The Problem
I had a class I hated teaching. It started when "rape" was one of the words to be taught that day (apparently it is in a bigger list of 2000 "most frequent vocabulary words). In my teaching career, I'd never felt more frustrated about the material I was given and told to teach. Let's just say we did something different that day. Ever since, I've dreaded teaching that class.
The Idea
To shake the bad feelings off, I decided to put my heart into making teaching these 2000 words better. So I went to work and asked coworkers to contribute. Great time for a Google Doc.
Share a document with other co-workers of different teaching ideas. There should be a general goal and some guidelines. For this, I found a common problem and tried to address solutions together.
After you frame what you want the document to cover, make it. I just used Google Drive for this. Click the create a new document button. Name it. Click the share button, and then click "change" to so that it can be edited by who ever you want.
The frame of this example:
Go here to add your own ideas, be sure to write your name (if you wish) so you can get credit!
Write a comment if you can think of any other ways to use Google Documents.
What to Do
Share a document with other co-workers of different teaching ideas. There should be a general goal and some guidelines. For this, I found a common problem and tried to address solutions together.
After you frame what you want the document to cover, make it. I just used Google Drive for this. Click the create a new document button. Name it. Click the share button, and then click "change" to so that it can be edited by who ever you want.
Example
The frame of this example:
- Create a 10 minute lesson
- Little to no preperatoin
- To be used with 10 words
Go here to add your own ideas, be sure to write your name (if you wish) so you can get credit!
Write a comment if you can think of any other ways to use Google Documents.
