CPS verbal mode is one of the easiest and most powerful questioning techniques that CPS users can incorporate on an everyday basis in the classroom. In this mode, no prior preparation is required (a teacher's dream, isn't it?).

To Create Questions On The Fly:

• Select the "Verbal" option from your database toolbar to engage CPS verbal mode, naming the session and selecting a class or a generic roster to use.
• CPS is now engaged so that at any point during the discussion you can activate the CPS remotes by simply selecting the type of question to be asked.
• Ask questions periodically throughout the session to gain some immediate feedback and check for understanding.
• Questions can be delivered in multiple ways--verbally, from a whiteboard such as the CPS Chalkboard or our full-size interactive whiteboards, a diagram, or any number of questioning techniques that you may use in class.

By incorporating CPS into your lecture or discussion time, you now have access to real-time data that allows you to see immediately what your students are thinking and how well they are processing the material you have covered. For you the teacher, the ability to check on-the-spot understanding periodically throughout your daily lesson without any prior preparation will radically change the effectiveness of your time spent.

Very often, students may find they are way off track with their answer and need to focus in on understanding the material more than they thought. On several occasions we've witnessed classes where students respond to a verbal question using CPS, only to find out that there were several other students thinking along the same lines.

Teachers can benefit from the verbal questioning mode by correcting misconceptions as they teach and students can use this to eliminate some of the fear of being incorrect or asking the "silly question."

Verbal questioning is an excellent way to do polls, voting, rating questions,and allowing students to give a genuine answer to their thoughts without the fear of differing from the group. When your class discussion takes a route that wasn't in your notes, you've still got the ability to implement questioning with clickers.

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• Plan Your Questions

  While planning your lessons, note simple multiple-choice questions in the margins of your lesson plan that you could ask to check for understanding during the course of your lesson.

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• Survey Students During Lecture

  During class discussions, survey students to give every student a voice and the ability to weigh in on the topic of discussion.

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• Pose Questions Over Other Instructional Materials

  Get immediate feedback from students by using CPS verbal mode during lessons delivered with any other instructional materials (ie. maps, video, documents, websites, experiments, class presentations, etc.).

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• Incorporate Homework Questions Into Lecture

  Check if students did their homework by assigning them the development of 2-3 "clicker questions" that they submit to you the next day. Start your lecture by using several of these questions to check for accountability.

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