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Google Docs

Materials required
Implementation procedure
Strategy in practice

  • Computers/iPads (for you and students)

  • An Internet connection

  • Google docs or other such software

  1. At the start of class, make sure students who want them are set up with computers.

  2. Ensure that the Google document is shared with your students and has read/edit access. Direct them to navigate to the document you have created.

  3. Encourage students to enter their questions in the document during class as and when they come up.

  4. Allocate time at the end of each class to answer the questions that have been populated in the document.

Nathan teaches introductory statistics to tenth grade students. He is aware that many students find the subject daunting and often hesitate to ask questions. Therefore, he has created a Google doc and shared it with the students.

 

At the beginning of each class, he writes the  web address to the Google doc on the board and reminds the students to enter their questions into the document as and when they think of them. The last 15 minutes of each class session is reserved for Nathan to go through the questions in the Google doc and answer them in class.

He thanks the students for asking the questions and encourages them to reach out to him for any additional clarification. The students have reported feeling more comfortable posing questions via this route, so he has continued to employ it consistently.

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