emerging (Intensive Intervention)
YELLOW: Steady (Knowledge Development)
GREEN: Advanced (Skill Mastery)
What are the three levels of acquisition in the Skills Analysis section of the Checkpoint data?