DETS Teacher Web Survey

  1. I am answering these survey questions for my teaching during (check one):

Fall Semester (September 2009–December 2009)
Spring Semester (January 2010–June 2010)
Other:

  2. Teacher Name:
(optional)

  3. Grade Level:

  4. School Name:

  5. School Address:
Street Address

Background Data:

  6. Which DETS Curriculum unit/lesson resources have you taught from for the semester you checked above? (check all that apply)

Grades K-2 (Health is Life in Balance)
Grades 3-4 (Health is Life in Balance)
Grades 5-6 Social Studies (All Life is Connected: Lifestyle, Environment, and Diabetes)
Grades 7-8; Science Unit (A Balancing Act: Preventing Diabetes)
Grades 7-8; Social Studies Unit (Life in Balance)
Grades 9-12; Science Unit (Life in Balance: Understanding Homeostasis through Diabetes)
Grades 9-12; Health Unit (Diabetes and American Indian/Alaska Native Health)
Other:
Please describe any other DETS material that you have taught:

  7. How did you get involved teaching DETS lessons? (Check all that apply.)

Volunteered
Word-of-mouth
Professional Development Workshop
Mandate from principal/superintendent
Conference
Article in publication
Other:

Please describe any other ways that you have gotten involved teaching DETS lessons:

  8. If you ordered the DETS curriculum, how easy was that ordering experience?

Very Easy
Easy
Difficult
Very Difficult
Comment:

  9. What DETS-related professional development opportunities have you had? (Check all that apply.)

None
Introductory in-service on diabetes
Advanced in-service on diabetes
Teacher training on DETS curriculum
Other:
Please describe any other DETS-related professional development opportunities you’ve had:

10. Approximately how many hours of DETS-related professional development opportunities have you had?

11. About how many of your students participated in your DETS class(es) for the semester you checked above?

1 to 10
11 to 20
21 to 30
31 to 40
More than 40

12. Approximately what percentage (number only) of your DETS students were Native American?

13. Approximately how many classroom hours (number only) have you spent teaching DETS lessons?

14. In general, were the DETS lessons

Comment:

Survey Questions:

15. How age appropriate were the DETS materials for your students?

16. Please rate the level of engagement of your students while you were teaching these lessons.

17. Overall, how would you rate the content of these lessons for your students?

Please briefly explain your rating. That is, which aspects were too easy or too difficult? For example, what made a lesson "just right" (e.g., content, format, vocabulary, etc.)?

18. Overall, how would you rate student learning while you were teaching these DETS lessons?

Did not learn the material
Learned a little bit of the material
Learned some of the material
Learned most of the material

19. Overall, how would you rate the impact of the DETS curriculum on your students relating to learning about:

a. Health and community:

b. Science:

c. Careers in science:

20. How well did your students like the DETS lessons?

21. From your perspective were the lessons that you taught from the DETS curriculum adequately aligned with the National Science Standards?

Please briefly elaborate:

22. If you used the Eagle Books (i.e., Grades 3-4), please respond to a. through d. below, otherwise skip to question 23.

The Eagle Books:

a. were liked by my students.

b. supported the content of DETS lessons.

c. were generally relevant.

 Comment:

23. In general what have been the strengths of the DETS lessons that you taught for the semester you have checked above?

24. In general what areas of the DETS lessons that you taught need improvement?

25. Please take a final moment to provide us with a few more overall ratings on your experiences with the DETS curriculum for the semester you have checked above.

a.  How successful were you in implementing the DETS lessons?

b.  From a teacher's perspective how easy-to-use is the DETS curriculum?

c.  Compared to other similar curricula that you have taught, how engaging for your students was the DETS curriculum?

d.  Overall, how strong was the Native American cultural framework (e.g. Native American examples, links to Native American culture.)?

Please elaborate:

26. Please describe what kind of support or assistance you would need for the best possible implementation of the DETS curriculum.