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Online Teacher Resource and Assessment Community
Product Training and Professional Development
Introduction
T
o ensure students achieve success, educators must take an
active role in their continuous learning, onTRAC training,
and professional development. Interactive Achievement has
two dedicated divisions to support our clients in maximizing
the success of the onTRAC platform in the classroom. The
Client Services team develops and conducts onTRAC Product
Training to teach customers how to use the software and the
Professional Development team develops sessions with the
end goal of impacting student outcomes.
Product training courses and curriculum are developed
specifically to instruct users in the functionality of onTRAC
and guide users in how to execute those functions. Key
activities of product training may include creating items and
assessments, setting up test sessions, and accessing reports.
Professional Development sessions have a significant
focus on the building blocks and execution of best in class
formative assessment. They are designed to teach educators
how to get the best data from onTRAC to guide their
instructional and program choices. The goal of professional
development is to create growth for every student every day.
Implementation of the onTRAC platform supports both core
elements of success – the how with Product Training services
and the why with Professional Development services.
Led by Dr. Sally I’Anson,
Interactive Achievement
has a team of professionals
that understand the needs of
adult learners and Interactive
Achievement’s Product Training
and Professional Development
sessions are developed with a
commitment to following the
national standards of professional
learning that have been proven
effective in improving teacher
and leader practice.
Dr. Sally I’Anson, Director
Professional Development
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Audience
Training Format
REC
webinar
Teacher
Principal
Live Online
Recorded Webinar
In Person
Duration
Instructional
Coaches
District
Administrators
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1.5 hr
2 hr
2.5 hr
3 hr
3.5 hr
Training Session Times
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Online Teacher Resource and Assessment Community
BASICS
PRODUCT
TRAINING
BASIC PRODUCT
TRAINING
Assessment Management System
Basic onTRAC AMS User Training ......
2.5 hr
Audience:
Objective: Obtain a basic working knowledge of the
onTRAC AMS software and help features.
Interactive hands-on training session that covers all
aspects of the AMS user interface including Assessment
Library, Testing Center, iTest, Reporting, Classroom
Manager, and Help. The basic training is ideal for new
users or anyone not previously trained by an IA trainer
and can be customized by request for train-the-trainer
groups and for school and district administrators.
Available:
REC
webinar
Recommended Prerequisites: None
Longitudinal Data System
Longitudinal Data System
Basic onTRAC LDS User Training .......
1.5 hr
Audience:
Objective: Obtain a basic working knowledge of the
onTRAC LDS software and help features.
An interactive training session in which participants will
have hands-on experience with the LDS user interface
including Student Snapshot Reports, Performance
Snapshot Reports, Comparison and Quarterly Snapshot
Reports, Report Builder, Interventions, and Watchlists.
The basic training is ideal for new users or anyone
not previously trained by an IA trainer and can be
customized by request for train-the-trainer groups and
for school and district administrators.
Available:
REC
webinar
Recommended Prerequisites: None
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Online Teacher Resource and Assessment Community
ADVANCEDPRODUCT
PRODUCT
TRAINING
ADVANCED
TRAINING
onTRAC AMS Assessment
Builder Workshop .................................
3 hr
Audience:
onTRAC AMS Advanced Focus
on Reporting Training .........................
2 hr
Audience:
Objective: Users will create assessments with the
guidance and assistance of an IA trainer.
A brief overview of assessment creation kicks off this
collaborative work session. Users will receive targeted
Assessment Library training covering assessment
creation options. All remaining time will be dedicated
to a supervised work session in which the IA trainer
provides support and troubleshooting for staff as they
create assessments. This session is perfect for groups
creating common assessments.
Available:
Objective: Users will develop an in-depth
understanding of the various reports and student
achievement data available in onTRAC.
Focus on the Reporting module and explore the various
options for assessing student achievement in onTRAC.
Participants will explore different views including
item analysis, standard analysis, class analysis, teacher
analysis, and school/ division analysis.
Available:
REC
webinar
Recommended Prerequisites: None
Recommended Prerequisites:
Basic onTRAC AMS User Training
onTRAC AMS Item
Creation Workshop ..............................
