Debbie, You have demonstrated great perseverance through this project so far... If you treat these issues as "bumps" you will certainly overcome them (as you plan to over the summer). Keep pushing. It is good to hear that clickers are more desired than candy...the big middle school contender. :) From the sounds of it, you have significant results that prove that clickers have a place in your classroom. Well done! ~chuck
Despite your second half of the day, it seems that for the most part your implementation was a success. I LOVE the fact that you incorporated pictures (I may steal that idea from you, I hope you do not mind). What a wonderful piece of technology to have in your school and classroom. Keep up the great work!
Ok, I have to say that I was really confused at first with everyone saying they loved the pictures as they were not viewable at first to me. But now that I see them I also love them, nicely done!
As soon as you started mentioning unexpected problems I thought of handing the clickers out. I remember trying not only to hand them out but also to retrieve them again at the end of class when students were just walking out and shoving them in any slot rather than in numerical order. I'm glad you've already thought of a way to solve this for next year.
I love the instant data feedback that you get from this and that you used it to modify future questions and responses. In math this is extremely valuable as students too often aren't willing to admit when they don't understand something.
I'm glad you got it to work in at least a few of your classes. You may have said in previous posts how many questions you ask to get started, but I don't recall so I was curious, how many questions do you ask with the clickers?
Also, I love that you can actually put up their names. On my clickers before only the number showed so I would be shouting out numbers, not actually knowing who had that number, if they hadn't answered yet.
However, my favorite part is the amount of data you can get from the clickers. You can run a report and see exactly who answered which questions and what their answers were as well as an overall of how many they got right. It makes the process really easy to quickly see who might need extra help.
I hope you also will consider using these for a review game. In the class where I student taught I gave all of the students a multiple choice review guide to work on and then we used the clickers to go over the answers. They should have already completed the worksheet so answering goes quicker and you as the teacher can instantly see which problems need the most additional explanation.
I have often found (especially my first two years of teaching) that distribution of materials (in my case it is often supplies for labs) takes so much time! I love that you have planned to move the numbers on the clickers so that this is part of the students' routines when they enter your classroom. I think it will be awesome to start the year out next year with that routine in place. I hope it starts to work for all your classes!
Debbie,
ReplyDeleteYou have demonstrated great perseverance through this project so far... If you treat these issues as "bumps" you will certainly overcome them (as you plan to over the summer). Keep pushing.
It is good to hear that clickers are more desired than candy...the big middle school contender. :) From the sounds of it, you have significant results that prove that clickers have a place in your classroom.
Well done!
~chuck
Despite your second half of the day, it seems that for the most part your implementation was a success. I LOVE the fact that you incorporated pictures (I may steal that idea from you, I hope you do not mind). What a wonderful piece of technology to have in your school and classroom. Keep up the great work!
ReplyDeleteAlthough you've faced challenges with this project, it sounds like overall it was successful! I love the pictures you used!
ReplyDeleteOk, I have to say that I was really confused at first with everyone saying they loved the pictures as they were not viewable at first to me. But now that I see them I also love them, nicely done!
ReplyDeleteAs soon as you started mentioning unexpected problems I thought of handing the clickers out. I remember trying not only to hand them out but also to retrieve them again at the end of class when students were just walking out and shoving them in any slot rather than in numerical order. I'm glad you've already thought of a way to solve this for next year.
I love the instant data feedback that you get from this and that you used it to modify future questions and responses. In math this is extremely valuable as students too often aren't willing to admit when they don't understand something.
I'm glad you got it to work in at least a few of your classes. You may have said in previous posts how many questions you ask to get started, but I don't recall so I was curious, how many questions do you ask with the clickers?
Also, I love that you can actually put up their names. On my clickers before only the number showed so I would be shouting out numbers, not actually knowing who had that number, if they hadn't answered yet.
However, my favorite part is the amount of data you can get from the clickers. You can run a report and see exactly who answered which questions and what their answers were as well as an overall of how many they got right. It makes the process really easy to quickly see who might need extra help.
I hope you also will consider using these for a review game. In the class where I student taught I gave all of the students a multiple choice review guide to work on and then we used the clickers to go over the answers. They should have already completed the worksheet so answering goes quicker and you as the teacher can instantly see which problems need the most additional explanation.
Great job with this!
Debbie,
ReplyDeleteI have often found (especially my first two years of teaching) that distribution of materials (in my case it is often supplies for labs) takes so much time! I love that you have planned to move the numbers on the clickers so that this is part of the students' routines when they enter your classroom. I think it will be awesome to start the year out next year with that routine in place. I hope it starts to work for all your classes!
Stacy