The Web Based Teaching Tool

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The Web Based Teaching Tool
An Introduction
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The Web Based Teaching Tool
Overview

• This presentation will explain
• What the Web Based Teaching Tool (WBTT) is
• The history of WBTT
• How WBTT is used in schools

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The Web Based Teaching Tool
What is the WBTT?

• WBTT is used by primary teachers to support their
  students who may be at risk for future school
  difficulties
• WBTT can be accessed anywhere via the Internet
• WBTT is funded by the Ontario Ministry of
  Education for use in all publicly funded schools
  in Ontario

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The Web Based Teaching Tool
WBTT History
In 1999 the LDAO began the Promoting Early
Intervention (PEI) Initiative in response to the
McCain-Mustard Early Years Report. The report
recommended closer attention be paid to the
crucial early years.
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The Web Based Teaching Tool
WBTT History

• 14 focus groups were conducted with School Boards
  across Ontario. It was determined that there is
• A wide range of practice in Boards regarding
  screening
• No standardized approach to screening young
  students
• No guarantee that screening leads to intervention
  with flagged students

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The Web Based Teaching Tool
WBTT History

• Other Information Considered by PEI
• Kindergarten students arrive with various degrees
  of readiness.
• Learning difficulties may result from many
  factors, including English as a second language,
  socio-economic circumstances, vision and hearing
  impairments.
• Over time, struggling students may begin to
  present as learning disabled, leading to
  inappropriate identifications.
• Identification without intervention can be more
  detrimental than the absence of identification.
  - Dan Offord (Centre for Studies of Children at
  Risk, McMaster University).

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The Web Based Teaching Tool
WBTT History

• The PEI working groups determined that educators
  need a system to help teachers to differentiate
  between those students with long-term learning
  problems and those who require extra support in
  order to catch up to their peers and created The
  Web Based Teaching Tool.

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The Web Based Teaching Tool
The Web Based Teaching Tool

• is based on a Dynamic Screening and
  Intervention Model.
• The process is a circular one a students
  abilities are examined, interventions target the
  childs areas of need, and the student is
  continually tracked to measure progress. This
  cycle continues as long as necessary.

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The Web Based Teaching Tool
The Dynamic Screening and Intervention Model
screening and/or tracking
flagging
intervention
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The Web Based Teaching Tool
Features

• Empirically validated screening tools to flag
  students (K-2) at risk for future school
  difficulties
• Evidence-based interventions including skill-
  specific lesson plans, teaching strategies and
  behaviour management techniques

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The Web Based Teaching Tool
Features

• User-friendly and ongoing tracking framework
• Teacher orientation and ongoing support, idea
  sharing and access to specialists
• The highest level of security available online

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The Web Based Teaching Tool
The WBTT Process

• Step One Screening
• Teachers screen all students with easy to use,
  valid and predictive screening tools to measure
  school readiness, phonological awareness and
  numeracy.

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The Web Based Teaching Tool
The WBTT Process

• Step Two Flagging
• The results of the screens are used to flag
  students who are at-risk for learning
  difficulties.
• This is a non-categorical flagging, and not an
  identification or diagnosis.

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The Web Based Teaching Tool
The WBTT Process

• Step Three Intervention Tracking
• Observation checklists help to further determine
  where a flagged students strengths and needs lie
  and allow teachers to track student response to
  interventions.
• The observation checklists may be used
  differently by individual teachers.

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The Web Based Teaching Tool
The WBTT Process

• Step Three cont. Intervention Tracking
• Using the screening results, tracking and
  classroom observations, teachers search for
  strategies in the WBTT Interventions database.
• These strategies range from full-class lesson
  plans to take-home ideas for parents.

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The Web Based Teaching Tool
The Quick Tour of the WBTT
The Login Page Individual user names and
passwords ensure privacy of information each
teacher has exclusive access to the data they
enter.
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The Web Based Teaching Tool
The Quick Tour of the WBTT
The Home Page From the Main Task Page, teachers
can choose a variety of functions.
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The Web Based Teaching Tool
The Quick Tour of the WBTT
The Student Page The student profile is where
all of the students screening, observation
checklist and intervention information is housed
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The Web Based Teaching Tool
The Quick Tour of the WBTT
The Class Page Teachers create and edit their
classes based on grade if they teach one grade,
or spilt/multiple grades.
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The Web Based Teaching Tool
The Quick Tour of the WBTT
The Group Page Teachers can create and monitor
various groups of students based on a variety of
criteria.
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The Web Based Teaching Tool
The Quick Tour of the WBTT
The Screenings Page Screens for each student are
displayed and scored based on grade.
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The Web Based Teaching Tool
The Quick Tour of the WBTT
The Results Page Auto generated reports for each
screen can be printed and stored for future
reference.
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The Web Based Teaching Tool
The Quick Tour of the WBTT
The Interventions Page The Interventions
Database contains strategies for classroom and
home use.
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The Web Based Teaching Tool
The Quick Tour of the WBTT
Interventions Each search will produce a list of
strategies. Each entry can be printed and/or
added to a students growth plan.
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The Web Based Teaching Tool
The Quick Tour of the WBTT
An Observation Checklist Observation Checklists
are divided into subject strands and are
printable.
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Why Use the Web Based Teaching Tool?

• Facilitates early, non-categorical identification
  of and support for students at risk
• Flagged students are continuously supported
  through the use and tracking of interventions
• Benefits all children in the class
• Promotes parent communication and involvement
• Aids in classroom assessment, evaluation and
  reporting
• Validates teacher concerns and expedites
  identification (if necessary)

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The Web Based Teaching Tool
Contact Us
To reach us via email wbtt_at_ldao.ca To learn
more about LDAO and the WBTT www.ldao.ca