Time Saver: Clicker Systems

A mastered technology tool should not cause you more time, but instead, should save you time! Clicker systems, such as Turning Point, are a great example.  

Clicker systems allow students to do formative assessments and interject opinions or conclusions that are instantly recorded and scored.  No more hours grading papers, no more STACKS AND STACKS of papers, and immediate reports to send home with students. Reports that the clicker systems generate can be based on whole class scores, individual student scores, question analyses, and many more.  

Clickers offer students feedback on what they are learning, and offer teachers mid-lesson feedback on what students are grasping and what they need to revisit both individually and as a group.

Turning Point offers the unique ability to either pre-plan a response session (Turning Point 2010), or to use a "teachable moment"  (Turning Point Anywhere), giving the teacher flexibility.

Another perk of this particular system is that Turning Point 2010 is integrated with PowerPoint, which is generally familiar to most educators.  

Many clicker companies also have question banks that can be used to generate assessments.