Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Student Survey: What Do You Want for Adult Education?

San Mateo Adult School is now part of a group of Adult Schools and Community Colleges - a consortium - in San Mateo County.

The name of our special group is ACCEL.

The purpose of the group is to provide Adult Education to the County of San Mateo.

To provide the best Adult Education, we need to know what students want and need.

To find out what students want and need, we are asking students to complete a survey.

Teachers Patricia and Lisa
They are leaders in ACCEL


Teacher Lisa is the leader for this student survey project. 

She is organizing everything.






Last week, evening ESL students completed this survey.

Next week, on Tuesday, June 17th, morning ESL students will complete the survey.

Teacher David with student leaders
Marco, Marina, and Maricruz

In both evening and morning, student leaders are helping. 

Students are helping with Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and other languages.

They are translating, explaining, and supporting students so they can understand and answer the questions.

Not every consortium or every school is doing this. 

Our school is very special in this way.  Our school is working hard to include students in the plans for the new Regional Consortium system for Adult Education.  We hope other schools will do this also.

A big thank you to all the student leaders who are helping, to Teacher Lisa for her leadership, to SMAS Leaders Mr. T and Tim for their support, and to all the students who complete the survey!



Here is the student survey:


Facilitators:                                                                                           Language  _________________________

(6/14 version)                                                                                           Number of students  _________________

 

 


SMAS Student Survey

 

1.     What services would you like to have at San Mateo Adult School?

Please raise your hand for each of these reasons:    (count the number of hands and write down)

 

a.   Academic Counseling     

b.  Personal Counseling                 

c.   Tutoring
    

Are there any other services you would like?  What are they? (write down)



       Do you have a career / job plan?

Please raise your hand if yes.    ____________  (count the number of hands and write down)

 

Do you feel you have the information and resources to pursue that?

Please raise your hand if yes.    ____________   (count the number of hands and write down)

 
What would help you pursue that plan?   (write down)      


 
a.   Training program                      
b.  License or certification information                                
c.   Personal Advising                    
d.  Specific classes (for example, career-specific vocabulary)

 

Do you have other suggestions?  What are they? (write down)    

 

3.      Do you plan to go to Community College?

 Please raise your hand if yes.  ____________   (count the number of hands and write down)

 

What do you plan to study?




 
 
 
 

 


Please raise your hand for each of these reasons:    (count the number of hands and write down)

 

a.   English              

b.  Classes for a college degree

c.   Classes for a career                 

 

What are some of the classes you plan to take?  (write down)     

What skills or support do you need to go to Community College?



 

a.   College tour/orientation  

b.  Help with college enrollment process                 

c.   Help with financial aid process  

d.  Transition class taught at San Mateo Adult School         

 

Do you have other suggestions?  What are they? (write down)    

 

If you don’t plan to go to Community College, what is your goal after studying English at the Adult School?


a.   Family involvement (for example, help children with homework)  

b.  Community involvement (for example, help in your child’s classroom)

c.   Take other kinds of classes at the Adult School

    

Are there other reasons?  What are they? (write down)     

 

4.     Do you sometimes not come to school? 

Please raise your hand for each of these reasons:    (count the number of hands and write down)


 

 
 
 

 

 

 
a.   Childcare                                             
b.  Transportation                                      
c.   Work schedule                         
d.  Classes not what they need      


Are there other reasons you don’t come to school?  What are they? (write down) 



5.     Do you know people who can’t/don’t come to school?

Please raise your hand for each of these reasons:    (count the number of hands and write down)




a.   Childcare                                             

b.  Transportation                                      

c.   Work schedule                         

d.  Classes not what they need      

 

Are there other reasons they don’t come to school?  What are they? (write down) 

 

 

 

 


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