Xerox IgniteEducator Support SystemThink outside the bubble.Get on the - PDF document

Xerox IgniteEducator Support SystemThink outside the bubble.Get on the path to personalized teaching. How do students learn best? What challenges them? When you’re restricted by multiple choice responses and time-consuming student check-ins, important questions can go unanswered. Fill in the blanks that matter with Xerox Ignite. This software adds meaning to student-made marks, giving you the valuable insights you need to personalize instruction for every student. Building a Solid Foundation©2015 Xerox Corporation. All rights reserved. Xerox and Xerox and Design and Ignite are trademarks of Xerox Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. BR12275 It’s your mission as a teacher. With Xerox Ignite, you can monitor each student’s progress and tailor your instruction to facilitate individual success along the journey of continuous learning.Gain the freedom to focus on diverse student needs.High quality instruction in the 21st century no longer resembles a one-size-ts-all model. Instead, it relies on responsive teaching and a varied approach to planning. Grading papers is the greatest non-teaching consumer of a teacher’s time. Imagine a classroom where it isn’t... It’s now possible with Ignite, a tool for the future of education that can give you more time and more support to hone in on what works best.Receive valuable insights.Multiple choice formats, while faster to score than handwritten responses, don’t always mirror what is actually being taught or indicate what the student actually knows. They leave teachers like you without insight into how a student arrived at an answer or where they went wrong. Teachers often lack the support tools that can help them deliver more targeted teaching. But not anymore...Xerox worked hand-in-hand with teachers and administrators to develop Ignite. This powerful technology transitions student handwritten responses to digital format providing useful data that informs instruction at a fraction of the time you would normally spend grading.Enhance your student coaching.With this revolutionary software, you can do more than give student check-ins. You can use the information you gather to uncover the underlying thinking process behind why the question was answered incorrectly. The Ignite Validation Process provides an opportunity for teacher coaching that leads to the development of student metacognition skills. The Validation Process keeps the teacher “connected to the student” and prevents rote analytics. Launch your classroom into the digital domain.Automate the aspects of student check-ins.Ignite helps cut down on time spent selecting, scoring and analyzing student work and gives you real-time, actionable data in minutes—not hours or days.Administer student check-ins in familiar formats. Virtually all content can be put into Ignite—published curriculum, item banks or your own customized curriculum.Think beyond multiple choice. The system handles the answer sheets you’re accustomed to, plus student hand-marked check-ins ranging from alphanumeric characters to other free-form marks like circles, checks and slashes.Personalize instruction with ease. Ignite pairs metadata associated with each question or item with details of the student responses so you can determine where there was a problem and quickly personalize instruction for individuals and small groups.When introducing Ignite into your classroom, you’ll benet from frequent and specic feedback on what students are learning. With its data analytics support tools, you’ll gain useful information to tailor your instruction and more effectively address each student’s needs. With its longitudinal data, you can get a comprehensive view of your students and establish benchmarks in learning. It can help nd areas of strength and weakness while fostering real-time data-based instruction. Motivated Students,Meaningful ResultsWhat teachers are saying about Ignite:e:very powerful piece [of Ignite] has been the feedback to the students. They’re seeing how they’re doing and they’re setting their own goals. That not only engages them but it helps everybody see success.”“I’m faster getting tests back to them.The information is much more relevant... It’s much fresher in [students’] minds... Much more meaningful.” Embrace the future.With a state-of-the-art user interface, gnite is designed to work with the latest computers and tablets and includes multi-lingual capabilities.Ignite empowers you to teach in a more targeted fashion, creating a transfer of energy from scoring to preparing for future instruction. To learn more about how Ignite helps keep students in focus, contact us at 877.414.2676 or visit xerox.com/ignite.