Reflection

Google Classroom is a great way to help me stay organized and easily share with students resources of variety of types. It is also a great way to turn in assignments in a way that is always accessibly for both students and teachers.

Google Classroom is like a one-stop shop... everything that students need for a class can be right in it.  Google Classroom helps keep all assignments in one place. They can be organized by week, topic, subject, etc. Assignments and topics can be color-coded which really helps students. I know that color coding helps me! Google Classroom is an amazing tool that can help students and teachers. 

Having digital items all in one place can be accessed easily by the students. Sharing items with my Health and Wellness teammates can help us to prepare lessons. Having online assignments can help us keep track of student work and provide feedback.

This was a great reminder of the available features in Google Classroom. I like using topics to keep things organized in the Classwork tab; I usually categorize topics by chapters or units. This helps to keep students organized (even though they prefer to just endlessly scroll the stream looking for things!). I also like the ability to provide more personalized feedback on assignments (grading resumes is sooo much easier in Google!). 

Google Classroom makes it easy to organize information and set up an online learning platform for students. Through the use of Topic Headings, I can easily organize classroom content either by unit or by date. This makes it easy for students and parents to access information at a glance. It helps students organize their own notes and information as well.

The variety of assignment options and settings provide an interactive way for students to engage in learning, as well as catch up on what they've missed when absent. As a music teacher, I love that there is an option to post YouTube videos - this is an easy way to share music with my students! This way, they can access some of the music we explore in class at home, too!

Within those options for class material and assignments, Google Classroom implements a variety of settings that allow for effective classroom management with ease. For example, there are settings that allow only one assignment submission from each student. There are settings that allow the teacher to implement a due date and even a specific time. Google Classroom even added an option to "lock" student chromebooks, so that they cannot access other tabs while taking a quiz. These settings allow the teacher to customize each assignment and posting to suit their specific classroom needs. 

By posting things other than daily notes.  I post a link to a google form that allows students to tell me daily what homework questions to go over.  That way they don't have to ask in class if they are shy. This makes class time efficient as I know before even starts what questions we are going to talk about.  I like that by posting an assignment is different from material, question, etc.  Students know immediately what they are responsible completing and which posts are for reference.  I have never used emojis before to help visually separate posts or topics.  Looking to add this touch for quick visual reference.  Thank you. 

Google classroom will help improve  my ability to support students in many ways.  It allows me to easily help keep students organized. This is especially helpful for certain students that struggle with this. I know I was definitely one of those kids. You can easily organize materials, quizzes, tests, videos, worksheets, as well as list due dates, reminders, and general statements. It is also a great way to streamline the use of other digital software by easily linking sites.

Google Classroom has a couple of benefits we have learned about:

• Emojis are a simple technique that allows you to quickly show students what part/ type of content you are posting.  This can help the kids stay more organized.
• I use often the "make a copy for each student" for my labs.  Even when I "hand out" completely blank google sheets for students to graph/ organize data.  It lets me/ the students stay more organized and less of a chance students run into problems like losing the assignment. 
• I have never tried both the online quiz or question.  I like the idea that questions can have student interact and discuss with each other which is always a good way for students to learn.  

Knowing how to organize and easily use emojis will help students and families navigate the classroom with ease.  I think this will also allow better communication in and out of the classroom. 

This served as a great refresher for my use of Google Classroom. I really liked the quiz portion, as I was unaware of this tool that could be used through Google Classroom. I also liked the locked mode feature so if my students were taking a quiz through the Google Classroom, they couldn't open up other tabs to look up answers.  I have forgotten about the question feature. I used to use this feature quite a bit, especially during COVID. I think I'll start using this feature again as my students had a great deal of fun with this.

This again was a great refresher of all of the options google class has from posting notes, assignments, materials , and creating quizzes.  The grading aspect of grading quizzes may intrigue me me as I move next year into more exit tickets. 

The commodity that I will definitely use moving forward is the reuse of posts. Each year I basically use the same notes, materials and homework's.  This will save me time uploading and spending time finding files.