PowerTeacher 1.5
Delay in Implementation
by Roy Casper
July 28, 2009
NOTICE:
We will not be implementing the New PowerTeacher 1.5 for school year, 2009-2010. This is due to a lack of time to implement a test environment and training for the teaching staff. I will try to get PowerTeacher partially implemented at the end of the 1st semester. I will need some volunteers from the staff for this project. I apologize for not getting this started sooner, but it would be totally unfair to just spring this on the teachers without proper training and testing. Thank you, Roy Casper
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This new grade book has been developed from the ground up. It is not an upgrade to PowerGrade. In the upcoming weeks we will have sessions where you can view the new PowerTeacher. After viewing the new PowerTeacher, if you have any suggestions for enhancements please let me know and I will communicate those back to Pearson. Since the new PowerTeacher, 1.1, was released in 1997, there have been many features added to PowerTeacher all as a result of teacher feedback.
Grade books like PowerGrade and others were developed over a period of 10 or more years. PowerTeacher, as mentioned above, was built from the ground up as a brand new product, with feedback from thousands of teachers. The goal was to design a grade book from scratch that provides the ultimate user experience.
PowerTeacher is constantly being enhanced. Because of the research and positive teacher feedback, Pearson has chosen PowerTeacher as the grade book solution for all of its student information products.
PowerTeacher will not be the same as PowerGrade. It is not designed as the next version of PowerGrade, and features will work in new and innovative ways.
By having a centralized web-based grade book that is developed as part of the SIS greatly reduces administrative headaches and worries about getting data back to the SIS or the parent access. With PowerTeacher, the parent portal and the SIS get updated automatically, with no additional steps from the teacher.
Teachers also have access to children’s grades across classes. When a student has an issue, teachers can determine if the child is having a problem in all classes (which would indicate an intervention and coordination among teachers), or only in that teacher’s class. Having this information at your fingertips helps teachers make the right decisions about how to best help their students.
Thank you,
Roy Casper
Technology Director
Prairie View School District
