TEACHER'S TOOLKIT OVERVIEW
The Teacher’s Toolkit software application provides teachers and administrators the ability to perform administrative and curriculum tasks associated with the Cognitive Tutor Software such as creating classes, resequencing units in a curriculum, and generating class and detailed student reports. Several features and user interface enhancements are new.
Curriculum Browser
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Custom Curriculum Advisor
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Class Progress Screen
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Building a Custom Curriculum
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Including Assessments in Custom Curriculum
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Resequencing & Customized Curricula
Our flexible sequencing allows administrators to build a custom curriculum to meet the special needs of districts or schools. Units can be re-ordered, added and deleted, and new sequences named and published for use in the classroom.
Curriculum Browser
New for 2009-2010!
The Curriculum Browser is a useful tool for instructional planning. The Curriculum Browser feature allows you to view and print detailed information about Cognitive Tutor curricula, including unit, section, and lesson content. Furthermore, you now have the ability to launch Cognitive Tutor lessons in an "INSTRUCTOR PREVIEW" mode. Finally, the Curriculum Browser feature allows you to tag a list of "favorite" units in Cognitive Tutor Curricula. Tagged units can be viewed in the Create Custom Curriculum Tool and inserted into a custom curriculum sequence. Once a custom curriculum sequence is published it will appear in the Curriculum Browser for reference.
Custom Curriculum Advisor
New for 2009-2010!
The Custom Curriculum Advisor is a new feature enhancement in the Create Custom Curriculum Tool. It provides real-time feedback when you plan and construct a custom curriculum sequence from Cognitive Tutor Curricula. It identifies pre-requisite units, redundancies acrossunits, or dependencies between units of math instruction. You can use this data to adjust your curriculum sequence before you save and publish it for use in your classroom.
View Student Activity
New for 2009-2010!
Periodically, a teacher may want to review student work in the Cognitive Tutor Software. The ability to look at how a student is working to solve a current math problem may provide some additional insights about how to support his/her learning. In particular, this feature may be useful in a lab or virtual learning environment for assisting a student who is struggling to master a concept or skill and provide an opportunity to address a misconception.
Assessments
Automated assessments deliver pre- and post-tests that automatically tie to custom-sequenced curricula. The pretest diagnostically determines areas of student strength and weakness, and can optionally be configured to prescribe more work through the curriculum in areas of weakness. The assessments also produce multiple variants of selected problems, so different students receive the same content, but with different problems.
Reports
Updated for 2009-2010!
Teacher's Toolkit Reports cover a variety of information including time spent in lessons, number of problems completed, etc. Each report provides a different view of student data.
New to the 2009-2010 version of the software is a set of four Assessment Reports that illustrate performance on pre- and post-tests in the Cognitive Tutor software: Student Report by Problem, Class Report by Problem, Student Report by Topic, and Class Report by topic.
Finally, the Teacher's Toolkit provides an easy-to-use interface for performing administrative tasks associated with the Cognitive Tutor software. Such tasks typically include:
- Adding and deleting instructors
- Creating new class rosters
- Tracking student progress as they work
- Printing class summaries and individual student reports
- Maintaining class rosters (changing student names, transferring and removing students)
- Restarting and skipping problems
- Changing a student’s placement within the curriculum
- Deleting class rosters
