| 1.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:14:00 PM | Triple Entry, Quick write, and sum it up are the most tried and used strategies. |
| 2.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:15:00 PM | We need to focus on higher level thinking in order to assist our students to retain information. I also think that it shows that we are trying. |
| 3.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:15:00 PM | We are becoming comfortable with and using several of the stratigies often. |
| 4.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:15:00 PM | This is still early in terms of how long we have been using literacy strategies. People are at least trying things out to see what works for their students and with their lessons. |
| 5.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:15:00 PM | The staff is immersed in literacy strategies. |
| 6.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:15:00 PM | A majority of teachers are implementing lit strategies and the shorter the strategy the more frequently it is used. Limited high level thinking strategies. |
| 7.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:15:00 PM | Teachers tend to use strategies that are easier to incorporate into existing curriculum framework. Some of the more powerful strategies are underutilized. |
| 8.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:15:00 PM | The two highest used are the ones that can be quickly adapted for any subject. |
| 9.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:16:00 PM | most teachers have attempted to incorporate the literacy strategies in their classroom. As the staff has more opportunities to build lessons around the strategies, the try often will increase. Also, there are only so many writing strategies that you can use in any given time period. The more knowledge students have, the more developed the strategies can be. |
| 10.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:16:00 PM | The really easy strategies seem to be used most of the time. The ones that take more prep time or class time are used less. |
| 11.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:16:00 PM | That there are 5 strategies that most use often.ഀ
That we have done well with trying various strategies.ഀ
I was surprised by the somewhat high percentage of LS not tried. |
| 12.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:16:00 PM | Most people who tried the strategies would use them again. The Quick Write is the most popular strategy. Teachers reported that they use it often 74% of the time. |
| 13.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:16:00 PM | My conclution is that we all jumped through some hoops this year with literacy techniques. I am not sure what the impact has been in reguars to teaching content. |
| 14.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:16:00 PM | There are a few strategies that are used frequently and many used very often. |
| 15.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:16:00 PM | Quick writes and sum it up numbers would indicate that the activities that require more writing are being utilized the most. Personally, I find the use of problematic situation and cornell notes of great value in the classroom and am pleased that other do as well. |
| 16.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:16:00 PM | I think we're doing ok with trying them but we need to integrate a wider variety of strategies more consistently. |
| 17.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:16:00 PM | Literacy strategies are being used in SAHS by a large number of the staff. |
| 18.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:16:00 PM | That a lot of teachers feel most comfortable using the triple entry vocabulary journal and the quick write literacy strategies. Maybe it is not that the teacher feels most comfortable but maybe those are the literacy strategies that work best for most courses. A majority of courses have vocabulary words. |
| 19.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:16:00 PM | More useful: triple entry vocab, quick write, sum it up, graphic organizer.ഀ
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Less useful:partner small group vocab, Bloom's thinking prompts, coding/comprehension monitoring, save the last word, Cornell notes. |
| 20.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:16:00 PM | What is Coding/Comprehension Monitoring? I do not remember this.... Cornell Notes are not effective for what I teach. (there are no textbooks). |
| 21.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:16:00 PM | Looks like triple journal and quick writes work well for our teaching. |
| 22.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:16:00 PM | I would say about 33% of the staff are not using literacy strategies. Most of the strategies used are lower level of thinking strategies that are easier to implement into the lesson. |
| 23.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:17:00 PM | There is some consensus as to which strategies seem to be most beneficial. Many strategies are tried once and not repeated. About 20% to 30% of the faculty has not tried many of the strategies. |
| 24.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:17:00 PM | At this point everyone should have tried all the strategies! ഀ
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Again coding is not applicable in math, and I find that 2 column note taking is more of an organizational tool than anything else. ഀ
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It is nice to see that a large percentage of staff has tried the strategies. |
| 25.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:17:00 PM | It would seem that some strategies are useful across content areas and some work best in specific classes. |
