Do you need documentation to show that you are monitoring student progress regularly?
Our campus required teachers to use Aggressive Monitoring for the past several years to track student progress. I thought that I could accurately communicate to my Admin team how each of my students was doing before this requirement. At first, I was not receptive to this tracking because it was one more thing to do.
While I already felt confident in my ability to adjust instruction on the fly and give immediate feedback to students, I could not always remember each of their individual journeys long term. I focused on the result, which was tied to an assignment score.
I needed to incorporate this monitoring while doing it in a way that felt authentic. I created a form that made it not only easy for me to use but made tracking student growth measurable and actionable.
Through this, my Aggressive Monitoring form was born! This is a form that you can use to track student progress with goals, standards, or anything else objective-based that you want to track. There are SO many possibilities!!
I found myself a believer in the power of recording my observations during guided and independent practice. I have included a few examples below!
Forming small groups for targeted instruction is easy with the data collected on the Aggressive Monitoring forms.
You can also use these forms to track progress during small group instruction.
I keep a stack of these on a clipboard to have easy access to them while I am up monitoring and recording data.
I copy the one that I need (front and back) to track multiple goals within a class period.
You can also store these in a data binder for documentation.
There are a few different versions of the forms included so that you have options, depending on your class size.
The way that I see it...
Monitoring student achievement is a vital component in teaching today, as it always has been. These forms help me to do a better job of remembering their actions, behaviors, and questions during class. This data should be considered in conjunction with a mastery score on any given assignment. To me, this is the other piece of the puzzle. And perhaps...the most important.
