Clicker®

Lynne Grindlay
Kirby Muxloe Primary School Leicester

In my role as SENCO, Deputy Head and Foundation Stage Teacher, I have used Clicker extensively with children of all abilities in both Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2.  One of its main benefits is that it is customisable to the needs of any child – but I have found it especially useful in structuring writing activities for children with Specific Learning Difficulties such as dyslexia. Thinking of one particular child in year 4, Clicker has been a very powerful tool in empowering the transfer of his fantastic ideas to written form.

Working in a whole-class situation, I have found that Clicker comes into its own at the end of a class discussion on any kind of writing activity where children have really enjoyed brainstorming ideas but can then become very disheartened when they realise that they are not going to be able to get their ideas down on paper. By creating vocabulary grids driven by the children, this obstacle has been removed time after time.

"By creating vocabulary grids
driven by the children, this
obstacle has been removed..."Making talking books has been a great ‘way in’ to writing for some of the SEN children I work with. Sequencing of ideas is often a key difficulty with these children and creating a visual record of their stories and ideas has been a great solution to this.

We are getting interactive whiteboards in our school in the near future and I am excited at the prospect of being able to use Clicker on them. Overall, I have found Clicker to be a very powerful tool in supporting my teaching of children across key stages and ability ranges.

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