Skills are smaller components of larger units of learning. For example, Phonological awareness (PA) is a smaller component of the larger unit of reading. Word awareness, syllable awareness, onset-rime awareness, and phonemic awareness are smaller components of PA
When setting up the district skill dictionary....
(1) Identify skills that students can work on to strengthen their grade level (academic, behavioral, socio - emotional) achievement
(2) Choose skills that have a CBM (progress monitor)
(3) Use skill names that are unique because the same skill cannot be monitored more than once in an intervention group. For example, do not use "Fluency" Choose - oral reading fluency, letter naming fluency, passage reading fluency, etc.
Skill Dictionary
You must have ion district administrator privileges to perform this task.
To manage the skills available to a user in ion, navigate your browser to "Admin > Dictionaries > Skill Dictionary."
Adding a new Skill
To add a new skill, click the "Plus" icon in the top right corner of the panel.
1. Complete the fields in the "Setup" panel that appears.
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Name the skill
- If you have several of the same skill, name them differently
- Example - Letter Naming Fluency, Oral Reading Fluency, etc.
- If you have several of the same skill, name them differently
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Select type from drop down
- This type must be the same as the CBM and Intervention Type
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Category
- This item will be the major category for the selected skill
- Example - Weekly Attendance is the Skill
- Attendance is the category under the Type "Behavior"
- This item will be the major category for the selected skill
2. Click to "enable" the skill.
3. Click the "Save" icon in the top right corner of the Setup panel to save.
Disable/Hide an existing Skill
You cannot delete a skill once they have been added. You can, however, disable that skill, preventing it from popping up in a selection tool when adding skills to a student plan.
This allows the data that has been attached to historical skills to remain in the system.
- To disable a skill, uncheck the "enabled" box that corresponds with the skill you wish to hide.
- The skill "eye" icon is now red with a slash through it, indicating that it has been disabled. This means it will not be available for selection when building Intervention Groups.
