Wesley

= Wesley’s Page -  = === I am an English teacher on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. I teach tenth grade, twelfth grade, and a journalism course in which our yearbook is produced. I am married (she teaches eleventh grade English) and we have two children. Our daughter is seven and our son is four. Besides having my hands full with these two kiddos and teaching, I am also a graduate student completing a Master’s degree. I’m an electronics junkie as well as a photographer. My first undergrad degree is in film, but I have had to put any filmmaking on hold for a bit, at least until I finish this Master’s degree. ===

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// __ Differentiation Station Assignment – Week 2 __ // Learning profile - Here are two surveys I came across this week which would be good for gaining vital background information on students. While the first is geared more for the high school student and the second for the elementary student, they both are a good starting place to discover the background students come to us with, affecting how they approach school and learning as well as our content areas. [] [] Learning styles – This survey is more appropriate for students in the middle or high school grades. It helps the teacher get an idea of what types of assignments would be most appropriate to help the student. It also helps the student start to get an idea of his own learning style, defining the three learning types. [] I also found this second survey to be good. I think I might would actually create a combination of the two to best meet my needs with my classes. [] Multiple Intelligences – This survey I found is pretty good to help identify where students’ learning intelligences lie as well as their learning styles and preferences. It could be modified a bit, and I would also think it would need to be adjusted a bit to be more in line with the multiple intelligences identified by Gardner. [] Interests Survey – I found a couple of interests surveys I liked. Both of these are probably aimed at an older student and might need to be modified for the individual teacher. I see things I would like to modify on each, probably taking the best of both and creating my own. They both help gather information that reveals more demographic information that might be really helpful to understand where our students are coming from. [] [] I have already been using Surveymonkey.com to gather information about my students. I am seeing many things I would like to change to my own survey, perhaps even making multiple surveys, as I have looked through these surveys this past week and read from our resources. The following is the most recent survey I have used with my tenth-grade English students. []