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Features and Benefits

Using AutoSkill products, you can maximize your time in the classroom by facilitating training and focusing on the students who need your expertise most. Advantages include:

Proven Reading and Math Intervention

  • Academy of READING is based on original neuroscience research and patented algorithms for subskills diagnosis and automaticity
  • Academy of MATH is designed on the research-based methodology for subskills instruction
  • Solutions combine automated placement and individual training programs (ITPs) to move students through training
  • Efficacy studies demonstrate rapid and permanent gains in at-risk students

Individualized Instruction

  • Extends the services of a reading and math specialist to each at-risk learner
  • Effective with a wide range of student populations and skill levels, including elementary, middle and high school, ELL, special education, and Title 1
  • Supplements teaching efforts with automated placement and multiple individualized training programs (ITPs) designed to build skill mastery
  • Adaptive intervention engine modifies student training streams based on their responses and demonstration of skill mastery
  • Mandatory tutorial and practice sessions ensure tasks are well understood before the student progresses through the skills training

Student Motivation

  • Engaging motivation elements and a skill mastery instructional design keep students progressing towards success
  • Customizable graphics and age-appropriate content for elementary, middle and high school students make the products effective for use with a wide range of students and skill levels
  • Constant positive reinforcement, buddy characters, rewards (trophies and certificates), and puzzles keep students motivated and engaged in their learning
  • Progress screens enable students to track their own progress

Formative Instruction

  • Automated in-product student and class reports help ease daily task planning for busy teachers
  • Visual indicators help teachers pinpoint problems, view progress at a glance and immediately identify if students are struggling and where
  • Suggestions specific to each skill area are provided to teachers when Teacher Time is introduced, helping teachers determine potential courses of action for a specific student
  • Teachers can temporarily modify student training "on the fly" to help prevent students from getting stuck