Teaching for Transformation SCICS 4-12 Student Survey

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* 1. Please indicate what school you attend

Central Iowa Christian School

Newton Christian School

Oskaloosa Christian School

Pella Christian Grade School

Pella Christian High School

Peoria Christian School

Sully Christian School

Timothy Christian School

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* 2. Please indicate your grade level:

4th Grade

5th Grade

6th Grade

7th Grade

8th Grade

9th Grade

10th Grade

11th Grade

12th Grade

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* 3. Which answer best describes your teacher’s deep hope?

I don’t know what my teacher’s deep hope is.

My teacher’s deep hope is on the wall, but we don’t talk about it.

We’ve talked about deep hope a couple of times.

We often connect our deep hope to our learning

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* 4. How important is your teacher’s deep hope?

I don’t think my teacher’s deep hope is important to my teacher or me.

I think my teacher’s deep hope is important to my teacher, but not to me.

I think my teacher’s deep hope is important to my teacher and me.

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* 5. Which answer best describes your classroom storyline?

I do not know what a storyline is.

We have a storyline on our walls, but we don't talk about it.

We talk about our storyline as it relates to our relationships and our behaviors.

We connect our storyline to our learning.

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* 6. How important is your classroom storyline?

I don't think the classroom storyline is important to my teacher or me.

I think the classroom storyline is important to my teacher, but not to me.

I think the classroom storyline is important to my teacher and me.

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* 7. Which statement best describes your learning in terms of connecting your learning to God's story?

Most often we do not connect our learning to God's story.

Every so often, my teacher tells me how this learning is connected to God's story.

My teacher asks me to connect my learning to God's story.

My teacher creates opportunities for me to connect my learning to God's story and creates the opportunity for me to play my part in God's story.

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* 8. Regarding through-lines:

The through-lines are hanging in the room, but we don't talk about them.

The through-lines are hanging in the room and we talk about them sometimes.

As a class we talk about and connect through-lines to our learning in social studies, science, language arts, etc.

Not only do we talk about the through-lines, we actually get regular opportunities to practice them.

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* 9. How important are through-lines?

I don't think the through-lines are important to my teacher or me.

I think the through-lines are important to my teacher, but not to me.

I think the through-lines are important to my teacher and me.

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* 10. Have you shared your learning with people from outside your class?

We have not done that.

Maybe once or twice.

We do this often. This feels like our 'normal' way of learning.

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* 11. How often do you learn from people (experts) outside your classroom/school?

We have not done that.

Maybe once or twice.

We do this often. This feels like our 'normal' way of learning.

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* 12. How often have you been involved in learning this year that was important to people beyond your classroom? Perhaps, your learning has met the needs of others?

We have not done that.

Maybe once or twice.

We do this often. This feels like our 'normal' way of learning.

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* 13. Which statement best describes the nature of your learning activities?

Most of my experience at school is classroom-based - we read, discuss, teacher instructs, do assignments, hand in our work to the teacher.

We occasionally do "service-projects" as a class or school - they are good things to do, but are not specifically related to the things we are studying.

We are regularly involved in work that connects to real people, meets a real need - and it is connected to our learning.

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* 14. Which statement best describes how often you, as the learner, are invited to provide 'voice' into the classroom learning?

I can not think of a time in which I was invited to give input into our learning activities.

I have been able to give input into my learning activities once or twice this year.

I am able to give input into my learning activities frequently.

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* 15. With regard to the nature of the questions that I have answered so far:

None of my teachers seem to be doing the things mentioned in the survey.

A few of my teachers are doing these things, but it is not a big part of what we do. They mention it once in a while.

Most of the teachers are talking about these things. I can see a difference in the last couple of years.

These things, talked about in the survey, have really changed my school. Not only are the teachers all talking about it, they are involving us and we are actually getting regular opportunities to be involved in God's story.

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* 16. In general, which statement best describes your purpose for learning?

I don't know my purpose for learning. I don't feel very engaged in it.

I participate in learning because I know that good grades are important and I would like to go to college/University.

I engage in learning because I know that my learning is both good for my own development and for the world around me.

I engage in learning because my learning is an active way for me to explore what it means to play my part in God's unfolding story. My learning matters to God.

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* 1. Please indicate what school you attend

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* 2. Please indicate your grade level:

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* 3. Which answer best describes your teacher’s deep hope?

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* 4. How important is your teacher’s deep hope?

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* 5. Which answer best describes your classroom storyline?

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* 6. How important is your classroom storyline?

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* 7. Which statement best describes your learning in terms of connecting your learning to God's story?

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* 8. Regarding through-lines:

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* 9. How important are through-lines?

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* 10. Have you shared your learning with people from outside your class?

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* 11. How often do you learn from people (experts) outside your classroom/school?

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* 12. How often have you been involved in learning this year that was important to people beyond your classroom? Perhaps, your learning has met the needs of others?

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* 13. Which statement best describes the nature of your learning activities?

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* 14. Which statement best describes how often you, as the learner, are invited to provide 'voice' into the classroom learning?

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* 15. With regard to the nature of the questions that I have answered so far:

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* 16. In general, which statement best describes your purpose for learning?

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* 17. With regard to the questions above, is there anything you would like to say, that you feel you haven't had a chance to say?