Clicker®
Case Studies
Debbie Shinners
Manor Green College Special School Crawley
I work with a class of students with severe learning difficulties aged 14–16. I find Clicker a very adaptable accessory to support and enhance activities across the whole curriculum. Clicker allows me to create grids for specific children to promote reading and writing activities. Most of my students cannot write or even hold a pen correctly, but the use of Clicker allows them to create sentences by making use of the speech output.
"We have recently completed a Rainforest topic..."I use Clicker across the curriculum to support and enhance their learning. We have recently completed a Rainforest topic where we set up a Clicker Grid with the key vocabulary and wrote about in which layer the animals live e.g. canopy, understory or forest floor. We have also just had a new an interactive whiteboard in the classroom which has enhanced the use of Clicker as a whole-class teaching resource.
I regularly download grids from LearningGrids for use in the class. For a recent Human Body topic, we were able to use the great resources on the LearningGrids site for labelling the body.
It is also easy to provide differentiation for our pupils. Some of our more able children can develop their writing and reading skills and sentence structure using specific grids for their needs. Clicker provides a great way for my students to improve the skills that most children take for granted.
"Clicker has allowed them to experience 'writing'..."Presentation is another key area where Clicker has really helped to support and motivate our children. We provide sets of grids with pictures which enable them to write sentences and create a piece of work that they can be proud of. What a fantastic way of providing a neat and tidy piece of work, which they then delight in seeing displayed on the wall. Clicker has allowed them to experience 'writing' and helped develop their language and vocabulary.
Clicker has enabled the students in my class to access the curriculum at an appropriate level and develop and enhance their literacy skills. It has given them much broader access to the curriculum in a stimulating and motivating way.
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