Action Points for Teachers

So what should we be doing?

Consider the following suggestions:

**Determine what device students will use to take the STAAR/EOC online. This device (and mouse) should be considered as you plan.**

Action Points for teachers to Consider:

Install the STAAR Online Testing Platform or use the browser version. (This a task for the technology director.)

Have students and teachers experience it ASAP.

What tools are available to them?
What would they tell a friend about them?

Install extensions (more than likely the technology director) that will be allowed for each student. Let students know what they will be allowed to use as an embedded support.
Find spaces and places for students to use the extensions as often as possible. (Idea: Have a smackdown led by students.) As a teacher, you don’t have to know everything about each tool.
Determine what tech skills need to be taught explicitly to students (and teachers) regarding the extensions and/or any hardware (ex: trackpad, mouse buttons, headphone controls (TELPAS)).
Have students return to the SOTP and discover similarities and differences between what they are using as extensions and what is available in the platform.
(Re)Implement/continue a keyboarding program.
Assess students online using embedded supports/extensions:
- Google Forms etc.
- DMAC online-beta
- Eduphoria ($$)
- SchoolCity ($$)
- TFAR
- Edulatstic
- STAAR interim assessments (Delivered via the SOTP)
Determine what needs to be explicitly taught to students about test-taking strategies online vs paper-based strategies.
- How will they annotate on math problems? What is the expectation for how students will “show their work.”
- What adjustments need to be made with reading passages and “bag and tag” processes?
- Using the “choice eliminator.”
Have students return to the SOTP and discover similarities and differences between what they are using as extensions and what is available in the platform. Let students know what they will be allowed to use as an embedded support. (repeat)