Comparison Matrix of Curriculum Development and Design Software

Standards, Goals and Objectives and Grade Level

The grade level that this program is most successful in and is designed for is Kinder all the way up to 6th grade. The main idea of the program is to help students become masters in the standards and objectives for their grade levels so they will be more successful as they move on to algebra and so forth.

This allows teachers to scaffold based off of students needs, while aligning with the grade levels standards through personal goals for each student to master and become proficient in.

Assessments

ST Math allows teachers to see exactly where there students are and how they are doing in each standard or area. It also shows teachers how much time students are taking to answer each question which can be a good indicator of if the student is guessing or not.

Integrating and Advantages

The game itself is a virtual world like a video game that makes assessments fun. You could use ST Math in the class as an assessment tool, or as a math rotation station to help lower level students get more practice that they need. This is also a great tool to substitute for math homework and get students more excited to work on tasks at hand.

The program empowers students by allowing them to work at there own pace. Prepares them for future math skills by constantly having them solve problems in a virtual game world. It is suitable for ESL learners.

Standards, Goals, Objectives and Grade Level

2-12/Reading

KidBiz grades 2-5

TeenBiz grades 6-8

Empower grades 9-12

Differentiated and tailored text

Custom strategic curriculum aligned to the Hawaii Common Core State Standards. (CCSS). Lessons aligned to grade-level Hawaii science and social studies standards. Daily SBA practice with technology.

Advantages and Integration

Achieve 3000 has deeply differentiated instruction, an adaptive content system that integrates ongoing assessment, engaging nonfiction content, and robust. Linguistic support for struggling students and ESL. Accelerates learning gains and empowers students to build critical college career literacy skills.

Based on decades of scientific research, Achieve3000®'s proven and patented method of online differentiated instruction engages all learners at their individual reading levels and constantly challenges them to improve their literacy skills.

A Universal Screener to target Tiered Instruction.

Assessment

As the student progresses towards 40 activities for the semester, his/her reading abilities are evaluated, & text rigor is increased when progress detected.


Solutions steadily increase students' ability to read, comprehend, apply and communicate information derived from complex text.