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September 12, 2017
Start the Year Off with OGAP

Remember you have some resources to help you look at student work, plan for instruction and regularly gather information about your students' progress. You have the OGAP Frameworks  you received this summer and the OGAP Item Banks  full of short, focused tasks to use as entrance or exit questions or warm-ups in your classroom. 


Action Item

Here are a few things you can do to help you strengthen your students' mathematical reasoning skills:

  1. Administer and analyze the OGAP Pre-assessment to see what your students understand and the strategies they use to solve problems. Take a look at last month's teacher tip on Pre-assessments here.
  2. Use OGAP items from the  Item Banks, two or more times a week for 10-15 minutes, and do a quick sort to help you make informed instructional decisions.
  3. Use Evidence Collection sheets to keep track of evidence related to the 1) level on the progression of student strategies; 2) errors or underlying issues; and 3) accuracy of solutions.
  4. Meet with your colleagues to examine student work and collaborate around instructional decisions.
We are confident that the strategies above will help to enhance the implementation of your math program!

Did you know?

You can access the OGAP Item Banks online in two ways: find our new searchable OGAP item bank  here ( bookmark it! ) or view the PDFs at  www.ogapmath.com/item-bank .

Also, you can access past issues of OGAP Teacher Tips by visiting  www.ogapmath.com/ogap-teacher-tips-archive.