Fulfilling the Promise/ pre-assesments

Fulfilling the Promise- We would could get a lot of information about our students from these surveys. I want to teach first grade and some of the questions in the student profile survey seem like they would be difficult for a first grader to answer. I don't' think as a first grader I would have known whether I was logical, creative, good or not so good at planing, whether I like to know the big picture or not... I would want to think I was all of these things but whether it was true, i don't know. I think it is important to learn these thing about our students, but maybe by having them doing selected activities, you could learn these things about your students. Maybe put them in situations to where we can see if they are a leader or more of a follower and when doing an art project, you could see if a child is creative or not. It would be nice if first graders could tell us the best way they learn so we can start from the beginning teaching them like that, but I don't know if they would know themselves. Older grades would be able to answer more questions honestly, so I would definitely try to do it in the older grades. I think I would add more interests like I like football, I like Dance, I like to read.. etc. I think by knowing these things, we find out a lot about how they learn. A child who is bug into sports and is physical, may learn best with hands on activities. I think the student interest survey would work better for a first grade because it ask more about interests and first graders know what they like. I think that also, this survey could be something that is taken home to the parents and they could give their input because they may know more about how their child learns.

I would use this inventory to find out the interest in my classroom. If there is a certain thing that stands out in the students likes, I could definitely incorporate it more in class with finding stories in that interest etc. Also, if I know what my students are struggling with I can try to be more prepared for it. Even with the things they are good at, I could find a student who is good in one subject help another who may be struggling. It is so important to know our students so any information we can get about their interests or how we learn will be very beneficial to us as teachers.

Pre-Assessments- I really like the first page about attitudes and interest of reading. It has pictures and I think that first graders would be able to relate better when they see the smiley and frowny faces. I definitely feel this one would have potential because I would be learning about their interests as well by finding out what they like to read about and whether they like to read or not. If children like reading about animals, that is probably a general interest of theirs. Some of the other sheets were similar or seemed for older grades, sO mostly I am thinking I would use the first few sheets.