Math Empowers 1
Middletown Township Public Schools
First Grade - 1st Quarter 2016-2017
DREAMBOX HELPFUL HINTS
Assign Focus
New on DreamBox... The Assign Focus feature allows teachers to assign a standard to specific students, a group of students or the whole class. FOR EXAMPLE: You are working on 1.NBT.a1 in class and you would like to assign that to your class. Before assigning, open the STANDARDS tab and select KINDERGARTEN standards, GROUPING view. You may notice that some, or most of your class has not even started K.NBT.a1. Those students should be assigned the kindergarten standard first.
Students will see the blue calendar icon when they log on, indicating they have a specific assignment. Be sure to tell your students to complete those first.
Teachers can view assignments and see if the standard was mastered yet.
Finish Lessons: 100% Complete or 0% Assessed
COMPLETE EVERY LESSON ONCE BEGUN
"Lessons must be completed once started in order for our Intelligent Adaptive Learning™ technology to accurately introduce next best lessons for your student. If your student closes or exits the browser without completing a lesson, DreamBox cannot collect their learning data. The student will need to redo the entire lesson." - Dreambox Best Practices.
Check to see who in your class is finishing lessons and mastering standards. If you have students who are often unable to finish lessons, Dreambox will be extremely slow to adapt to their needs. They must finish the lessons they start in order to get the benefit of this dynamic, adaptive resource.
Headphone Help
*Did you notice the headphone storage in the dollar store shoe bag above?! Do you have any handy tips you would like to share?
Help your students make sense of math.
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Thank You For Reading.. Please Keep in Touch!
Kristine Venneman
Elementary Mathematics Specialist
Bayview Elementary School
First Grade Representative
Email: vennemank@middletownk12.org