Education Resource User Survey 2017

We are in the process of redesigning our website, and would love your feedback on our For Educators section! Your opinions are very valuable to us, and we appreciate you taking the time to share them.

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* 1. How often do you visit the Cary Institute For Educators section?

Once a week

Once a month

A few times a year

Less than once a year

I have never visited the Cary Institute For Educators section

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* 2. Please select all the reasons that you have visited the Cary For Educators section in the past:

To access teaching materials (lesson plans, datasets, readings, etc.)

To find information on scheduling a school program or field trip with the Cary Institute

To find information on the Hudson Data Jam

To find professional development opportunities

To stay up to date with the activities of the Cary Institute Education team

Other (please specify)

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* 3. What is the most common reason that you visit the Cary For Educators section?

To access teaching materials

To find information on scheduling a school program or field trip with the Cary Institute

To find information on the Hudson Data Jam

To find professional development opportunities

To stay up to date with the activities of the Cary Institute Education team

Other (please specify)

Teaching Materials
(skip this section if you do not use this resource)

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* 4. Please select the reasons you use our Teaching Materials Database (http://www.caryinstitute.org/educators/teaching-materials):

To download a lesson or unit plan on a specific topic in ecology (i.e. biodiversity, salt pollution)

To download a lesson or unit plan about the local ecosystem (i.e. the Hudson River)

To find lessons that are aligned with state and national teaching standards

To help guide you in planning what topics to cover in your classroom

To find inspiration for creating your own lessons

To download a specific resource that is not a lesson plan, such as a dataset, reading, or visual

Other (please specify)

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* 5. What is your preferred method for finding resources? By the topics listed in the menu (Hudson River Ecology, Urban Ecosystems, etc.), by using keywords in the search box, or by filtering your results by resource type, grade, theme, etc.

Other (please specify)

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* 6. Are there any other fields you would find useful to filter by (e.g. education standards)?

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* 7. Do you have any suggestions of how we could improve our Teaching Materials Database?

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* 8. Please describe the usefulness of the following parts of the Cary For Educators section:

	Not very useful	Somewhat useful	Highly useful
Main Education Page	Main Education Page Not very useful	Main Education Page Somewhat useful	Main Education Page Highly useful
Teaching Materials Page	Teaching Materials Page Not very useful	Teaching Materials Page Somewhat useful	Teaching Materials Page Highly useful
Field Trips and School Programs Page	Field Trips and School Programs Page Not very useful	Field Trips and School Programs Page Somewhat useful	Field Trips and School Programs Page Highly useful
Professional Development Page	Professional Development Page Not very useful	Professional Development Page Somewhat useful	Professional Development Page Highly useful
Innovative Education Projects Page	Innovative Education Projects Page Not very useful	Innovative Education Projects Page Somewhat useful	Innovative Education Projects Page Highly useful
Education Research Page	Education Research Page Not very useful	Education Research Page Somewhat useful	Education Research Page Highly useful

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* 9. Please tell us a little about yourself

I am a New York public school teacher

I am private/specialty school teacher in New York

I am an informal educator in New York

I am a teacher/educator in another state (please list below)

Other (please describe below)

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* 10. If you are a teacher or educator, what grades do you teach most?

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* 11. Please tell us a bit more about your classroom and school. What is your school like? What are your students like?

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* 12. Would you be willing to answer some follow-up questions or to be part of a testing group related to redesigning our website? If so, please provide an email address where we can contact you in the box below.

Thank you for completing this survey! It will help us design a more useful website for you.