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4 major influences are 4 major reasons

The four major influences teachers have on student achievement,

 are four big reasons why literatu works for teachers

 

1. personalised feedback 

Good feedback is so important for students and so time consuming for teachers. Referred to as the Yin and Yang of being a teacher, it's fantastic to give students great feedback, but very hard to find the time needed to give it. 

Research says the most important influence a teacher can have on student achievement is personalised feedback. Literatu has sensational marking and feedback tools that work in automatic and manual marking scenarios. Literatu makes it easier and more time efficient for teachers to grade, score and add great feedback to any student work, quickly and easily.

Students receive the feedback instantly. Teachers use the 'scribble' feature to add any amount of feedback, right over the top of the student work, in-situ - handwritten!

2. instructional quality

Literatu delivers any activity onto any device, in minutes giving teachers full capabilities to control the quality and interaction of every 'screen' based student activity. Literatu lets teachers create activities from any digital source as well as transform any of their trusted materials into fully interactive online activities. Even hand written sheets become interactive activities.

Students have immediate access via the cloud, integration with Google or Edmodo in any BYOD context.

Teachers finally have full control content sources, interaction, pedagogy and supporting guidance, ensuring students have access to instructional quality materials.

3. direct instruction

Teachers manage direct and personalised instruction with any student, at any level. Literatu allows teachers to monitor students at detailed levels, as work is completed or is being completed. These interactive features make it easier for teachers to mentor individual performance and outcomes whilst managing larger cohorts of students. 

Live monitoring is very powerful in a remote learning environment where students are working at different levels and pace, at remote locations, all online. Direct instruction and interventions can be quickly added and monitored live.

4. remediation and intervention

This is where Literatu shines. Every activity in Literatu is monitored and measured. Live monitoring shows teachers the result of every question for every student in the class, as the answers are entered. Monitoring happens at both question and student level with immediate teacher feedback on the areas challenging the students the most. This monitoring can be recorded live and viewed at a later time - perfect for homework analysis, tomorrow.

Literatu gives teachers have a complete set of integrated metrics, supporting a breakdown of data across curriculum, class, student and activity. We refer to this as BIG data and Literatu puts it firmly in the hands of teachers. Teachers are fully supported with evidence and data, able to enact remediation and intervention as learning gaps are identified.

The direct instruction, remediation and intervention capabilities of Literatu - give teachers so many more ways to ensure no class is left behind.

 

Posted on Nov 01, 2013 by the literatu desk to News