29 CRB / FEH / Questar III DL Teacher Survey Responses Were Received

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29 CRB / FEH / Questar III DL Teacher Survey
Responses Were Received
Numbers of first time and veteran DL Teacher
Survey Responses
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Section A
Technical
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Technical
1. I was able to clearly see all of my students
at remote site(s).
Uncertain
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Technical
2. I was able to clearly hear students and
teacher aides at remote site(s).
Uncertain
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Technical
3. Students at remote sites were able to hear me.
Uncertain
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Technical
3. Students at remote sites were able to hear me.
Agree / Strongly Agree
Disagree / Strongly Disagree
Uncertain
Student responseFrom remote site perspective
11 12 77
Re Hearing teachers, aides and students.
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Technical
4. The materials displayed over the network were
clearly seen by students.
Agree / Strongly Agree
Disagree / Strongly Disagree
Uncertain
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Technical
5. I felt comfortable using room equipment.
Agree / Strongly Agree
Disagree / Strongly Disagree
Uncertain
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Technical
6. The room design was adequate for my teaching
purposes.
Agree / Strongly Agree
Disagree / Strongly Disagree
Uncertain
11
Technical
7. I was satisfied with the technical support I
received in dealing with network difficulties.
Agree / Strongly Agree
Disagree / Strongly Disagree
Uncertain
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Technical
8. Technically, the distance learning system
performed well this year.
Agree / Strongly Agree
Disagree / Strongly Disagree
Uncertain
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Section A
LearningEnvironment
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Environment
1. I could interact with individual students as
often as I wanted.
Agree / Strongly Agree
Disagree / Strongly Disagree
Uncertain
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Environment
2. My interaction and rapport with students at
remote sites was comparable to students at my
home site.
Agree / Strongly Agree
Disagree / Strongly Disagree
Uncertain
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Environment
3. The distance learning system provides an
effective way to teach classes.
Agree / Strongly Agree
Disagree / Strongly Disagree
Uncertain
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Section A
OverallProgram
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Overall
1. The system for transferring assignments
between sites was adequate.
Teacher Response
Agree / Strongly Agree
Disagree / Strongly Disagree
Uncertain
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Overall
1. The system for transferring assignments
between sites was adequate.
Agree / Strongly Agree
Disagree / Strongly Disagree
Teacher Response
Uncertain
Student responsefrom remote site perspective
11 5 84
From CRB/FEH/Q3 DL student survey.
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Overall
2. We had little trouble making up missed classes
when necessary.
Teacher Response
Agree / Strongly Agree
Disagree / Strongly Disagree
Uncertain
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Overall
2. We had little trouble making up missed classes
when necessary.
Agree / Strongly Agree
Disagree / Strongly Disagree
Teacher Response
Uncertain
N/A
Student responsefrom remote site perspective
6 10 8 76
From CRB/FEH/Q3 DL student survey.
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Overall
3. The overall coordination of the project was
effective.
Agree / Strongly Agree
Disagree / Strongly Disagree
Uncertain
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Overall
4. I would teach another course on the distance
learning network.
Agree / Strongly Agree
Disagree / Strongly Disagree
Uncertain
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Overall
5. I would recommend taking courses on the
distance learning network to students at my
school.
Agree / Strongly Agree
Disagree / Strongly Disagree
Uncertain
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Overall
6. I would recommend teaching courses on the
network to colleagues.
Agree / Strongly Agree
Disagree / Strongly Disagree
Uncertain
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Overall
7. Overall, I am satisfied with the
experience I have hadteaching via DL this year.
Agree / Strongly Agree
Disagree / Strongly Disagree
Uncertain
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Overall
First Year Instructors Who Responded 1. The
training I received prior to teaching on the
distance learning system prepared me well for
teaching in the DL environment.
Agree / Strongly Agree
Disagree / Strongly Disagree
Uncertain
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Overall
First Year Instructors Who Responded 2.
Teaching via distance learning has lived up to my
expectations.
Agree / Strongly Agree
Agree / Strongly Agree
Disagree / Strongly Disagree
Uncertain
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Section B
TeacherComments
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Comments
1. What are the strengths of distance Learning?
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It is always a pleasure that I get to work with
very bright kids in other schools and give them
the opportunity to learn psychology. I enjoy
working with students at other schools who are
interested in the content who I could not
otherwise get to work with. Most of my
instructions involved textbooks and
computer-created documents-both which can be
viewed with clarity through the computer and
Elmo. It allows students increased opportunities
to take courses that would otherwise not be
offered and allows for interaction with people
not in their current social setting. It prepares
students for an environment they will see in
college with exposure to other teachers and
classes. I have been teaching this class for 15
years and love everything about DLThe
incorporation of other schools is fascinating,
student interaction between schools creates many
good relationships.
