Literacy Moment Survey Results
At Friday’s faculty meeting, teachers took a brief survey to indicate their initial impressions of the Literacy Moment here at AVHS. In this month’s newsletter, I’d like to share a few of those results and observations with you. Of the sixty four teachers with a non-ninth grade class, forty of them returned a literacy survey, which means these findings represent about 63% of the potential teachers who participated in the program. In general, teachers were considerably enthusiastic about the program. All 40 of the respondents indicated that they participated in the literacy moment. That is a strong response, though, one should be skeptical of a bias since about 20-25 teachers did not complete the survey. Thus generalizing from this data is more of a broad indicator versus a detailed picture. Bringing Books According to teacher observations, classes varied in their participation. About 57% of the teachers stated that 75...