Stick Pick is an iOS app that allows teachers to differentiate instruction through questioning students at their appropriate readiness level. It allows teachers to create classes, add students, designate each student's assessment mode based on frameworks like Bloom's Taxonomy, and generate questions tailored to each student's level. Teachers can then "stick pick" to randomly call on students, track responses and scores, and export performance data to share with others. The app provides a more personalized form of differentiated instruction compared to previous techniques like popsicle sticks or cards.

1. STICK PICK
F O R A C C O U N TA B L E
D I F F E R E N T I AT E D I N S T R U C T I O N
By Cara Onofre

2. Why differentiated instruction?
 Ensures that student learning, and how the student
demonstrates what s/he has learned, is an
appropriate match for the student’s current readiness
level
 Dynamic, student centered methodology
 Successfully engages students in whole group, small
group, or individualized instruction

3. Previous techniques to differentiate
instruction
Method Challenges
 Popsicle sticks  Can’t designate student’s
 Clothespins appropriate readiness
level for subject
 Deck of Cards
 Cannot record student’s
(Opportunity Cards)
results nor track
progress
 Can’t easily separate
students by subject
 Can become lost

4. Introducing…STICK PICK
 Works on iPhone, iPad,
iPod w/ iOS 3.2 or later
 Average of 4+ Stars
 $2.99 in iTunes App
store
 Designed by a Teacher

5. 1. Create your class
 Straight-forward
 Allows you to create
separate
classes/subjects

6. 2. Add a student
 Simply enter the
student’s first and last
name

7. 3. Set student’s appropriate mode of assessment
 Bloom’s Taxonomy
 Bloom’s Revised
 ESL
 Stick Only

8. 4. Choose degree of assessment
 Bloom’s Taxonomy
 Knowledge
 Comprehension
 Application
 Analysis
 Synthesis
 Evaluation

9. 4. Choose degree of assessment
 Bloom’s Revised
Taxonomy
 Remembering
 Understanding
 Applying
 Analyzing
 Evaluating
 Creating

10. 4. Choose degree of assessment
 ESL
 Beginning
 Early Intermediate
 Intermediate
 Early Advanced
 Advanced

11. Finished Compiling Students
View roster Copy roster for other subject

12. You’re finished!
Now stick pick!
 Shake
 Tap
 Sound (off or on)
 Left hand mode

13. More Personalized Form of Differentiated
Instruction
 Stick Pick develops
question stems based
on the student’s
designated level
 After student is called
you can reset stick to
class be called on
again
 To prevent duplicates,
stick can be marked as
used

14. Examples of a more personalized differentiated
instruction
Bloom’s Taxonomy Revised –
Bloom’s Taxonomy
Understanding

15. Evaluate the student’s assessment
Correctness Score using rubric

16. Rubric variation
 Rubric changes
according to the mode
of assessment specific
to the student

17. Archives scores
 View each individual
student’s responses
 View each student’s
mode and level
 View date, response
and scores according
to the appropriate
rubric

18. Export and Share Student’s Progress
 Email student’s
participation to:
 Yourself
 Counselors
 Parents
 Other Teachers
 Interventionists
 Stakeholders

19. Questions? Comments?
THANK YOU!