SSE Teacher Survey - RURE Longitudinal Study 100% of survey complete. Question Title * 1. This survey asks about your experience as part of the Alaska Humanities Forum's Sister School Exchange Program where teachers take students from urban schools travel to rural "sister" schools and rural students to travel to urban "sister" schools. The purpose of this study is to better understand long-term impacts of the program on teachers and students. Your participation is voluntary in nature, meaning if you choose not to participate that is fine. Please note that if you do choose to participate, all of your information will be kept confidential meaning no names will be shared with any persons except the survey administrators and no comments will be linked to any single person when they are reported. All respondents will have the opportunity to enter into a drawing for an iPad at the end of the survey. One iPad winner will be randomly selected from all participants who complete the survey. If you are willing to participate in this survey you will be routed to additional questions. The survey should take 10 minutes to complete. If you do not wish to participate, simply indicate so, and you will exit the survey.Do you wish to participate in this survey? Yes No Question Title * 2. In what year(s) did you participate in the Rose Urban Rural Sister School Exchange? Please add a check mark next to all years you participated. 2000-2001 2001-2002 2002-2003 2003-2004 2004-2005 2005-2006 2006-2007 2007-2008 2009-2010 Question Title * 3. What school were you teaching in at the time of participation? If you were a Sister School Exchange teacher at more than one school, please list all schools separated by a comma. Question Title * 4. What grade(s) did you teach when you participated in the Sister School Exchange? 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Question Title * 5. Did students participate as part of a class, club, or other group? Class Club Other group Question Title * 6. To what city or village did you travel? Question Title * 7. Where did you stay in your sister school community during your exchange visit? With a host family In the school In teacher housing Question Title * 8. How did your housing accomodations contribute to your exchange experience? Question Title * 9. Did you personally host a sister school student or teacher? Yes No Question Title * 10. If you did host a student or teacher, how did the opportunity contribute to your exchange experience? Question Title * 11. What did you learn from your trip about other cultures? Question Title * 12. What do you think your students learned from their trip? Question Title * 13. When you think about the educational experiences available to students, how meaningful do you believe the Sister School Exchange was for your students? 1 = Not very meaningful 2 = Somewhat meaningful 3 = Very meaningful 4 = One of the most meaningful experiences students had Question Title * 14. What were the main long-term benefits of this experience for you, personally and professionally? Question Title * 15. How did this trip impact you as a teacher? / your teaching? Question Title * 16. Would you recommend other teachers lead such an exchange? Yes No Question Title * 17. Please explain your answer to the above question. Question Title * 18. On a continuum of cultural competence, where would you place yourself before you participated in the Sister School Exchange? Cultural destructiveness: Destructive attitudes, policies, and practices toward other cultures Cultural incapacity: Belief in the superiority of one's own culture and behavior that disempowers another's culture (subtle unwelcoming messages, lower expectations for another person, belief in disproportionality of resources, etc.) Cultural blindness: Acting as if the cultural differences one sees do not matter or not recognizing that there are differences among and between cultures Cultural precompetence: Awareness of the limitations one's skills or an organization's practices when interacting with other cultural groups Cultural competence: Interacting with other cultural groups using the five essential elements of cultural proficiency as the standard for individual behavior and school practices: acceptance and respect for difference; ongoing assessment of one's own and the organization's culture; attention to the dynamics of difference; continuous expansion of cultural knowledge and recourses; and the adaptation of one's values and behaviors and the organization's policies and practices Cultural proficiency: Esteeming culture; knowing how to learn about individual and organization culture; interacting effectively in a variety of cultural environments Question Title * 19. On a continuum of cultural competence, where would you place yourself after you participated in the Sister School Exchange? Cultural destructiveness: Destructive attitudes, policies, and practices toward other cultures Cultural incapacity: Belief in the superiority of one's own culture and behavior that disempowers another's culture (subtle unwelcoming messages, lower expectations for another person, belief in disproportionality of resources, etc.) Cultural blindness: Acting as if the cultural differences one sees do not matter or not recognizing that there are differences among and between cultures Cultural precompetence: Awareness of the limitations one's skills or an organization's practices when interacting with other cultural groups Cultural competence: Interacting with other cultural groups using the five essential elements of cultural proficiency as the standard for individual behavior and school practices: acceptance and respect for difference; ongoing assessment of one's own and the organization's culture; attention to the dynamics of difference; continuous expansion of cultural knowledge and recourses; and the adaptation of one's values and behaviors and the organization's policies and practices Cultural proficiency: Esteeming culture; knowing how to learn about individual and organization culture; interacting effectively in a variety of cultural environments Question Title * 20. What makes for a good Sister School Exchange student participant? Question Title * 21. What makes for a good Sister School Exchange trip/visit? Question Title * 22. Please indicate your name (this will not be shared with anyone except the project evaluators). Question Title * 23. Please indicate your age. Question Title * 24. Please indicate your race. White / Caucasian Black / African-American Multi-racial Alaska Native Asian Other (please specify) Question Title * 25. What is your highest education level? Earned a Bachelor's (4-year) Degree Earned a Master's Degree Earned a Ph. D. or Ed. D. Other (please specify) Question Title * 26. Please indicate your current work/education status. Working full-time Working part-time In school full-time In school part-time Other (please specify) Question Title * 27. We plan to contact some survey respondents for a short interview. If you are willing to be contacted, please provide the best phone number where we can reach you, including area code and your preferred time of day for a call. Question Title * 28. If you are interested in entering into the drawing for the iPad as our thank you gift for participating, please include your email address here: Done