Strengths and weaknesses

I found this topic to be somewhat subjective and I had a hard time creating a tool. This is a brief questionnaire I created to get to know the students and get an idea what they care about and how they apply themselves to daily life.

Directions:
To gain a better understanding of who you are here are a few quick and easy questions for you to express who you are and what you are into. This in no way effects your grade, just answer as honestly and clearly as you can.
Place a check in the appropriate box after each statement and fill in the questions at the end of the statement as they apply to you.






This seems like a good tool to get to know their culture, what they feel they are strong doing, and then incorporate aspects of that into the class. Also if there are things they feel less comfortable being involved in or doing then utilize that in lesson planning to challenge them.

I also found a personality test that calculates personality types formulated according to Carl Jung and Isabel Myers-Briggs typology. This could be useful to observe where the students view their strengths & weaknesses. It a free test, though a bit long, so if your going to use this give them some time to get through it.

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp