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(Name of Group You Are Presenting to). MOTIVATED STUDENTS – MOTIVATED DATA. (Rep’s name) (Title) Learning Through Sports, Inc. Q: How do we MOTIVATE unmotivated students to give their best effort academically?.
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(Name of Group You Are Presenting to) MOTIVATED STUDENTS – MOTIVATED DATA (Rep’s name)(Title) Learning Through Sports, Inc.
Q: How do we MOTIVATE unmotivated students to give their best effort academically? Q: How do we tell the difference between lack of EFFORTand lack of KNOWLEDGE? Best Effort = Best Results = Best Data
A: One answer lies in the profile of today’s…Digital Native Student Q: How do we MOTIVATE unmotivated students? • Accustomed to receiving information quickly • Multi-taskers • Prefer graphics before text • Thrive on instant gratification and frequent rewards • Prefer games to serious work.
Often assisting thedigital natives are the Digital Immigrants • Learning to adapt to the new environment • Digital immigrant “accent” • Struggle to teach a population who speaks an entirely new language
The Kid’s College Solution • Engages and motivates digital natives to learn and achieve. • Simplifies the delivery of online curriculum and differentiated instruction for digital immigrants.
The Concept of Kid’s College Students must correctly answer math and reading questions aligned to core state standards in order to earn access to their favorite sports video game. Along the way, adaptive technology automatically remediates and accelerates the student as needed.
Teacher selects number of correct answers required for game time.
Game points update the KC Contest leaderboard website. www.kccontest.com
Zac’s Story A 5th Grader Named Zac… • 11-year-old boy who likes sports and video games but doesn’t really like school • Zac is a latch key kid • Zac doesn’t like doing homework • Zac likes watching TV and playing video games so . . . • Zac’s teacher and parents come up with a plan… and introduce him to Kid’s College!
Zac’s Superintendent’s District Gap Report Content Strands Your Schools Red/Yellow/Green Identification
Zac’s Principal’s School Gap Report Content Strands Your Classrooms
Zac’s Teacher’s Report Content Strands Your Students
Zac’s Story Grade Level Performance Content Strand Sequential Progression
Zac’s Story Totals for Zac • 5,217 questions in 8 months • 72% answered after-school (3 p.m.) • 1,043 minutes of work
Rashad’s Story • Elementary student in a Title I School • Difficult to motivate • Frequently disruptive/behavior problem • Rashad’s First 5 Months Using Kid’s College: • Answered over 7,400 reading and math questions • Increased 3 grade-levels in specific skills • Reading Words Per Minute up from 96 to 130 • Consistent top scorer • 81% of Rashad’s time spent playing Kid’s College occurred after school hours.
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Class Instructional Spotlight Report Listick 4th (4th Grade) – Instructional Spotlight Report May 7, 2007 through May 13, 2007 Math Groupings
Customized individual lessons and study guides
Alabama Study • Research findings support the positive impact of Kid’s College on AYP growth in Alabama schools. • Implementation has grown from 5-site pilot in 2006 to 219 sites in 2009-2010. • Students answered over 40 MILLION standards-based questions in 2009-2010 school year.
KC Top Ten • Standards-Based • Assessment • Adaptive Technology • Self-Paced • Educational Hints • Customized Offline Workbooks • Web Accessible • Practice Test Format • Motivating Sports Games • Parent Involvement
More Proven Results • Chicago Public School District • Schools using Kid’s College outscored the district by an avg. of 9.8% in math on ISAT • Benjamin Mays Academy – 5 year period using KC – 60% of students moved from Meets to Exceeds in math and 51% in reading • State of Mississippi Schools using Kid’s College exceeded the average growth in the overall state QDI (7.2 points compared to 5.2 points) • San Antonio ISD High users of Kid’s College indicated marked improvement (141 points on math and 115 on reading)on TAKS scores from 2008 to 2009, and these students exceeded the Met Standards on the vertical scale.
The power of anengaging learning tool…Helps students overcome individual academic obstacles andimproves AYP results…by helping to deliver differentiated instruction based on real-time assessment and MOTIVATED DATA
QUESTIONS? (Rep’s name, Title) 1-866-552-9192, extension (####) (email)@learningthroughsports.comwww.learningthroughsports.com