At XLIS, our desire is that every student will achieve to their very best. This will look different for individual students. Some make huge progress in a year, while others make progress at a slower rate. The philosophy at XLIS is to be inclusive. This means that a percentage of our students have special learning needs. These students’ data is included in our overall progress data each year. One of the main tools we use to track student progress is MAP or Measure of Academic Progress.
Students from Primary 2 to Middle School 4 take assessments twice a year. Older students take four assessments:
Reading
Language usage
Mathematics
Science
Currently, 16.2 million students across 50,348 schools in 149 countries are using the MAP assessment system. The assessment serves two main purposes. It is an external assessment that shows where our students compare to a large sample of students from China, the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Europe, and the Middle East, about twelve million students. The second and main purpose is that the software identifies skills a student has mastered and what content they are ready to learn. This is extremely helpful for our teachers as it allows teachers to activate prior knowledge before bringing students through the zone of proximal development for learning.
Schedule:
10:30-11:30 Leadership session (A1006)
13:30-2:15 Parents MAP workshop (Blue Dragon)
2:30-4:00 Staff PD (Cafeteria)
XLIS is focused on high achievement for all students and we thank our parent community for joining us in this endeavor.
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Author:
Brian Lalor (Deputy Head of School)
