Fifth Grade Parent Satisfaction Survey
June 1, 2010
Dear Parents/Guardians:
Invitation to Participate: Throughout the school year we have asked for your
feedback on how your children have responded to the piloted 5/6 Health and
Wellness Curriculum. Now as we near the end of the year we are asking for your
help once again to evaluate the overall quality of the curriculum to ensure
that we have reached our goals. I know that this is a busy time of year for
you, but I hope that you will take just a little time to participate in this
brief web survey.
To complete the survey
online, please go to the URL below by no later than June 11th,
2010.
Purpose: Questions arose while developing the curriculum
about what topics were most important to be included in a core wellness
curriculum and just how extensive or far reaching such a curriculum should be
in order to be considered adequate. Additionally, questions also presented
themselves about the depth to which any particular topic needed to be addressed
in terms of it being age appropriate and what indicators we might use to
measure whether students are actually learning the material in a manner that
promotes their own lifelong health and wellbeing.
In order to answer these
questions we reviewed several health, physical education, and wellness programs
with our target population of the fifth and sixth grades in mind. We consulted
with psychologists, pediatricians, physical education specialists, nurses, and
experts in other fields such as adolescent sexuality and stress management to
ascertain what they perceive to be part of a core wellness curriculum for this
age range and to what degree the material should be presented.
As a result of our research
we identified a core wellness program for the fifth and sixth grade that represented
the results of our initial investigations. We identified six Domains that, in
turn, are each constituted by a cluster of important topics: Health Promotion
and Disease Prevention; Personal and Interpersonal Life Coping Skills, Tobacco,
Alcohol and other Drugs, Human Growth/Development and Sexuality; Fitness; and
Safety.
Confidentiality: Your answers will be completely confidential. Moreover, the results of
the survey will be reported in a summary format, so again no one will link you
to your responses. Text comments will be reported verbatim, so please do not
provide identifying information in your text comments.
Thank you in advance for your participation. If you
have any questions about the administration of the survey, please contact Jasmin
Whitfield at whitfieldj@sidwell.edu
Web address: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XH5R56T