Assignment Content
Incorporating students’ interests into the learning process fosters engagement, motivation, and relevance. By eliciting ideas and insights about student interests, educators can discover topics, themes, or activities that resonate with their students. This information allows teachers to utilize instructional approaches that leverage students’ passions and create a more meaningful and engaging learning experience. For this assignment, you will design surveys to gather information from both students and parents/caregivers.
To prepare for this assignment, do the following:
Select a grade level and, if appropriate, a subject area. (Middles school and high school grades are typically content-specific.)
Select a tool from the list below to use for at least one of the surveys. Please request approval from your faculty member to use a tool not listed here.
Microsoft Forms
Google Forms
SurveyMonkey
Brainstorm questions for 2 surveys (one for students, and one for parents/caregivers) that elicit ideas from each audience pertaining to:
Student learning style preferences
Student study habits and home support
Student interests that could be used to make learning more engaging and relevant
Ways parents/caregivers could be involved in your classroom
Design 2 interest surveys (one for students, and one for parents/caregivers) to be distributed at the beginning of a school year that meet the following criteria:
Each survey is a minimum of 5 questions and a maximum of 10questions.
At least 1 survey is technology-based (i.e., created and completed using technology).
The format and style of the survey is appropriate to the grade level.
Each survey has an introduction that provides:
An explanation of the importance and purpose of the survey
Clear and appropriate instructions to match the survey audience
Submit the following for your assignment:
Link to the technology-based survey(s)
Copy of any non-technology based surveys
