Imagine MyPath is designed to personalize each student's learning journey by adapting to their individual needs and progress. This adaptive approach ensures that students receive the right instruction at the right time, helping them efficiently catch up, keep up, or get ahead.
Key features of Imagine MyPath's adaptive approach
- Dynamic adjustment: The learning path is continuously adjusted based on a student's performance on mastery checks.
- Domain-based adaptation: The program can adapt to a student's strengths and weaknesses within different domains.
- Teacher support: Teachers can provide additional support and resources as needed.
Adapting within lessons
Imagine MyPath adapts instruction within each lesson to provide students with the support they need, when they need it. This includes:
- Multiple mastery checks: Students have multiple opportunities to demonstrate mastery of a topic through mastery checks.
- Personalized instruction: The program provides targeted online instruction tailored to a student's specific needs, offering additional explanations, examples, and practice problems.
- Additional practice: Students may be assigned additional practice problems or activities to reinforce their understanding before taking another mastery check.
- Guided notes: Students in Grades 6–12 have access to guided notes that can be used throughout the lesson.
The diagrams below illustrate MyPath's adaptivity within lessons. When needed, students may receive online instructional support as well as additional opportunities to practice applying the skills being taught. If a student fails to pass all of the mastery checks in a lesson, we recommend that you intervene and provide one-on-one or small-group assistance using downloadable teaching resources.
Grades K–5 Lesson Structure
Grades 6–12 Lesson Structure
Adjusting the learning path
MyPath will adjust a student's learning path in response to their performance on mastery checks, manual inputs from a teacher, or new assessment results. Most often, lessons are added to a student's learning path as skill gaps are identified, but having a learning path that can be adjusted in multiple ways helps to ensure that the program is challenging students appropriately and that they are receiving the support they need to succeed.
Here are descriptions of the different ways a student's learning path can be adjusted:
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Mastery checks not only drive adaptivity within a lesson but also across a student's learning path. Every learning path is structured around specific domains for each grade level, and MyPath uses a student's domain-specific performance to adjust a student's learning path by incorporating lessons from lower grade levels when needed. The following scenarios are examples of when a student may receive content from a lower grade level:
- If a Grade 5 student fails 3 lessons in a row within a specific grade-level domain, MyPath will assign relevant lower-level lessons in that domain. Lessons from other domains will possibly be added, too, if those lessons will support the student's mastery of the Grade 5 skills they are currently struggling to learn.
- If a Grade 7 student attempts 4 or more lessons within a specific grade-level domain and fails more than half of them, MyPath will assign relevant lower-level lessons in that domain (and possibly others).
- If a Grade 9 student completes all lessons within a grade-level domain and fails all of them, MyPath will assign them lower-level lessons in that domain (and possibly others).
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Manual changes to a student's placement grade will also adjust the contents of a student's learning path.
- If you manually lower a student's placement grade, the student will begin receiving lessons from the lower grade level and then work their way back up to their current position.
- If you manually raise a student's placement grade, the student will receive a set of condensed lessons from their rostered grade up to the new placement grade. This content bridge ensures that the student has mastered the skills needed for more advanced content. Once the student has passed that series of lessons, they will begin receiving content from their new placement grade. Note that students can only be manually placed 3 grade levels above their rostered grade. Another option is to assign more advanced content using the Assignment Builder.
Caution
If a student's original placement resulted from their performance on the MyPath Assessment or was assigned via a NWEA integration, a manual placement will override the domain placements of their current learning path because manual placements are for an overall grade level. The program will continue to adjust the student's learning path based on their performance on mastery checks, but the domain-specific data that was previously informing the contents of their learning path will no longer be used. In other words, instead of only being assigned the domains called for by their assessment data, they will begin encountering lessons from all domains.
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New assessment results may also cause changes to a student's learning path.
- If you are using the MyPath Assessment or an integration with NWEA, these changes would be domain-specific and may or may not result in a change to the student's placement grade. For example, if a student's new domain scores indicate that they need more foundational instruction and practice within a particular domain, corresponding lessons will be incorporated into their learning path.
- If you are using an integration with Renaissance, a student's placement grade will only change if their new Star score corresponds to a different grade level than their current placement. This would result in lessons from lower grades being incorporated into their learning path or possibly extending their learning path into above-grade-level content.
The educator's role
Educators play a vital role in supporting the adaptive aspects of Imagine MyPath. You can:
- Monitor student progress: Track student performance on mastery checks and identify areas where they may need additional support.
- Provide targeted assistance: Offer one-on-one or small-group instruction to help students who are struggling.
- Access offline resources: Use downloadable offline resources to provide additional practice or reteach concepts.
- Edit a student's placement: As noted above, you can manually lower or raise the placement grade of a student if you feel the student would benefit from a broader foundational review or an extension of the path into above-grade-level content.
By adapting to each student's individual needs, Imagine MyPath helps create a more engaging and effective learning experience. Students are able to progress at their own pace, ensuring that they are always challenged but never overwhelmed.