Joel Zehring » survey http://joelzehring.edublogs.org "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." William Butler Yeats Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:10:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Casting the vision in a small way http://joelzehring.edublogs.org/2009/05/06/casting-the-vision-in-a-small-way/ http://joelzehring.edublogs.org/2009/05/06/casting-the-vision-in-a-small-way/#comments Thu, 07 May 2009 02:57:27 +0000 Joel Zehring http://joelzehring.edublogs.org/?p=184 I’m serving as a coordinator for our site student assistance program next year. My partner and I are making plans and brainstorming options for the processes that will support at-risk students on their way to mainstream interventions or special education services.
As we dream and discuss and collaborate, it strikes me that a solid, engaging mission is critical for this kind of work. We’re toying with this statement: Collaborate with teachers to individualize instruction.
To preload this goal into our work next year, I incorporated the mission statement into an online feedback survey.
The question reads "CSTs mission: Collaborate with teachers to individualize instruction. What grade would you give us in achieving this goal?"
In this screenshot of the survey, “ES” represents “Excels in the standard”, “MS” means “Meets the standard”, AS means “Approaches the standard”, “FS” means “Falls below the standard”, and “FFS” means “Falls far below the standard”.
We don’t know who will serve on the team next year. We’re inviting teachers this week to consider return/joining. I’m hoping that as they share their opinions and observation from this year, they’ll catch the mission statement and show up to school in August with a clearer idea of what we’re about.
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  1. What do you love to teach? (Be specific)
  2. What could our school do better than any of other school in the world?
  3. What could we do to make people want to give us money?

The trick is in the ask. I don’t want to simply throw it out at a staff meeting, and a Google form seems a little bland. I have this sense that packaging the questions in the right ways might really spark the imaginations of the teachers, administrators, and support personnel. The right ask might initiate dialog in addition to collecting data.

Any ideas on how I might creatively survey 50+ educators?

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