First off, thank you so much for your time and input on this survey on our first day of school. Rest assured, if you fill out the survey on line, I will include your data and adjust the results as needed.
Without further ado….the results!
A total of 56 parents filled out our survey. Approximately, 70% of you shared that you had NO barriers to using technology in the home. Out of that percentage, 63% are visiting the website and (out of that), 14% are coming here. One of the reasons for this question was to discover possible difficulties connecting to or using our Green Street School website. In addition, I was curious to see who out there in Green Street land knew about or visited this very blog. ONE OF THE LONG TERM GOALS OF THIS BLOG IS TO USE IT TO MAKE MORE TRANSPARENT HOW AND WHAT WE ARE TEACHING STUDENTS, SPECIFICALLY IN THE AREA OF MATHEMATICS. Since, I now know most people can access the site, it makes sense to continue with communicating this message. But how, parents? Please comment and add your ideas.
You can click on a graph and it will enlarge (which it appears you will have to do in order to view it clearly (sorry). I’m still working out all these graphic “bugs”
A Bar Graph Detailing Barriers to Using Technology in the Home
HOW MANY ARE VIEWING OUR WEBSITE AND THIS BLOG
NEXT…
What, as parents, are your concerns for your child in math education? Hands down, motivation, confidence, and math fact fluency rated as number one concerns. It is true that if you are NOT confident it could effect your motivation in an academic area, which could then effect one’s perseverance in learning their math facts. However, a student could be motivated to learn math and still not be confident, which also influences a learner’s belief and ability that they can learn a skill they perceive to be challenging. The bottom line? Motivation, confidence, and learning are all connected and rely on one another in the classroom (and life!)
and just because it was fun, I made a pie graph, too (it has the same info as the graph above)
Lastly,
I asked you to rate your satisfaction with our math school curriculum.
Your average score was a 6.4.
Not so bad, BUT, not so great, either.
I am looking for your input, ideas, praise, concerns, comments, and questions. Please comment or find me in the Learning Center for a chat!
Next steps? I believe, since fact fluency surfaced as a strong concern we should highlight what we are doing (or not) to build this very important skill in our students.
Stay tuned.
Way to go! Pinpoint the issues (with your neat graphs) and work on the solution. Humm, sounds like a math problem. lol