A comment was left on the Keeping Track of Student Progress – Part 3 article from someone who “reluctantly” tried Google docs. I am not selling anything here, and I really don’t care what people use to track their students’ progress, but I too am excited about how versatile Google Docs is, so I wanted to post Marie’s comment here. Here is what Marie writes:
Just letting you know that I reluctantly went ahead and set up the google docs for my students. I wasn’t sure I’d be able to work with the program as you have. Let me tell you – this has been wonderful! I now feel as though I’m more consistent with my students, I feel ‘on-top’ of it all, and its taking less of my time than anything I’ve done previously. I will say that I am unable to juggle the computer as I work with the students (my nature is such that I’m too engaged w/ the students to do both). Here is how I’m using the docs . . .
1. Lesson plan are now easy and quick to set up with your cut and paste suggestions – after I teach when the students are fresh in my mind.
2. Next day – during lunch I review the docs, pull files and fill them w/ necessary materials for teaching (books, teaching/ review sheets etc).
3. Lesson time – I work through the students file I’ve set up -and take very brief notes on what to put into next lesson plan.
4. After lesson – use the google docs to organize next lesson.Great! And thank you so much for sharing this idea with us all!
You are most welcome, Marie! I hope that this series on Keeping Track of Student Progress continues to help all of you teachers! Here are the articles from this series:
Just an update . . . . I now use the google docs to jot down lesson plan ideas as the students are gathering their books to leave – no more pad and pencil! Was just experiencing a little learning curve thats all. Marie