Teacher Platform

Within the ASSISTments Teacher platform, there are a plethora of problems that can be adapted to your unique classroom instruction. As a former teacher of 10 years, I always valued Skill Builders as a great way to give students extra practice on a specific standard or skill. There are many ways that Skill Builders can be used in the classroom, but below are a few use cases to help you get started and find success in your students' mastery skills.

As a high school math teacher, I made a promise to myself that I would always uplift and encourage my students when they struggle. I’d remind them that math is a process and learning is a part of the fun. I’d try multiple strategies and ask them “Where do you think we should start?” to provide them with autonomy in their learning process. As I moved into coaching and leadership roles, I was intentional to bring these practices to the forefront of my teachers and leaders minds. 

2023 is nearly here and we have some cool updates coming! You’ll see some simple changes that make the ASSISTments experience more streamlined and other enhancements that will help you customize the experience for your students.

At ASSISTments, our focus has always been on supporting teachers. In this second week of our Season of Giving series, we focus on the tools available within ASSISTments Teacher useful for fostering a growth mindset in students.

ASSISTments released a new Student Support Authoring Tool which allows teachers to create their own customized hints and/or explanations, available directly to the students in their class. When authoring custom hints/explanations, teachers can use consistent vocabulary used in the class, mirror language students are familiar with, and/or walk students through processes led by their teacher.

Meet Nicola Schieb, a recent awardee of the Teacher of the Year award at Alan Shawn Feinstein Middle School of Coventry, who relies on ASSISTments Teacher to enhance her current math curricula. 

Through our partnership with UPchieve, ASSISTments teachers in qualifying Title 1 high schools can now enable expert live tutoring for their students.

Reema Alnizami, head of the math department at Legacy International Online High School shares the student learning benefits she's seen by adding Yup Live Tutoring to her ASSISTments account.

ASSISTments is excited to announce the release of Student Support Authoring, which gives you the freedom to create custom hints and explanations for math problems you are assigning to your students. This new tool affords teachers with the flexibility to add hints and explanations themselves, with language and examples that mirror their instruction. In this way, teachers can provide students with support while they complete ASSISTments problems that match their needs.

When introducing a new classroom tool, sometimes the biggest challenge is in making sure our students see the value in using it. We understand and we’ve got your back!‍ Jump into ASSISTments with confidence using these quick tips for communicating and working with ASSISTments.

When students show their work, it allows teachers to visualize their thought process when working through a problem. The visual feedback gives the teacher the opportunity to understand learning gaps of each student and formulate a plan to fill those learning gaps. Working with paper and pencil can also increase scores by 13 points compared to their peers. Read on to learn how.

ASSISTments teacher, Dawn Peterson reflects on what she does to prepare her students for end of the year testing. Learn how she integrates test preparation without compromising her regular classroom routine.

The ASSISTments team is excited to highlight our partnership with “math teacher multiplier,” Yup. Through this partnership, students in participating teachers’ classrooms can access expert live chat tutoring with the click of a button within their ASSISTments assignment, giving them that extra support they need to achieve success.

ASSISTments is excited to announce that we have partnered with the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) to offer you NCTM’s “Figure This!” problems in ASSISTments.