Longitudinal Data System
2 hr
Audience:
onTRAC LDS Power User Training .....
2 hr
Audience:
Objective: Gain an understanding of the different types
of item formats available in onTRAC and how to create
items within the onTRAC software.
Objective: Obtain a basic working knowledge of the
onTRAC LDS software and help features, while focusing
on administrative tasks within the software.
An in-depth look at each item format, including multiplechoice and technology enhanced items. Participants will
learn how to create each item type through hands-on
exercises including adding images, assigning Blooms and
Webs DOK, and how to troubleshoot item development.
An interactive training session that is specifically
designed for staff tasked with LDS site administration.
Participants will have hands-on experience with
the LDS user interface including Student Snapshot
Reports, Performance Snapshot Reports, Comparison
and Quarterly Snapshot Reports, Report Builder,
Interventions, and Watchlists. Particular emphasis is
given to administrative features available in Settings/
Client Manager.
Available:
REC
webinar
Recommended Prerequisites: None
Available:
REC
webinar
Recommended Prerequisites: None
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Professional Development
BUILDING ASSESSMENT LITERACY
BUILDING ASSESSMENT LITERACY
Fundamentals of Writing
High-Quality Items ..............................
3.5 hr
Objective: Learn the essential elements of writing
valid and reliable items.
Participants will use key curriculum documents to ensure
that their new items are perfectly aligned to state,
Common Core or Next- Generation Science Standards
and skills. They will learn how to format test questions to
mirror state assessment items in font size, style, use
of graphics, italics, capitalization as well as the structure
of questions.
Available:
Recommended Prerequisites:
AMS Item Creation Workshop
standards and skills being assessed and how to create them in onTRAC. Participants will create technology-enhanced items that
closely align to next generation assessments. Clients
using Interactive Achievement’s onTRAC software will
use the technology-enhanced item templates to create
enhanced multiple-choice, hot spot, drag and drop, fill-inthe-blank and constructed response items.
Basic onTRAC AMS User Training
AMS Item Creation Workshop
Next generation assessments require students to
generate text and complete performance-based tasks to
demonstrate knowledge. Participants will learn how to
design and create open-ended items to challenge their
students. They will also learn how to align these items
to the appropriate level of cognitive complexity
according to the standard the item is intended to assess.
Participants will learn how to use rubrics to grade
open-ended items.
Recommended Prerequisites:
3.5 hr
Objective: Learn which item types best meet the
Recommended Prerequisites:
Objective: Learn how to create items that require
students to generate text to demonstrate their
understanding of a standard(s) and skill(s). You will also
learn how to use rubrics for grading these items.
Available:
Audience:
Available:
3.5 hr
Audience:
Audience:
Fundamentals of Writing
Technology-Enhanced Items .........
Fundamentals of Writing
Open-Ended Items ...............................
Basic onTRAC AMS User Training
AMS Item Creation Workshop
Increasing the Cognitive
Complexity of Items ........................
3.5 hr
Audience:
Objective: Learn how to unpack standards to
identify the level of cognitive complexity that the standard and skill should be taught and tested.
Participants will learn how to assign levels of cognitive
complexity to their test questions. Students will use
core curriculum documents to analyze the intent of
the standards and guide their decisions regarding
assignment of the level of cognitive complexity from
Bloom’s Taxonomy or Webb’s Depth of Knowledge.
Available:
Recommended Prerequisites:
Basic onTRAC AMS User Training
AMS Item Creation Workshop
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Professional Development
BUILDING DATA LITERACY
BUILDING DATA LITERACY
BUILDING ASSESSMENT
LITERACY CONTINUED...
Writing Aligned
Formative Assessments .......................
3.5 hr
Audience:
Utilizing Formative Data
to Inform Instruction ...........................
3.5 hr
Audience:
Objective: Learn how to use formative assessment
Objective: Learn how to create challenging
data to identify common student successes and
misunderstandings and create corrective instruction
power lessons and assessments to address weaknesses.
assessments for all learners that are aligned with the
standards, skills, and curriculum being assessed.
