PTO Today

Hi
I was wondering if anybody would share with me a teacher survey you put out? This is my first year as PTO president and I have put out a survey for parents and received a good response. I want to include the teachers too to hear their ideas/gripes.
Thanks
Deb

We got more input by attending a staff meeting and just sending a letter asking for their input. We have a PTO mailbox in the main office and we encouraged them to give us their ideas and feedback. Since we followed through on so many of then and gave the teacher the credit, we have a great response rate each year.
If its a formal as a survey, they may not respond.

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Doing it for my one and only ~~ my son!

We do a 'wish list' that we post on our website so parents can donate items for the classrooms. We send out a survey asking the teachers to think of anything they want for their room or the school in general. We also include any questions we might have that year and a space for the teachers to tell us any concerns they have. We get all of these surveys back since the wish list catches their eye.

Thanks so much for your responses. I agree with OneandOnly that alot of survey probably won't be returned, but I like the idea adding the wish list. Thanks so much!

when we did ours we actually just took ten things and asked them to put them in order of the importance that they see. We had things like volunteering, classroom donations, contributing to field trips, class parents, etc. It was nice to get the results because they all placed the same items on the top and then we knew as a group how to help them the most. There was a spot for suggestions as well.

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"When you stop learning you stop growing."

What did you use as your ten things. I am looking for some ideas that will help us to communicate with the teachers.

This is my first year involved with the PTO at a level of handling it all (along with one other person). Our PTO has never been a big overall school orgranziation and we would like to see that changed. Can someone send me some parent suverys as well as teacher surverys that might help us get started in the right direction. My email address is... lbfpto@frontiernet.net

Our first meeting is Oct 3rd in hopes of getting more involvement from the parents and more input from the teachers. Please HELP!!

I would also like to know the things you used on your list...First year as PTO President and new to the middle school, so I have NO CLUE what the teachers would like from us. I would appreciate the help..Thanks in advance, Staci BreedPTO@aol.com