This section summarizes the results of the survey of teachers at this school about their ideas and practices of parent involvement or school and family partnerships. In this school, 40 teachers were given questionnaires, and 21 teachers returned the survey for a rate of response of 52.5%.
Question 1. Teachers ' attitudes about parent involvement. Teachers were asked whether parent involvement is important for a good education, increasing teacher effectiveness, and student success. Teachers agree 100% on these issues. Moreover, teachers gave their opinions about whether they: do not have time to involve parents (100% agree), need in-service training to involve parents (23% strongly agree), involving parents is a responsibility of teachers (100% …show more content…
Who supports parent involvement and how much? It is interesting to compare teachers ' views of their own attitudes with their ideas about how others think about school and family partnerships. In this school, on average, teachers think that they (personally) support parent involvement the same as other teachers in their department while the principal supports parent involvement the same as the teachers and parents support parent involvement less than the teachers.
Question 6. What types of parent involvement school should develop or strengthen? This question provides a "profile" of where teachers think this school is starting from in its practices of partnership in major types of involvement. The items cover only a few of the possible practices that are used for each type, but the data should give some ideas about where teachers think school programs are already strong or need improvement.
The following programs need to develop in proportion of …show more content…
The survey asks teachers to give their personal views and explanations on six optional open-ended questions. Their comments may provide examples and perspectives to help explain the survey data in the questions above. Open-ended questions a, b, c. and e support Survey’s Questions 3 and 6 with ideas about needed school practices of partnership; open-ended question d supports Survey. There was a 9.52% rate of response for the open-ended question 23 and 0% rate of response open-ended questions 24 to 28. The practice to involve parents used by the teachers that answered were: connecting and inform the
Question 1. Teachers ' attitudes about parent involvement. Teachers were asked whether parent involvement is important for a good education, increasing teacher effectiveness, and student success. Teachers agree 100% on these issues. Moreover, teachers gave their opinions about whether they: do not have time to involve parents (100% agree), need in-service training to involve parents (23% strongly agree), involving parents is a responsibility of teachers (100% …show more content…
Who supports parent involvement and how much? It is interesting to compare teachers ' views of their own attitudes with their ideas about how others think about school and family partnerships. In this school, on average, teachers think that they (personally) support parent involvement the same as other teachers in their department while the principal supports parent involvement the same as the teachers and parents support parent involvement less than the teachers.
Question 6. What types of parent involvement school should develop or strengthen? This question provides a "profile" of where teachers think this school is starting from in its practices of partnership in major types of involvement. The items cover only a few of the possible practices that are used for each type, but the data should give some ideas about where teachers think school programs are already strong or need improvement.
The following programs need to develop in proportion of …show more content…
The survey asks teachers to give their personal views and explanations on six optional open-ended questions. Their comments may provide examples and perspectives to help explain the survey data in the questions above. Open-ended questions a, b, c. and e support Survey’s Questions 3 and 6 with ideas about needed school practices of partnership; open-ended question d supports Survey. There was a 9.52% rate of response for the open-ended question 23 and 0% rate of response open-ended questions 24 to 28. The practice to involve parents used by the teachers that answered were: connecting and inform the