Granger, at Leicester MS

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Jacqui Granger uses ASSISTments in the back of her room at a bank of 3 computers (and at her desk computer).

A key feature of her routine is a set of spiral notebooks. This is where the students work out the problems.

There is a sheet in the front with a few ASSIStment instructions and a place for the students to write down their log-in and password. These notebooks were passed out and the log-in and password filled in on the first day of school.

On a review day she has a paper and pencil book activity and an ASSISTment Activity. She starts with 4 students who each take their notebook and proceed to the computer. They know to glance at the chalkboard to see what problem set they are supposed to do.

When they finish the one problem set they turn in their notebook and Ms. Granger picks up the next one on the stack and the next student goes to the computer. On this day the students at their desk were working on a review assignment out of their book. The students were encouraged to get help from each other at their desks and the students at the computer were getting help from ASSISTment so Ms. Granger used this time to grade papers.

When everyone is done Ms. Granger goes over the report from the data using the projector in her class that is hooked up to a computer. Students who do particularly poorly can get more credit on the assignment by doing the problems again. To do this Ms. Granger prints the problem set out and gives it for homework but she could also assign it to a redo class and have them do the problems over again on ASSISTment.