1. How have you been using the principles of formative assessment in your classroom? What instructional practices have changed?
I have been using the clickers daily in the morning work, end of math time, end of the day. I will use the question generator for adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing practice. I have created several sets of questions that range from easy to hard. I use them to include decimals. This is a good way to practice basic facts and problems with MAP approaching. I have been using them with a premade flip chart about MAP vocabulary. As we review the vocab in the beginning of my SMATH class, then I can quiz them at the end with the clickers and flipchart questions. It's great because I can really see if they understood the terms and how much I still need to review. They are easy to use as a center as well.
2. What successes have you had? Challenges?
I feel as if the use of clickers has been a major success just because of how engaged the students are. The excitement of the clickers hasn't worn off yet. They still come in ready to use them and ask for me to put a clicker activity on throughout the day so they can practice when they finish homework. The challenge is just having the students slow down. They think it has to be a race.
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