At Interactive Whiteboards Australia, we are very excited to be able to provide new understandings around the best student response systems. This is an exceptional opportunity for schools to get the most from each and every student in their school.

In general, effective use of student response systems requires a pedagogical change from the teachers in order to achieve meaningful results. However these results do speak for themselves.

Response solutions enable teachers to achieve continuous participation and assessment of every student in the class. Because students can participate without fear of disclosing individual performance to the group, every student’s involvement is retained for the entire lesson.

Properly used, response soloutions enable easy, real-time formative assessment: Teachers know exactly how well the group as a whole understands the material and a teacher can determine instantly within the session whether to revise key concepts, or to progress to new ones, so that teaching and learning is far better tuned to the actual needs of the group. Furthermore, the teacher can instantly identify individual students' needs, and easily tailor forward sessions or differentiated activities to suit. Because the solutions track individual students progress against learning objectives longitudinally, differentiated practice is finally made simple and practical for the teacher.

We would love to provide you with a free, no obligation workshop at your school, in which your staff can experience first hand the classroom practices used to achieve the above outcomes. To take us up on this opportunity, email alistair@einstruction.com.au or call him on 0458 324 814.

In Optivote and Wordwall, IWA brings two complementary solutions to our classrooms.

Optivote's choice of IR and RF systems suit every need and budget, and provide instant assessment capability to any classroom.  Download brochure here.

Wordwall's Cleverclick solution extends the amazing Wordwall software, enabling every student to send text contributions to the whiteboard for the whole class to see.  These can be easily transformed, merged, and copied into other applications.