Parent Survey - Freshman Team

8/14/2019 Parent Survey - Freshman Team

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As a team we send out periodic emails to inform parents about current assignments and activities in our class

access these check-ins?

I read the emails regularly

I occasionally read the emails

I have not had an opportunity/need to read the e

Do these emails provide you with useful information?

Yes 8 100%

No 0 0%

Please comment on the question above

I appreciate you updates and it gives me a springboard to have conversations with my daughter about her

classes. The e-mails provides ideas on how to talk with Daniel about his assignments and supply detail that may not

otherwise be shared. I love getting the emails; it provides us with more information than what we get from our

son. Keep them coming! I appreciate the emails as they keep me informed and up to date. As a parent, my

husband and I welcome receiving your emails so that we know what is happening in each of Graeme's classes and are

then able to talk about with him about each class. ...

Of the 8 responses, all read the emailsregularly and find them useful. We

should continue to do what we havebeen doing.

I have added comments to this summary of responsesfor our ninth grade team parent survey. We collectedresponses over two weeks at the end of January and

start of February. Only 8 parents contacted respondedto the survey.


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Another way we provide access to our assignments is through our wikis or webpages. How often have

you accessed these resources?

Regularly 2 25%

Only if my child has been absent 0 0%

Only once or twice 2 25%

Never 4 50%

Another purpose of our team is to aid in the transition to high school for students. From your perspective, how

Extremely smoothly for my child

Smoothly after the initial start for my child

There have been some minor challenges in the tr

The transition has provided some significant chall

How do you find the provided support from the team for the academic transitions and/or extra help outside

of class time?

Extremely available 5 63%

Adequate 2 25%

Difficult to access 0 0%

I do not have information about this 1 13%

Are you concerned about any aspect of your childs high school experience? (academic, social,

Interesting. We spend a good dealof time on these sites. I think theyare more useful for students thanparents, and this seems to showthat is the case.

For our 8 respondents, thetransition to high school has gonesmoothly. With a small sample sizethis is not particularly informative.

These are positive numbers.


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emotional?)

Yes 0 0%

No 8 100%

Please comment on the question above.

I wish the school did something for Freshman parents to discuss the upcoming 3 years in terms of college prep, best

classes to take, what colleges look for, etc, etc. We have not used the wikis or webpages very much because our son

is on top of his assignments. I know he uses them all of the time and if we need to, it is nice to know they are there. It is

especially helpful when he has been out sick a couple of times. Everything seems great! I will make a point to checkthe wikis and webpages. Our daughter is very independent with her school work so I haven't felt the need to check.

How ...

Individually, we would appreciate any specific comments to the questions above or other topics you feel we

should know. Please comment below each teacher's name. These comments will be separated for each teacher.

David Farrington Comments:

Current events segment of the course is great and has contributed a lot to dinner conversation! Overall a very

stimulating class. Many thanks. He loves your class! Keep up the good work.

Julie Hutchinson Comments:

Good work dealing with varying levels of math backgrounds. I imagine this is a challenge. However, looking forward to

fture years, I am not sure that opening 9th grade honors math to those students who did not pursue honors math in

middle school is best. Well structured class where he is learning a great deal.

Mandy Peaslee Comments:

Great variety of reading assignments. I'll have to read Mosquito Coast myself to follow the upcoming discussions re:

cultural comparisons to Ancient Rome. Sounds very interesting. He very much enjoys your class and the

subject. Hello! We were all talking about your comment when grades came out. Graeme admitted that he could do

better. Could you briefly explain what an in-class assessment is and how he could improve his work? He mentioned that

he could definitely put more effort into his re-writes with some projects. Thank you! "He should continue to work on

preparing for in-class ...

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Catie Wooten Comments:

The honors projects seem to be going well. I was not sure how this would work initially, but it seems pretty seamless.

Thanks for your extra efforts to make this work. He likes your class, though was not enamored by geology. He thought

it went on too long and likes the electricity and waves units much better.

Number of daily responses

These are all the comments I got this

year. I feel positive about them,especially the honors challengecomments. The geology content waslonger this year. Perhaps thatdeserves another look.

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