Inventories

I really liked what I read in the book. If I were to have my students fill out some of these papers that would help me to get to know them, and in helping to get to know them I would be able to know exactly what some of their needs are and then I can differentiate my teaching according to that. When I was going through the information that one of these surveys would provide I was thinking to myself what could I do to get to know my students even more. I came up with an idea of having them bring in something from home that would describe them. It brought me back to what we do in the Morning Meeting and show and tell. I really like this idea because it lets me relate to the students even more personally.

The readings on BB where very interesting to me. I really liked the pre-assessment inventory. Last semester in Field we administered a similar survey, that evaluated the students attitude towards reading. I am a strong believer in these surveys, I believe that they provide us with so much information that is crucial to differentiation teaching. I think that all of the inventories would be valuable to administer in my student teaching, but I realize that probably one or two of them would provide me with the information that I would need. I think that when I have my own class I could administer these inventories throughout the year and then I could compare the results and see how my students are growing and expanding. Before I did this reading assignment I never would have thought to administer one of these pre-assessments. But now that I have read about these surveys I will most definitely have my students fill out some sort of survey or inventory, so I can get to know them and their needs.