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2. What are the weaknesses of Distance Learning?
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Some DL classes starting in distant schools 5-10
minutes later. Sound issues with new hanging
microphones. They pick up all noises in the room
which is a problem. Dated equipment resulted in
frustrating technical difficulties.Classroom
management is dependent on TA enforcement of
students, our DL room is located directly next to
an extremely loud middle school cafeteria which
at times makes it very hard to hear the students,
also other sites have a hard time hearing us.It
is challenging to engage in hands on interactive
lessons with other schools.The equipment
differences in each site and the scheduling
issues between one or more sites causes a loss of
teaching time.More so this year than ever, I
had trouble becoming familiar with my students at
the remote sites. There were simply too many
students.
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3. What changes would you suggest for distance
learning classes?
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Better quality teaching assistants at sites
receiving. They must make sure the kids are on
task, doing each assignment on time, not cheating
on quizzes or tests, not texting or doing other
class work during my class. I would suggest that
the participating districts support teachers
visits to remote sites even though this may
require a substitute for the day.Filter out the
unmotivated students. Students should expect to
do work outside the classroom, especially if they
did not use their time wisely during the class
time afforded them. Overall I enjoy the format,
but if I can be specific, the noise from the
cafeteria at Catskill was sometimes
distracting.Start and end times need to be
similar.I was under the impression that there
is a maximum number of students at a site unless
the instructor approves more. I am concerned
about class size.
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4. Are there any outcomes from teaching this
course that you had not expected?
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I learned more about technology, the ELMO and
using email with students. I also learned about
myself and organization strategies.How close we
can become (meaning teacher and students) even
though there is a great distance between us. -
The camaraderie that develops. I had a serious
problem with all phone use and interferences.Stu
dents dont always take the class seriously and
become lazy about work (especially when there are
technical problems or DL proctors havent made
class copies of the work I send, always in plenty
of time to get it done.)We all met for a field
trip at an Albany theatre and that was so
exciting and rewarding. Low ability students
taking a higher level course. It makes it hard on
those capable of doing the work. I cannot assign
the work I had planned to cover due to the
heterogeneous grouping.Since we had a student
from Haiti, I found I am interested in finding
out more about the country.
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5. Did you use any new instructional methods to
effectively teach in the DL classroom?
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The Elmo and all the technology was
delightful.We tried Google docs for preparing
and emailing projects (sometimes Power Point
documents are too large) and I hope to use Voice
Threads for speaking assessments next year. Ive
tried to adopt some vocabulary and grammar games,
using the Elmo.I tried video taping my class
and viewing them through the computer. I want to
do more streaming of computer based projects so
having a quicker computer with upgraded Power
Point and Word would help.The use of the
internet was easier in DL since I dont have a
Smartboard or projector in my regular
classroom.I used email for submission of java
labs since the computers in the room do not have
printers.I used the Elmo instead of a board and
this was great so that I could also write right
on the same worksheets they were seeing.Still
using blackboard and finding it very effective.
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6. Did you use any other forms of communication
with the students in addition to daily
distance learning classroom instruction (such as
e-mail or telephone)?
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Students are encouraged to email me with
questions or concerns and send assignments by
email (they usually dont!) Ive talked to
students by phone occasionally. Ive used the
telephone for oral exams and sent pictures via
email to the TA. I consistently used email to
get assignments from students. I used my Quia
site daily to update assignments. Email, Google
wave, notes on wiki. Blackboard is very
effective .I use email all the time and the
phone sometimes.I use email to communicate with
parents.
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7A. Did you visit your remote sites or arrange
for them to visit you?
There were 20 responses to this question.
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7B. What were the advantages / disadvantages to
visiting your remote school(s)?
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I organized a psychology day with my teaching
assistant and that provides students with some
face time which helps with latter class
discussions.Our school budget did not allow.
Perhaps Questar can help make this happen next
year? Picnics? Meeting at SUNY Albany for event?
No but I did go to Duanseburg to see their
school play and we all meet at the Captial
Repertory theatre. I visited once. It was good
to meet the students. Unfortunately we were
having computer problems, so we went to the lab
and the students spent more time working on the
computers than "bonding" with me. I travel to
teach in other schools in my district daily.
However I think its important to make that
personal connection so I will make every effort
to do so next year. I love visiting them and
they love seeing me in person. I went to Scotia
Glenville at least every month, sometimes every
week. I went to Mayfield twice or three times,
but its harder due to distance and coverage of
other classes at my home school.