Google Forms:
As a teacher, we are constantly looking for ways to gather information quickly and efficiently. While teaching in the fifth grade classroom I used Google Forms to help with the pre-assessment, assessment, and evaluations. For an example, I taught fifth grade Social Studies. Before teaching the unit on Native Americans, I would ask the student to take a quick pre-assessment questionnaire at home. Here is an example of the questionnaire that I would have the students fill out.
After the students filled out the questionnaire, I would evaluate the responses and modify my lessons according to what the results were. Not only did this give me a quick understanding of the background knowledge the students have about Native Americans but it also gave the students a chance to be a part of the lesson planning. The students loved looking at the results after the lesson was finished because it gave them a sense of growth. “This is what you started out the lesson knowing, and look at what you know now.”
Yes, it takes a little of bit of time to set up the pre-assessment forms but once I have created them in Google Docs, they will always be in Google Docs. So the next time you teach the lesson, just resend out the same questionnaire.
Post Assessment Using Google Forms
In the same fashion that I created the pre-assessment, I would also create the post assessment. However, this time I would have the students take the test in my classroom. I only had five computers in my classroom so I created a rotation chart for the students. While five students were taking the test, the other students would be working on a Native American Project. I would rotate through the students until all of the students completed the test. I had some students that would also prefer to take the tests by paper and pencil or some would want to have the test read out loud to them. For those students that wanted to take the paper pencil test, I would have a copy of the test and they would take the test at their seat. For those students that wanted the test read out loud to them, I would recreate the test questions in power point. I pre recorded my voice on the power point slide show and the students would listen to each question and each question choice. The student would mark his/her answer on the answer sheet.
Not only did I meet the needs of every students learning styles but I also created less grading for me. I only had to grade ten papers out of seventy-eight papers. Once again, it took time to set up the test but in the end, I was saving time by not having to grade so many papers. The best part was, that the next time I taught the lesson; I already had the test created.
Evaluations using Google Forms
In the same way that I would use Google Forms from pre-assessment and post assessments, I would also use Google Forms for evaluations. So many times, parents and students want to give feedback to a teacher on how the school year is going and what changes could be made to make the communication run more smoothly. Of course as a teacher, we have so much other stuff to do that we don’t have time to listen to what other have to say about our classroom. But the more input you have from other looking into to your classroom, the more efficient and productive your classroom will become. This process will start to eliminate the frustration from both the students and the parents. Let’s admit it, we are not always the teacher of the year and yes we tend to make mistakes. So rather than just avoiding them, lets try to work through them by creating an Evaluation Form. This evaluation form can be sent out monthly, weekly, by semesters, or even just at the end and start of the year. It just depends on how much feedback you would like to gather from the parents and students. Here is an example of the Evaluation form that I created for my fifth grade classroom.
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