Product Description
Students are failing because of the way we teach. Our classrooms still rely on lecturing as a means of teaching, but passive lecturing makes our students 50% more likely to fail. Teachers can’t and don’t talk to each student equally. However, when teachers can easily collect and use formative assessment data to adapt and improve their teaching, not only do students learn more, teachers report much higher levels of job satisfaction.
Pear Deck makes it easy and fun for teachers to collect and use that data, connect with all of their students, and feel happier in their jobs.
How It Works
Pear Deck allows teachers to make any presentation interactive so every single student can actively participate right from their own devices.
Teachers can add interactive questions to new slide decks or uploaded PPTs, Google Slides, or PDFs. There are Five Types of Questions: short answer, numeric answer, multiple choice, drawing, and DraggableTM, so teachers can do quick exit tickets or ask open-ended questions that promote critical thinking. The teacher can also embed a third party website like NewsELA or Desmos, allowing students to interact with those sites in a controlled way then seamlessly move the class on to next slide.
The Pear Deck teacher has a super tool: the Session Dashboard! The teacher can see every answer in real time allowing that teacher to know who’s getting it, who needs more help, and to address the most common misconception on the spot. Check out the Getting Started with Pear Deck Video to see us in action.