Google Form Get to Know You Questionnaires
When I start the year off with new students or have one pop up mid year I always used to struggle with how to easily learn about them and remember everything they told me. I used to have them complete worksheets and then file them away to never look at again. Some I’d lose or toss them out by accident. Leaving me to ask the same questions again because I couldn’t remember, for the life of me, how they answered the questionairre. After a while, I’d definitely learn their interests and it would stick, but the beginning of the year or the middle of the year with a brand new student thrown in can make it really hard to remember every detail the student shared. That’s why I started using a google questionnaire that both my students and families have to complete. Today I am sharing all about it for anyone else who may be struggling with organizing their “get to know you” resources.
The reason that I love that this resources is a google form is because I can be anywhere and have access to it. When I was working in person I used to keep everything in a file cabinet and honestly wouldn’t look at it again because I am a person who like to prep at home a lot! The google form allows me to have access to all of my students and parents information 24/7 which is helpful when it’s early in the morning and I’m prepping a lesson last minute for a new student and can’t remember for the life of me what Disney character theme I need to use.
I’ve also learned that relationships in our classrooms are such an important piece to helping our students grow. There is even some awesome brain science to back up this claim.
According to Understood.org building positive relationships can:
Build Motivation
Create Safe Spaces for Learning
Build New Pathways for Learning
Improve Student Behavior
The possibilities are truly endless with a google form because I can use it with my students who need more assistance and type in their responses, send it to my more independent students to do on their own, and have families complete it to ensure I am creating a community learning environment.
I have created this awesome Tell Me About Yourself Google Form that you can make a copy of and edit to fit your students. It offers a great starter template for your classroom relationship building needs. You can check it out on my Teachers Pay Teachers to download it now to add to your teacher toolbox and start building your classroom community today.
Detailed sample of my Guardian/Student Questionnaire Tell Me About Yourself on my Teachers Pay Teachers