I think one really great way to use Google Docs with my fellow teachers is to share lesson plans. My first grade teams works collaboratively on lesson plans, letting each teacher create the plans for one subject area. Rather than printing the plans for everyone, we could simply share them through Google Docs and everyone would instantly have them to use! This would also easily allow individual teachers to adapt the plans to better fit the needs of their students before implementing them, and also save on paper!!
As a first grade teacher I think using Google Docs with my students would be hard to do, at least with them editing the document themselves. However I did think that Google Docs would be a great way to create an End of Unit study guide as a class. We could then share it with parents as an extra resource to help their student study for the test. I would let each child add a verbal contribution of something we had learned in that unit, and I could type it into the Google Doc for them! We could compile a class list of the important things we had learned and everyone would have a contribution. This would also encourage parents to get more involved to be able to see what their child had to add to our class study guide!
Also, as a teacher who is always taking working home...I like the fact that if I put something up on Google Docs I can access it from home or school or any computer that I need to and make changes and work on things! Overall, I think Google Docs is a wonderful tool for every teacher, both in and out of the classroom!!!
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