Participants will work together to create highly effective
assessments that measure the taught curriculum
and the intent of the standards. They will design
assessments that are rigorous and challenging for all
students. In addition, teachers will learn how to ensure
that their assessments produce results that will give
them critical information about individual students’
strengths and weaknesses as well as common errors and
misunderstandings
Participants will learn how to access formative and
interim assessment data and analyze the data to uncover
and identify skills mastered and not mastered. The
group will dig deeper into the data to identify common
student misconceptions and errors. Teachers will
use reports to identify small groups of students who
have missed the same skill(s). They will then work
collaboratively to create short, high-impact lessons
to remediate identified learning gaps. To conclude,
participants will design new, short-burst assessments to
ensure students have mastered the targeted skill(s).
Available:
Recommended Prerequisites:
Available:
Basic onTRAC AMS User Training
AMS Assessment Builder Training
Recommended Prerequisites:
Basic onTRAC AMS User Training
AMS Advanced Focus on Reporting Training
Analyzing Longitudinal Data to
Identify Promising Trends and Areas
for Improvement ..................................
3.5 hr
Audience:
Objective: Participants will analyze a variety of
longitudinal data trends to evaluate programs,
interventions, materials and resources, schedules,
instruction and patterns in student learning and behavior.
Participants will learn how to analyze current school year
and historical data to identify trends and patterns in data
over time. In addition, participants will learn how to
analyze data from a variety of sources to inform decisions
at the district, school, grade/course level, classroom, and
especially at the student level.
Available:
REC
webinar
Recommended Prerequisites:
Basic onTRAC LDS User Training
onTRAC LDS Power User Training
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Professional Development
INSPIRING ASSESSMENT
INSPIRING
ASSESSMENTAND DATA L
AND DATA LEADERSHIP
Implementing and Supporting
Formative Assessment .........................
3.5 hr
Audience:
3.5 hr
Audience:
Objective: Learn how to implement processes and structures to implement and support a high- functioning and enduring embedded formative assessment model in your district, school(s) or grade/content teams.
Participants will learn how to set up systems to support
and monitor on-going implementation and review of
formative and interim assessment data. Systems may
include expectations for teacher analysis of student data,
schedule of teacher team meetings, as well as reporting
expectations for teacher leaders and building
level leaders.
Objective: Learn how to recognize and support key indicators of rigor in classrooms.
Participants will learn how to identify rigor in classrooms.
Certain elements of instruction are clear indicators of a
learning environment that is engaging for all students
and allows every to student to work at the outer edges of
their ability without frustration. Learn how to recognize
and help replicate these classrooms of excellence.
Available:
Recommended Prerequisites: None
Available:
Developing a Balanced
Assessment Program ...........................
Recommended Prerequisites:
Basic onTRAC AMS User Training
Using Data to Inspire
Confidence and Creativity ...................
Recognizing Rigor
in Your Classroom ................................
3.5 hr
Audience:
3.5 hr
Audience:
Objective: Learn how to develop a culture that
supports and encourages teachers and leaders
to view student data as a resource to build confidence in
current practices and inspire creativity to improve
student achievement.
The power of collaborative data inquiry lies in the
professional dialog that occurs among grade level teams
or vertical content teams when they are discussing
student results from common assessments. These
discussions reveal individual teacher instructional
strengths, in teaching specific standards and skills.
Participants will learn how to use instructional data
to inspire confidence in teachers by identifying best
practices. Learners will also develop the skills to use data
to inspire creativity in schools and classrooms.
Objective: Closely examine all of the different
assessments administered in your district or school to determine the data that are being used by whom and for what purpose.
Participants will learn how to determine which
assessments are being administered in their school or
district, when, to whom, and for what purpose. They
will then create a process for possibly eliminating
redundancies and filling in gaps. Participants will discuss
the formative, interim and summative value of each
data source and how that effects their use of data from
that source.
Available:
Recommended Prerequisites: None
Available:
Recommended Prerequisites:
Basic onTRAC AMS Basic Training
onTRAC LDS Basic Training
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