Empower Your Educators with Acuity Professional Development

Acuity Professional Development will ensure that your educators use Acuity successfully to diagnose and assess student skills and ongoing progress, review information in easy-to-understand reports, and keep students moving forward with informed instruction and engaging and targeted instructional practice.

Acuity Professional Development supports you by:

• Delivering high-quality courses presented by skilled trainers with thorough Acuity knowledge
• Providing a flexible menu of online or on-site course options
• Engaging educators with hands-on activities to Acuity concepts
• Including a wide range of topics for pre- and post-assessment
• Meeting your teaching and learning objectives with customized Acuity training options
  
  
  

A full range of professional development options
CTB will help you build an Acuity Professional Development plan that trains your educators to use information effectively to raise student achievement.

Acuity Professional Development features the following course types:

• Introductory and advanced training designed to acquaint users to basic and high-level Acuity functions
• Certification training to help you provide quality Acuity Professional Development throughout your school or district
• Web-based training—or webinars—designed to provide convenient access to a variety of topic-specific courses
• Customized training workshops that meet your individual school or district needs
  
  

Hands-on training delivered in your school or district

Introductory and advanced on-site courses led by experienced Acuity trainers. Hands-on training delivered in your school or district acquaints your educators with powerful Acuity tools.

• Introduction to Acuity for District Representatives or Classroom Teachers
• Acuity Data Analysis: Understanding Reports
• Advanced Acuity: Inform Curriculum in Response to Data
• Acuity Certification and Re-Certification for Trainers
• Acuity UnWired™ Workshop
  
  

Web-based training delivered at your convenience

These cost-effective Web-based group sessions, or webinars, promote consistent and knowledgeable use of Acuity. Each targeted, topic-specific course is about 60 minutes in length and includes a maximum of 15 participants per session.

Topics include:

• Acuity Roles and Permissions
• Preparing for an Acuity Assessment
• Scoring Acuity Constructed-Response Items
• Acuity Reports Overview
• Creating an Acuity Custom Test
• Assigning Acuity Instructional Resources
• Acuity Item Authoring
• Acuity Scan and Score Procedures
• Acuity Self-Rostering
  

Customized workshops
Available at any time of the year, on any topic you choose, these workshops extend the regular Acuity Professional Development training options to provide a comprehensive understanding of using Acuity and data-driven instruction to improve student achievement. Note: customized workshops require four weeks advance notification.

Let us help you plan your professional development
Call CTB/McGraw-Hill today at 800.538.9547 to register for Acuity Professional Development training designed to help you improve student achievement for your school or district.