Amy Jones, our eInstruction colleague in Idaho, maintains a great website (www.blueclickers.com) and a great blog called The Clicker Chronicles. She recently blogged about introducing clickers in the classroom. If you’re new to using clickers in the classroom or even are an experienced clicker user with a new set of students coming in, be sure and check out her great ideas!
August 27, 2007 at 9:53 pm |
Excellent idea on introducing clickers, I especially like the Truth or Lies game, I’d never used that. I always encourage teachers to do an “All About Me” activity like you suggested or even use it in many different forms. Use the clickers as a true formative assessment device by intermittently checking for understanding about classroom rules or recess rules, while you’re actually going over them.
Questions like:
How do we line up?
When is the best time to reach Mr. Frank?
Do I accept late work?
Many of these can be very important procedures in your class that every teacher has to go over and bore students to death, but maybe your classroom rules are a little spiced up.
How about greeeting them at the door the 2nd day (Harry Wong) and having a short 3-4 question follow up to the previous days rules all set up on a timed assessment where the students have 30-40 seconds to review each question while you are taking care of administrative duties.
Using CPS as an “anticipatory set” or setting the tone for the class can be a very powerful tool.