Leigh Langton, an educator in Florida, shares her student checklist system. "I wanted to set up a system that would keep me and my students accountable that also wasn't hard to manage," she explains. "My district set a standard of 45 minutes of i-Ready Instruction in both Reading and Math. Although the 45 minutes a week per subject worked out to about less than 10 minutes per day per subject, I needed a way my students could complete their lessons daily using the three computers I had in my classroom. So, I brainstormed some easy ways to track how many of my students were getting on each day.

In steps the student checklist. To keep things simple and visual, I set up a clipboard by my two main computers. On the clipboard I had my students’ names and subject area for each side. Then, I added three clips to the side of the clipboard. As students finished their lesson, the clip would move down to the next friend to complete theirs. Simple! Once everyone completed their Reading lessons for the day, we switched to the Math side and started the process over. Although some days we’d get through everyone and others we’d only get through a few, this checklist system helped tremendously! It served as a visual reminder to me as to who still needed to get on to complete a lesson for the day and who had already gone.

Eventually, I was able to train my kindergarteners to move down the clips and tap their friends. This made a huge difference in the amount of effort this routine put on me. Once they understood the system, they were in charge of moving their clip down and on to the next person—which they loved! They wanted to go quietly tap their friend for their next lesson. Win–win! 

This system basically worked on autopilot throughout the day. The exception was when we did Reading or Math centers, or during formal assessment times. For center times, students would circle through the computers as part of their rotation. For assessments, I didn’t have any students on so I wouldn’t have students miss the tests."

This idea is originally from Leigh's blog: TheAppliciousTeacher.com/i-Ready-Tracking-System