First off, I really like how these worksheets remain positive. Instead of asking what you are bad at in school it asks, What's hard for you? and , What makes it hard? I also like where the students can list things like me and not like me. Its not, what I like and what I hate. I just really think its important to be positive about all things right from the beginning.
You can get to know your students pretty well by doing these surveys. If you have them do these before school starts and you get that back you can try to group your students accordingly. For example you can group the kids that sit still when they learn with the wigglers so you don't have 15 wigglers all next to each other. Hopefully by putting the wigglers next to those students who sit still you will get everyone to sit still rather than everyone wiggling. I don't even know if that makes sense! Hopefully the still kids will rub off on the wigglers... (in a perfect classroom I guess.. haha) It might be good to group kids that have things in common for the first few weeks of school just so they already have instant friends. They are able to make connections with those students. You can also group kids with differences so they get to know more about other people and learn new things that they wouldn't have previously.
This is something that you did at the beginning of the year... did you use them for something?
What would I like to add or remove from the survey?
I had a harder time doing the first survey with the different columns. It was harder for me to separate the like me and the not like me. Maybe it's because I don't know myself well enough or that I don't think I am very good at anything... who knows. I don't like that you can't put things in the middle. I think that if I did it I would add a column called "sometimes like me", because sometimes I like math and am good at it but sometimes I'm not and I think that it should be included.
Do any of these hold potential for me in my student teaching classroom? Explain. If they don't what are you going to do for pre-assessment toward differentiation?
Since we will be teaching a math unit I really like the subtraction and multiplication inventories. I think that I will be able to tell a lot about my students when they complete the inventory. I think for younger grades too the smiley faces are a nice easy way to answer questions. When I administered the Garfield Motivational Survey last field to one of my students they loved it. We were able to tell a lot about his attitude towards reading and also some of his home life. It is a not confrontational way to find out if they like reading and what they like to read about etc.
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I like your idea of putting a middle column in that one survey from the book. You will need to select (or create) two different types of pre-assessments or inventories to do in your field classroom. Then, after field, you will be writing two lesson plans that utilize what you learned from the inventories, in order to differentiate two lessons that will go in your student-teaching unit.
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