If you want to be a really effective teacher, get a laser pointer! They cause only a dollar or two at most and really help a teacher effectively modify curriculum.
With a laser pointer, you can be helping a student and very quickly point to what you are talking about: spelling, a picture, a thing and facilitate student understanding. Like other forms of modification – using pictures, underlining key vocabulary, dictionaries, highlighters, a laser pointer effectively helps students understand and learn.
If you really want to get spiffy, get a pointer that also works with power point. Then you can move around the classroom while controlling the presentation. Students at the back of the class will love you!
This post was submitted by David Deubelbeiss.
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