Mike+Schiller

__Week 2 Links__
__**Student Interest Survey**__ []

This student interest survey would be useful for an elementary classroom. It covers what the students favorite subjects are, as well as where they would like to get better. In addition to just asking about the student in school, it covers favorite sports, hobbies, and what they like to do in their free time. I find it to be quite useful in getting to know your students and their interests. This knowledge is helpful in engaging students during class discussions or in giving examples.

__**Learning Styles Survey**__ []

This survey would be useful for a middle to high school classroom. It gives multiple choice questions that can be answered one of three ways. Each answer is framed within a learning style of verbal, auditory, or kinesthetic. Students will answer where they feel they fit in the best and in the end, answers are tallied and whichever answer the student used the most shows which learning style they show a tendency towards. This information can be useful when deciding on what students to pair together in groups, or how much you want to vary your instruction.

__**Multiple Intelligences Survey**__ []

Again, I would use this survey with a middle or high school aged classroom. This survey is an online form in which you answer questions along a spectrum of answers. The questions ask how you would do something, and the answers that are available coincide with one or more of the multiple intelligences. In the end, it is able to decide where your tendencies lie when it comes to how you best learn information. This survey would be helpful in guiding your choices on varying instruction. This would give you areas to focus on more, and where to back off when it comes to your students.

__**Learning Profile Inventory**__ []

This survey could be given to students from middle elementary on up to high school. It is very simple, asking a series of questions that can be answered along a spectrum of choices. The information covered includes things ranging from how a students prefers to work in a classroom to what the student likes to do outside of school. It appears to be a very condensed version of the prior surveys. I would use this much like the student interest survey.

Week 3 Resources
Here are some helpful resources when putting together your UDL project.

www.universaldesign.com This site is useful for all of the basic and background information on everything UDL.

www.udlcenter.org/aboutudl/udlguidelines Another useful site for UDL information. Plenty of helpful links.

http://www.greatschools.org/special-education/assistive-technology/785-universal-design-for-learning-improved-access-for-all.gs Useful site with strategies for UDL.

=**__Link to My UDL Project__**= http://udl-mikeschiller.wikispaces.com/

=__Week 5 Resources__= The Access Center [] This is a great site that had plenty of DI strategies and methods. The methods are dispersed evenly across students readiness, interests, and learning profile.

Language Study @ Suite 101 [] Another site that has some strategies for differentiated instruction.

Ashley to Mike I like the second website you found. It has some great strategies on there to use in the classroom.