Dear Parent/Guardian,
Greetings from Dixie Heights High School! I am Mrs. Jennifer Henry and it gives me great pleasure to introduce myself to you as your son’s/daughter’s English teacherfor this school year. As you will notice, I have a different method of teaching than what you may have encountered with previous teachers in the past.
Your child is a unique individual with varying likes, dislikes, strengths, weaknesses, and learning styles. I believe that it is essential to the success of your son/daughter for me to learn this vital information about your child, and to then assess him/her based on these distinctions. The accompanying tasks and questionnaire are ways for me to learn more about you and your child. I encourage you to collaborate with your son/daughter and work as partners on this assignment—perhaps you might learn more about your child, as well as yourself, in the process. Thank you for your time and cooperation; I look forward to working with you and forming a partnership in the future.
Sincerely,
Jennifer Henry
859.341.7650 x7018
For Students To Do:
1. Please visit the following website: http://www.planetpsych.com/zInteractive/brain.htm
2. Download the “BrainWorks Quiz” (Note: this will take approximately 2-5 minutes.)
3. Follow the directions as specified on the website. Be sure not to analyze the questions too much; there are no incorrect answers.
4. Print out a copy of your “Personal Evaluation”.
5. With a colored pen or pencil, identify on the brain chart below where the red dot appears with the results of your answers to the quiz.
For the Parents To Do:
1. If you are interested, complete the quiz yourself. It might be fascinating to discover if your learning styles are similar to that of your child’s. Knowing this information might help you be able to understand his/her strengths and weaknesses better.
2. Discuss your child’s (and your, if applicable) “Personal Evaluation(s)”. “What does this information tell you?”and “Does it make sense in terms of the patterns you have noticed in your child’s education or interaction/study habits at home?”, etc.
3. Go back over the questions and evaluate your child’s answers with him/her.
4. Please collaborate with your child and answer the following questionnaire.
5. If you would like to learn more about the importance of teaching with the learning styles in mind, find out resources that would help your child excel in school, or take another inventory quiz to compare results to the previous one taken, please go to this website: http://www.howtolearn.com/lsinventory_student.html
Student Questionnaire
Please answer these questions to the best of your ability. The more you write about yourself, the more I gain gain from this assignment. This is your first grade for my class.
1. What is your favorite subject in school? Why? Is this recent or has this always been the case?
2. Think of your most favorite teacher ever. What did you like best about this teacher and how he/she taught?
3. Briefly explain one of your study skills techniques which seems to have worked for you in the past.
4. In groups, I prefer to be the: recorder/secretary, leader, presenter to the class, fact finder (locate information), quiet observer. (circle one)
Please finish the following statements in a way that accurately reflects your line of thinking.
My biggest apprehension about taking a test is:
The worst time of day for me to concentrate is ______, because:
(teacher responsibility) To help make me interested in reading a certain book, the teacher has to:
(student responsibility) To become interested in a book I have to:
I usually feel most comforable asking my teacher a question when:
If I am in a class with noisy people I tend to:
If I had a week off of school and work, I like to spend my free time doing:
If I have to choose a weakness of mine that I know holds me back sometimes as a student, it would be:
I am very good at:
My hobbies/interests include: