Teachers use Elements™. Here are what they shared with us are their top issues are and how Elements™ helps with deal with these issues.
- Targeted classroom instruction: By reviewing individual student data, teachers are able to differentiate instruction for each student and/or group of student in order to truly provide individualized instruction.
- Lack of time: Elements™ allows for increased efficiency of the educators by providing a platform by which instructional and curricular resources, activities, unit plans, lesson plans, curriculum maps, standards alignment documents may all be tied to state standards and stored for easy access. No more digging through folders and file cabinets.
- Utilizing staff strengths: By reviewing data during data meetings, teachers are able to determine where staff strengths are and capitalize on these by modifying pacing guides and allow teachers with the strongest strengths on certain standards teach these standards to all students.
- Parent confidence: Providing “proof” of a student’s progress or lack thereof is a key issue in presenting a student’s case to parents. Thinkgate’s Elements™ provides accurate data that can be used to improve the relationship between parents and teachers.
- Job security: Good teachers are not only hard to find, they’re harder to keep. If a teacher knows how they’re doing on a continuing basis, they can take action to improve student performance, the key measure of teacher effectiveness. Thinkgate’s Elements™ resolves the trend of extracting data from the classroom, by allowing a continuous feedback loop to personnel who can take action.