Getting to know your students
Collaborative Presentation
- Generate a collaborative photo album to which students submit photos of themselves.
- Make a copy of this presentation
- Change the title to represent your class
- Assign each student a page number and ask them to change the name, photograph, and data with their personal information. The photographs can be inserted by right-clicking on the existing photo and replacing the URL with the URL of their photos in the collaborative photo album.
- Ask students to find another student with similar hobbies or interests and introduce themselves.
- Each pair of students will then stand and introduce each other when their personal slides are displayed on the class screen.
Construct a student survey
Construct a student survey
Build your own survey
- Review the questions generated by your colleagues.
- Select questions you think are the most appropriate and generate a collaborative electronic questionnaire with the help of your colleagues. Try to create multiple choice, choose from a list, grid, scale, and checkbox questions as they provide an opportunity for instant analysis.
- Once the collaborative survey is created, make a copy of the survey and then adapt it to your needs by adding, deleting and editing questions
The following prompts may help you think of good questions to ask:
Informational questions
- What are your hobbies?
- What extracurricular activities are you involved in?
- What profession/occupation are you most interested in?
- Do you plan to go to college? If so, where would you like to go?
- Do you know anyone (other than a teacher) who has gone to college? If so, who?
- What other science classes have you taken?
- Why did you enroll in this class?
Free response. Complete the following sentences...
- My friends are…
- School is…
- I can’t understand why…
- I feel bad when…
- I wish my teachers…
- The best thing about me is…
- If I could change one thing about myself, I would change…
- Going to college is…
- People think I…
- On weekends, I…
- My family…
- To me, homework is…
- I hope I’ll never…
- When I finish high school…
- I’m afraid when…
- I am at my best when…