Student Progress

 Keeping Track of how your middle schooler is doing in their day to day learning can be challenging.  Too often the answer to ‘how are you doing in school’ is met with dissatisfying and non-descriptive answer of ‘fine’.  To help add clarity to your child’s progress within the 6th grade, please familiarize yourself with the structures and resources created to allow students to take ownership of their learning. 

Topics and goals that are covered in class.

· Students will have access to our online curriculum Desmos.  This is a platform where students can find a link to their online classwork. This is also where studnets can find 'practice' slides that help students practice and reinforce the concepts learned in classwork.

Tip: Desmos is an excellent communication piece between the classroom and home.  Instead of asking, ‘what did you learn in school today?’, have your student open Desmos and teach you the concept by accessing the classwork for that day (or past days).  Also, look at the standard they earned while you’re there. 

Where the concepts introduced can be practiced. 

Students will use both online and traditional tools to explore mathematical ideas.

· Online Desmos platform is where students will work on classwork and practice.

·Mathematical Manifests are your student’s place to practice concepts learned in class as well as catalogue their progress.  They should have their Manifests with them at school and at home 100% of the time. 

· Mathematical Manifests are generally organized as follows:

o   Paper Lessons (class work): Found in the front of the folder in the order that they are introduced.

o   Notes section:  Found in the back of the folder often a different color.  Students are expected to complete the notes as they progress through the unit.  It can be referred to on the unit test.

o   Stamp Logs: Logs are kept in the back of the mathematical manifest.  This page indicates the completion of practice by a stamp.  A stamp indicates the practice has been completed and turned in.

How well they are progressing

· To find out how well you student is progressing you should refer to their Target Practice.  The Target Practice is aligned to the learning goal in class. They are a student’s gauge in how well they are showing evidence of learning relative to each learning goal.  The Target Practice is what you would want to look at if you are determining how well your student is demonstrating proficiency for the learning target.

· Target Practices are given both online and on paper.  To access the online Target Practice, follow the link found in Teams and review it on the computer in Desmos.  Paper Target Practices will also be posted in Desmos, but will be found taped into your students Mathematical Manifest as a record of their learning.

·  Students are encouraged to relearn and retake Target Practices to show proficiency of a learning goal (a score of 3 or higher)