Inservice

O-Gorman High School E-Metric and Achievement Series Training**
 * October 13th


 * From 8-11:30am Joan Mahoney, Mary Lingberg and I led an in-service for all of the 3rd - 6th grade elementary school teachers and counselors in the Catholic School system. There were approximately 40 teachers who attended the training. **


 * To start the morning off Mrs. Mahoney demonstrated E-Metric to the teachers. The teachers were then given time to examine their data. They were asked to first look at their data as an individual class, then as a grade level in their schools, and finally as a whole school. After the break Mary and I showed the teachers the ins and outs of Achievement Series and explained how we use this data to drive our lessons. We then helped teachers create their own tests. **

Overall the teachers were receptive to what we all had to say and I think that they found the information we had to share useful. Whether or not they are choosing to implement their new knowledge is uncertain. In our school it is still the same teachers who are taking the achievement series tests; we did not recruit and new users. I continue to receive e-mails from other teachers in the district who have questions on how to perform certain tasks regarding e-metric and or achievement series so that makes me happy that we have gained some new users. At least I was able to let our teachers know my feelings on data driven instruction and I was able to show them the benefits of using the program. Now all of our teachers grades 3-6 know that the program is available for their use. Some of us would like to see our teachers do what we have been doing during this grant. We’d like for each teacher to pick their lowest standard and administer at least one achievement series pretest and posttest for that specific standard. It'd be a great addition to our school improvement plan.
 * __ Thoughts and Reflections __**