There's no doubt teachers are challenged in the classroom today.  Large classes and over-stimulated students are difficult to teach.  Frustrated administrators can give an assessment to determine the student's level of knowledge, but are still challenged by the need to improve the students retention before assessment.

The solution is to engage them, all of them, during the lesson so lessons become more interesting and effective.  But how do you do it when there are 30 students or more?

Give each student their own remote response system, called "clickers" by some!

Since einstruction introduced the concept of the classroom performance system and engaging all students 10 years ago, over 2 million students are using it.

Teachers have found it effective because unlike some of the simple voting systems available on the market, this Classroom Performance System gives not only instant feedback for the teacher but also instant analysis with over 20 different reports.

What's the value of the analysis?

Recently I worked with a teacher who used the CPS system and discovered a child who couldn't do problems with the number "6".

Could it be that child was dyslexic, the teacher asked?   After talking with an adult who was dyslexic we discovered that many students are never diagnosed and go through school having great difficulty identifying "6" from "9" or the word "saw" from "was".  It makes them feel stupid because they can't understand why others seem to grasp it so quickly, leading to lowered self esteem and lowered performance in school.

Without the CPS einstruction system it's difficult to identify students who are struggling with lessons until it's too late, at test time.  As they get further and further behind, many students just give up.

With the CPS, teachers have the ability to capture answers as they teach and can identify those who need help along the way.

eInstruction's Classroom Performance System allows teachers to involve students in learning by asking questions as they teach and getting answers through "clickers" which are actually numbered remote response pads.

As far as students are concerned, the answers appear anonymous so other students can't embarrass them.  However, after class the teachers can access special instant reports that were generated from the "clicks".  The responses appear, by student name, in the teachers reports for analysis.

Inside the system, a teacher can review the lesson and identify students who need additional help.  They can also identify areas where the whole class needs more instruction, including ability to pass standards based tests. 

It's exciting when technology has come this far that students actually learn by being engaged in the lesson, yet they think of it as fun. 

Even more exciting is the solution to teachers issues of how to teach so many students in such a short time and really make a difference in their education.  The Classroom Performance System is a solid solution.