How do you keep tack of your students' progress?

I am currently in my 2nd year as resource room teacher.

Last year I had trouble tracking their progress toward their goals.

How do you keep track?

Do you include only your work toward their goals? classroom work? Conference with other teachers?

And do you use a spreadsheet, binder etc.

Any and all help would be appreciated! TIA

Re: How do you keep tack of your students' progress?

We are required to use Data folios in my school. (This is done for every class, ELA, Math, even art)
Each class has a binder and in the binder there is
*a spreadsheet with the results of all their tests (Reading Assessments, predictives, practice state exams, etc. - there is about 1 per month)
*each child has their own form - we record their goals (reading and writing skills), observation notes and on the back of the sheet there is a space for conferencing notes.
*we also have a spreadsheet to record their pre and post test scores for the skills we review each week.

It is really time consuming - there has got to be an easier way! I am supposed to be piloting an e-datafolio through ARIS, but I haven't heard anything else about it yet

Re: How do you keep tack of your students' progress?

I've been doing this for 15 years and STILL haven't found a system that works for me. I would just try to gather materials unrelated to what's going on in the classroom, but that touch on goals, stick them in a folder, and every so often, pull one out, have the student complete it, and see if progress was made. That becomes the data. In the meanwhile, try to work on those goals within the curriculum and classwork.

I've also done checklists and when I can use classwork, I make copies. Not everything you do on a daily basis will touch on all goals, but find a way to make it work.

ETA: I keep everything in a folder, one for each student.

Message edited 9/17/2011 9:03:41 PM.

Re: How do you keep tack of your students' progress?

I make goal tracking charts that I keep in binders for each student...They have helped me the past few years to be more organized and to keep the data very formally so if I was even called into a meeting and questioned, I could pull it right out.