Hello everyone!

    I'm a GCU site supervisor and I wanted to share how I am distributing and collecting work for my student teachers. I’ve been working with my teacher candidates via Google Classroom.  Over time I learned how to get the most from this platform, I use it now to store my teaching resources and notes for conferences as well.    My colleagues have mentioned that they use Google Drive to store everything, but for me that can get overloaded, I find I that I need additional structure to help me stay organized!  I use google chat or my phone for meetings and conferences, but Google classroom helps me track everything, and although the students are not set up to interact with each other, they can message me and  post reflections and feedback, and there is also a message area after each assignment if your student has particular questions/comments about that assignment . 

   My students are often happy to see conference dates, assignments, weekly check-ins and announcements all posted in their classroom. Recently I spoke to one student and she said she had general college overwhelm, and was thankful that I made the evaluation part of it clearer for her by putting everything in her Google Classroom!  I would love to hear if anyone else is using this platform, or what are you using instead to optimize your workflow?

Thank you!
Jackie Marinelli