Wireless Generation Helps Schools Use Data to Deliver Effective Instruction

By Anuradha Shukla

TMCnet Contributing Editor

 

Wireless Generation is offering highly customized, in-person and Web-based professional development and consulting to help schools use data on student learning to provide effective instruction.

 

The company has also launched Wireless Generation Professional Services, a new business division that is developing and delivering the new offerings.

 

Wireless Generation reportedly created the new services in response to demand from users of its mCLASS assessment and reporting technology. The company explains that mCLASS system allows teachers to give broadly used Pre-K-6 reading and math formative assessments efficiently and accurately with a handheld device. This system also makes the resulting data immediately available and useful in instructional decision-making via reports on the handheld and on the Web.

 

Leslie Kerner, executive director of Wireless Generation Professional Services points out that although educators now have a wealth of data about students at their fingertips, the connection to teachers’ classroom instruction and administrators’ decisions about curricula and resources isn’t always obvious.

 

Wireless Generation aims to help them build lasting capacity in analyzing and acting on their data.

 

“Teachers generally get a day of professional development here and there, and it often doesn’t ‘stick,’ or isn’t relevant to their classrooms,” said Kerner in a statement.

 

“That’s why our professional services are customized, with participants working with their actual student data, and learning techniques and skills that are easy to incorporate into their classroom instruction immediately,” he added.

 

Wireless Generation’s consultants’ list comprises former educators boasting hands-on classroom and administrative experience. They also hold specialized professional certifications in math and reading assessments such as the TPRI and Tejas LEE.

 

Wireless Generation pioneered the adaptation of mobile technologies, including handheld computers and digital pens, for use in managing and improving teaching and learning in grades pre-K-12.