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Literacy Survey: Elementary Schools - Calvin Christian Elementary : Survey Results

Survey Results

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The asterisk symbol * indicates a required question.

*Question 1:1. In which school building are you currently employed?
 Question 2:2. How many years have you served as a classroom teacher?
 Question 3:3. In which grade levels have you taught? (Check all that apply)
 Question 4:4. What grade level or levels do you currently teach?
 Question 5:5. Do you currently have a Literacy Coach?
 Question 6:If yes, how often do you work together?
 Question 7:6. Do you have a Reading Specialist available?
 Question 8:If yes, how often do you work together?
 Question 9:7. Do you have a Media Specialist in your building?
 Question 10:8. Which of the following best describes your current teaching assignment?
 Question 11:9. Please indicate the number of HOURS PER WEEK that you teach each of the following subjects.
Mathematics
 Question 12:English Language Arts
 Question 13:10. Which educator certifications have you held in your career? (Check all that apply)
 Question 14:11. What is your highest degree?
 Question 15:1. How often do you read a book or professional journal related to literacy?
 Question 16:If applicable, what book(s) have you read this year as part of the literacy book study?
 Question 17:2. How often do you participate in a study group related to learning literacy strategies and techniques?
 Question 18:3. How often do you participate in a grade level meeting related to literacy?
 Question 19:4. How often do you participate in faculty meetings related to literacy?
 Question 20:5. How often do you model a literacy lesson or observe another teacher's literacy lesson?
 Question 21:6. How often do you use technology to gain information about literacy teaching or to share literacy teaching with your colleagues?
 Question 22:If applicable, what kind of technology do you use? (e.g. search engines, websites, blogs, Moodle, etc...)
 Question 23:7. How often do you share with colleagues ideas and information you have learned from attending a literacy related workshop(s)?
 Question 24:8. How often do you have conversations with colleagues about literacy instructional LANGUAGE?
 Question 25:9. How often do you have converstions with colleagues about literacy TEACHING STRATEGIES?
 Question 26:10. How often do you have conversations with colleagues about literacy ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES?
 Question 27:11. How often do you have conversations with colleagues about literacy DATA ANALYSIS?
 Question 28:12. How often do you have conversations with colleagues about literacy ACROSS GRADE LEVELS?
 Question 29:13. How often do you have conversations with colleagues about literacy ACROSS CONTENT AREAS?
 Question 30:14. In addition to the liberacy related activities described in the 1-13, are there other opportunities for you to talk about you literacy practices, beliefs, and goals? Please describe these opportunities, how often, and with whom they occur.
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 Question 32:3.
 Question 33:4.
 Question 34:15. What literacy topics might you be interested in learning more about?
 Question 35:1. How often do you have opportunities to integrate new thinking about literacy learning into your classroom instruction?
 Question 36:2. How often do you have your students collaborate in their literacy learning?
 Question 37:Please provide a brief example of student collaboration in your classroom.
 Question 38:3. How often do you differentiate literacy strategies based on student need?
 Question 39:4. How often do you use assessment results to guide literacy-related instructional decisions and practices?
 Question 40:5. How often do you have your students use reading rubrics to guide their performance?
 Question 41:6. How often do you have your students use writing rubrics to guide their performance?
 Question 42:7. Do you have a working knowledge of "the gradual release of responsibility for learning" instructional model?
 Question 43:8. How often do you use the "gradual release of responsibility for learning" instructional model with students?
 Question 44:9. Do you teach Language Arts?
 Question 45:10. How often in the teaching of LANGUAGE ARTS do you use the following instructional strategies? (If you do not teach Language Art skip this question and go to question 11.)
Literature circles
 Question 46:Vocabulary building
 Question 47:Notetaking
 Question 48:Read alouds
 Question 49:Think alouds
 Question 50:Silent Sustained Reading
 Question 51:Use of differentiated text
 Question 52:Writing
 Question 53:Graphic organizers
 Question 54:Summarizing
 Question 55:Questioning
 Question 56:Use of a variety of Reading and Writing Genres
 Question 57:Providing feedback and recognition
 Question 58:Six Traits of Writing (ideas, organization, word choice, vice, sentence fluency, conventions)
 Question 59:Using mentor model text
 Question 60:Word Walls
 Question 61:Parental involvement
 Question 62:If applicable, please provide an example of how you involve parents in language arts instruction
 Question 63:11. Do you teach Mathematics?
 Question 64:12. How often in the teaching of MATHEMATICES do you use the following instructional strategies? (If you do not teach Mathematics skip this question and go to question 14.)
 Question 65:Vocabulary building
 Question 66:Notetaking
 Question 67:Read alouds
 Question 68:Think alouds
 Question 69:Silent Sustained Reading
 Question 70:Use of differentiated text
 Question 71:Use of differentiated text
 Question 72:Writing
 Question 73:Graphic organizers
 Question 74:Summarizing
 Question 75:Questioning
 Question 76:Use of a variety of Reading and Writing Genres
 Question 77:Providing feedback and recognition
 Question 78:Six Traits of Writing (ideas, organization, word chice, vice, sentence fluency, conventions)
 Question 79:Using mentor model text
 Question 80:Word Walls
 Question 81:Parental involvement
 Question 82:If applicable, please provide an example of how you involve parents in mathematics instruction
 Question 83:13. If you DO NOT teach Language Arts or Mathematic, which of the following subject areas is your primary teaching focus? (If you teach Language Arts or Mathematics go t question 14.)
 Question 84:14. How often in the teaching of your Primary Subject Area other than Language Arts or Mathematics do you use the following instructional strategies?
Literature circles
 Question 85:Vocabulary building
 Question 86:Notetaking
 Question 87:Read alouds
 Question 88:Think alouds
 Question 89:Silent Sustained Reading
 Question 90:Use of differentiated text
 Question 91:Writing
 Question 92:Graphic organizers
 Question 93:Summarizing
 Question 94:Questioning
 Question 95:Use of a variety of Reading and Writing Genres
 Question 96:Providing feedback and recognition
 Question 97:Six Traits of Writing (ideas, organization, word choice, vice, sentence fluency, conventions)
 Question 98:Using mentor model text
 Question 99:Word Walls
 Question 100:Parental involvement
 Question 101:If applicable, please provide an example of how you involve parents in mathematics instruction
 Question 102:15. What instructional strategies might you be interested in Learning more about?
Please list here
 Question 103:16. Is there anything you would like us to know about your literacy-related practices that have not been addressed in this survey?
Please comment here