Classroom Voting Minicourse at the Joint Mathematics Meetings

At the January 2009 Joint Mathematics Meetings in Washington, DC, sponsored by the Americal Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Assocation of America, I’m co-facilitating a four-hour minicourse titled “Teaching with Clickers and Classroom Voting.”  My partners are Kelly Cline, Mark Parker, and Holly Zullo of Carroll College.  If you’re heading to the JMM and have an interest in clickers, feel free to sign up for the minicourse or find me at the conference.  If you have a colleague in mathematics who’s heading to the JMM, feel free to let them know about the minicourse, too.

Here’s the blurb:

Classroom response systems, or “clickers”, are instructional technologies that enable teachers to rapidly collect and analyze students’ responses to multiple-choice questions. In this minicourse participants will learn how to use clickers to transform the way they use class time–promoting active participation, engagement, and discussion among students; assessing student learning in real-time during class; and adapting lessons to respond to the particular learning needs of one’s students. This minicourse will also feature a question-writing “workshop” and a mock clicker class as ways to explore the kinds of questions and activities that make the most of teaching with clickers.