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The Best Lesson You’ll Ever Teach is Tomorrow’s with BrainPOP’s New Insights Reports
It’s no secret that teachers work long days. Experts say that the best lessons require the same time to plan, at minimum, as they do to deliver. And yet, the average teacher is in front of students for six hours per day with less than an hour of time to prepare for all six hours.
Why does lesson preparation require this much time? One word: differentiation. Effective teachers know that it’s not enough to simply deliver a lesson. For students to learn, educators have to adjust their plans between every lesson, and to do this, they have to spend a tremendous amount of time analyzing data.
But with BrainPOP’s new Insights Reports, shaping tomorrow’s lessons has never been more time-efficient or more impactful. Deliver meaningful learning experiences to students, and get one step closer to going home on time with BrainPOP’s latest data tools.
Today’s Data Can Transform Tomorrow’s Lesson
Imagine entering your classroom tomorrow with multiple data points about your students’ recent performance. You’d know exactly how to adapt your lesson to deepen their understanding!
When you log in to BrainPOP’s Insights Reports, you gain a detailed understanding of each student’s real-time progress and performance, ensuring that each lesson is thoughtfully designed to meet your students exactly where they are in their learning journey.
Impact Every Student, Every Lesson
Data alone isn’t transformative; what you do with it makes the difference. So, how can you use BrainPOP’s new Insights Reports to improve student learning outcomes?
Assignment Summary Report
Identify Skill Gaps: Quickly identify individual skill gaps so you know which students to check in with during independent work time to meet them exactly where they are.
Monitor Student Engagement: Solve the problem of work completed too quickly, or assignments missed altogether, and work to ensure active participation.
Reinforce Content Knowledge: Identify areas where students lack context, and individualize instruction by assigning relevant BrainPOP lessons.
Assignment Assessment Report
Complete Error Analysis: The bar graph in this report lets you visualize students’ answer choices so that you can pinpoint exactly what they misunderstand.
Understand Student Thinking: Question details offer insights into students’ thought processes and common misconceptions so that you can adapt more effectively.
Navigate Multiple Data Points: Streamline your review with the question navigation feature, which lets you navigate across questions that address the same standard.
Individual Student Literacy Report
Utilize Current Levels: Differentiate reading assignments confidently by understanding which students may need additional support or new challenges.
Reinforce Literacy Skills: This report makes prioritizing literacy simple. Find which skills students struggle with to know what to incorporate into your instruction.
Work with Colleagues: No one teacher can be responsible for literacy outcomes. Identify trends across student groups, and divide and conquer interventions.
More Than Just Metrics
This data provides actionable insights that empower teachers to enhance their instructional strategies and foster personalized learning. These features exemplify BrainPOP’s commitment to evolve alongside the needs of classrooms, championing student success and ensuring every student becomes a confident learner. With BrainPOP’s new Insights Reports, the best lesson you’ll ever teach happens tomorrow, and we can’t wait to hear about it.
Katie Pothireddy is a product marketer on the BrainPOP team and a former vice principal, teacher coach, and classroom teacher. She holds a Master’s in the Science of Education from Johns Hopkins University.
