Amber+Brooks's+Study+Ladder

Link to: Study Ladder's Website Link to: Our Class Wiki Home

__**What is Study Ladder?**__

Study Ladder is a website that provides additional educational resources to students ranging from grades K-6. It is a neat unique way to reach every student in each and every elementary grade level. This website allows the teacher go on its website and choose different skills, lessons, or tasks and assign them to each student or individual students. Right off the bat, when the students login they are able to choose/create their own avatar. This automatically peaks the student's interests.

Another perk of this website is that it can be accessed at home. So many of the programs that we have students use at home cannot be accessed at school. So often times, the re-teaching and supports that would be nice if they could use at home, can only be accessed at school. Another benefit of this website is that it can be differentiated for each student. This program can be used as a support or enrichment where the kids may need to move on.

__**Want To See It For Yourself?**__

Please feel free to login and see how this works for yourself. I trust that you're not going to be interested in messing around with my student information.

Username: agbrooks@mpsomaha.org Password: amberj01

__**How Educators Can Use** **This**__


 * 1) Teachers can differentiate each task to meet the needs of each student.
 * 2) The assigned tasks can be enrichment or reinforcing a skill.

__**Sample Lesson:**__

We are currently doing Life Science in 5th grade. In our curriculum we go from discussing cells, ecosystems, animal adaptations, etc. I have currently set up a total of 7 tasks that apply to some of the lessons that we have completed in our class. In these tasks, the students watch and complete an activity/presentation. Once they are complete with the presentation, there are corresponding activities that the students have to complete. Sometimes, it's a quiz when they are done with the lesson or sometimes it's an actual hands on activity. We started using this website on 10/7 towards the end of our Life Science. We do have a 5th grade State Assessment in the Spring. I am planning on using this tool as a NeSa review throughout the year. Because Life Science is taught so early on in the year, this will be an amazing tool for them to review some of the skills that were taught in Aug., Sep., Oct..

Amber--I think that this is a great site for Elementary students. One thing I would change about your Wiki would be to create a "sample" teacher account rather than allowing everyone to access your personal account. This is mainly due to the confidentiality of your class roster and such. Granted, yes, we are all honest teachers, but it still might be a good idea to keep your own account personal. Great job though! Jennifer Clark

Amber- This is a great site that has awesome resources, especiall for my SPED kids. Your site is well put together and I'm glad I looked through it. I would agree with Jennifer that you may want to create a page that doesn't have your perosnal information. This might give you peace of mind knowing that confidentiality would be kept and the information of your students or your personal information would be safe. Awesome job and thanks for Sharing. Jesse Kollars