Learning Today's Smart Tutor™ program has continued to demonstrate its ability to positively impact student motivation and achievement in the areas of reading and math. Not only has it provided positive evidence of its impact in the classrooms, but also in the results garnered from efficacy studies in some of the poorest districts of Arkansas and Florida. |
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Smart Program Design
Smart Tutor’s differentiated instruction automatically assesses and provides instruction that matches each student’s profile and learning ability. Learning Today’s pedagogy of “Tutorial, Practice, and Assessment” ensures that students learn in an engaging, encouraging, motivating, challenging and non-threatening learning environment.
By providing focused time-on-task and explicit instruction, “At Risk” students begin to increase their intrinsic motivation to learn. This opens the gateway to learning and enables Learning Today to help them develop the essential reading and math skills they need to become successful in school and on high-stakes tests.
Students feel successful as they never ‘get stuck’ and never visibly ‘fail’ as the program provides them helpful hints and immediate corrective feedback. Smart Tutor provides the student with the equivalent of an individual tutor, one that is engaging, encouraging, motivating, challenging, non-threatening, non-judgmental and capable of targeting specific deficiencies.
Broad Curriculum and Engaging Content
With over 2700 reading and math activities Smart Tutor's curriculum is designed to develop a strong foundation literacy and math skills while meeting NCLB guidelines and improving standardized test scores.
The content is engaging and appeals to all learners because it engages them through multiple modalities. Tactile, kinesthetic learners need to touch, move, and experience. Through the use of the keyboard, mouse, and virtual manipulatives, children are able to interact with the program. The use of high-end, colorful graphics and flash technology provides the visual stimulation that children of the 21st century have become accustomed to. The program meets the auditory learning styles of learners through the use of speech and sounds which are incorporated throughout each aspect of the program.
Fits Easily into Today’s Learning Environments
Our four proprietary web-based applications drive assessment, instruction and accountability. They are our administrator application, our teacher application, our student application and our parent application. IT specialists are not needed to implement Smart Tutor™ as it is built to be used in any of the following environments
In School
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Extended Day Programs
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In Home
Harnessing native web technology, these applications have been created using an ASP Model combined with a Microsoft database and operating system. Our applications are cross-platform compatible, meaning they will work on either PC's or Macs and will run on any browser such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Netscape or Safari.
Works Automatically, with or without Teacher Intervention
Learning Today's prescriptive instruction provides students with the instruction and practice they need to bring them to grade level in the core areas of reading and math, with or without teacher involvement based on their assessment in key sub-skills.
Our powerful yet teacher-friendly application allows teachers to:
select and manage lessons that immediately support and/or supplement what is being taught in the classroom.
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assess their students in key reading and math sub-skills using our new comprehensive assessment tool.
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monitor student progress through a range of comprehensive and powerful reports.
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identify students in need of remediation and create customized programs for them.
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manage their classroom by adding or deleting students from their roster.
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create special student groups and then assign them specific educational programs.
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create and save custom lesson sets.
Provides Timely Data for Intervention and Remediation
Learning Today's reporting system enables teachers and administrators to view and print important information about each student's progress at any given time... 24/7, from almost any computer, anywhere. Our reporting system includes an Automatic Data Collection System, Management Information Reporting System, Reading Assessment Results and Math Assessment Results.
Using our reporting system it is easy to track test results, averages, state standards and benchmarks, time-on-task, and to identify students in need of remediation.
