Google Forms

I run our after-school program at my middle school. So we can figure out where students are quickly and easily. I have teachers or club/activity sponsors fill out the following google form:

http://poeravensnest.weebly.com/attendance.html 

Google forms can be found within a gmail account under the "drive". You can set up a google account for free. 

The results can be downloaded into an excel spreadsheet that you can sort easily and quickly. I love it! It will take up to 500 submissions but you can allow more by scrolling to the bottom of the spreadsheet in google and it will tell you to "add ___ more rows" put in as many as you would like.

I also use google forms for the following things in my classroom:

• Warm Ups
• Exit Tickets
• Quizzes
• Student Information - in the beginning of the school year or quarter
• Back to School Night - to collect parent information
• Quick Checks of students
• Surveys
• Pre-assessments
• Reviewing for tests

A cool feature I like about the google forms is, if you use multiple choice as an answer option, you can send students to different pages - depending on what they answer. It seems confusing at first to set up, but google is extremely user friendly.

You can embed your forms into a website like I did above or you can share it with students if they have school email addresses like we do that is apart of google. 

I love it!! If you have any questions, send me an email ohmissteacher@gmail.com I'd be happy to help you out!

Until next time...

OH Miss Teacher

QR Code

I was given this awesome website from a friend for QR Codes if you have a chance to check it out, you should. We had mini-conferences at my school so I posted the following piece of paper on the table, so parents and students could get in contact with me.

Contact Oh Miss Teacher! Use your smartphone. 

*You do need an app on your phone to use QR Codes. 

Have fun making them!!

Hand Signals

I am absolutely the biggest fan of hand signals. Not only does it help lower the amount of distractions within your classroom, it also help students not get up and leave your classroom as often. I use sign language to help me with me - R for Restroom, W for Water, and I do a thumbs up or thumbs down in response. I went over it the first day of school and remind them occasionally but they love it!

I got these images from clikr.com

I put a border around them in Word and put the word for what they stand for underneath. You can download them here

I also do "Check ins" students give me a thumbs up, thumbs sideways, or thumbs down if they are not understanding what we are going over. It helps me decide if my students are ready to keep going or not.
I liked Mrs. Gilchrist's example below and added my thumbs down to it. I'll post a picture of it later :)