Google Classroom: Homework
My oh my, I am in my third year of teaching in the classroom and I have learned so much throughout this experience. Little did I know, one of the biggest things I have changed and had to figure out was my classroom organization. They don't teach or inform a new teacher or potential teacher of the craziness of paperwork. Get to school in the morning, check your mailbox and you have papers. Go to a meeting after school, you have papers. Send home Thursday envelopes and back come papers. Kids turn in tests and assignments, you get even more papers. How in the world did I never pay attention to all the papers when I was in school to become a teacher? Also, why do teacher prep programs not have a class on classroom organization?! I would loved to have paid thousands of dollars for a 3 credit class on how to organize all this paperwork that I will receive throughout the year. Binders vs. filing cabinets. Collecting student work. Collecting parent notes. All of the papers!
One of the biggest things I am trying to incorporate more into my classroom, to reduce all these papers.....GOOGLE! Google forms, google docs, google classroom- anything google related! In the last month, I have had a substitute for two Fridays. It has been so amazing to utilize google while I am absent. My students can be independent for the most part. I assign them their assignments through Google Classroom- they know exactly what to do and how to turn in assignments. I am able to open, comment, grade and return their work- all from my fingertips on my phone.
This past Friday, I had my kids take the last page of their homework assignment (review of place value) and enter their answers into a google form assignment I gave them through google classroom.
I was able to view how many kids turned in the assignment, which kids didn't turn it in, and thanks to Super Quiz, I was able to quickly view who got which answers correct/incorrect. Opened the assignment via classroom, checked their percentages correct and returned their assignment with a score out of 10 (10 questions). I was able to do all of this without having a single homework assignment in my possession.
