Using Google Forms to track behavior

Since everything is better in a Google app, I decided to track behavior this year in a Google Form. Mine looks like this:

Here’s why I’m loving it:

• It’s really quick and easy to log. When a student misbehaves, I can fill this form out in less than two minutes.
• It’s cathartic: instead of dwelling on the incident, once I’ve logged it, I can move forward, but I have a record to access when I need it.
• But it gets even better, the simple analytics that Google provides in the Responses helps me to reflect on my practices.
• When is misbehavior happening?

• What kind of misbehaviors are occurring?

*Sidenote: this data is skewed because some of my choices on my form disappeared for no apparent reason and had to be re-added…

• What am I doing to respond to misbehaviors and is my response making a positive difference?

• It’s also been helpful in team meetings to be able to bring up students I have concerns about because I have all the information in one organized place. Go to the Sheets in Responses and reorder alphabetically: now if a student has multiple entries, they are grouped together.

And of course I have this form saved in an easily accessible place on my bookmark bar: It’s the form represented by “B” for behavior. :

@gttribe #gsuite #GAFE