| 26.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:17:00 PM | Over 50% of the teachers that took this survey use the TEV and the Quick Write. Is it because they are the easiest to implement? Maybe the reason why teachers are not using the other strategies as often is that they are not sure how to incorporate them into their lessons. Some of the ones that are not used by the majority of teachers are wonderful strategies that have helped many students. For example, the Cornell Notes are a great way to organize the material on paper and are helpful to the type of students that I work with. |
| 27.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:17:00 PM | I think it appears that people are using more of the strategies that mimic the kinds of tasks that good teachers do anyway. For example, a high percentage use the triple entry vocab, but many teachers dealt well with vocabulary before the literacy initiative. |
| 28.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:17:00 PM | Many of thr underutilized strategies were just introduced this year. I would love to see results after next year and after more time is devoted to developing more lessons. |
| 29.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:17:00 PM | The lower level strategies are used by most. |
| 30.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:17:00 PM | I would think that most people used vocabulary and quick writes in their classrooms prior to the literacy focus. These are the ones being used the most but probably we were all ready using them. The ones that seem like they would help with higher order thinking seem to be the ones used less frequently. |
| 31.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:17:00 PM | Some of the simpler strategies have a more universal application than those that require more complex procedures. |
| 32.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:18:00 PM | Most staff have tried close to 50% of all the literacy strategies. I have overheard several staff because of the time needed to cover all the members say that they are way behind in their curriculum this year and I wonder if this could because of the time to cover the Lit statergies. |
| 33.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:18:00 PM | It would seem, just from the data, that there seem to be more frequent and hopefully more beneficial strategies; or they're easiest to meet requirements. Also, some are being utilized by a small group and found worth repeating. Overall, there are probably strategies which should be discontinued because practically no one reused it. |
| 34.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:18:00 PM | Those strategies used most often seem to be the ones that are most easily incorporated into ALL subject areas which would make sense as to why you see these being used most often. Most are easily created and incorporated into a variety of lessons. In other words, some of those used less often take more time to create especially in certain subject areas. ഀ
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Some of those strategies that are used less often are those that would be much more difficult to incorporate often in my subject area. |
| 35.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:18:00 PM | we are very comfortable as a staff with certain strategies- triple entry vocab and quickwrites. 6 of the strategies (not including TEV & QW) about 1/4 - 1/3 of us use regularly. we may need "remediation" with small group vocabulary, anticipation reaction guide, coding, Save the Last Word, Jigsaws, and Cornell notes. |
| 36.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:18:00 PM | It is alarming that Bloom's Thinking Prompts are only used 23.9% of the time as it should be the basis of all prompts, all the time. |
| 37.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:18:00 PM | About half of the faculty feels comfortable enough with some strategies (a little more than a third of the strategies) to use them often. Based on the handwritten notes, some strategies are not used as often as the writer would like to see. Perhaps teachers are not as comfortable with some of these strategies--many of them are very time consuming and require significant planning, and in these days of reduced planning time, that might be a burden for some teachers. Of the strategies tried, few people indicated that they did not again use one they tried, which seems to suggest that if people try a strategy, they make the attempt to use it again. |
| 38.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:18:00 PM | Lots of literacy being used some groups/individuals favoring different strategies...but everybody is using them. Another thought is that some strategies are more acceptable or useful for some subjects. |
| 39.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:18:00 PM | The strategies that involve greater depth of understanding are underutilized and/or not yet well understood. Perhaps a literacy specialist could take a department through the process of planning a unit of instruction and demonstrate how and where those strategies would fit into that unit. |
| 40.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:18:00 PM | analytic graphic organizers to me are just a trendy term for what we've always done on organizational worksheets...they tend to have always been used successfully and are still successful today. Sum it up is also a skill set that has also been used forever as a reflective tool and it too now just has a new trendy name. The same goes with triple entry journal...another name for the vocab sheets that have always been done. To sum it up...what has always worked well...still does... |
| 41.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:18:00 PM | I guess from this dat ait would seem that again there are a lot of literacy strategies being used but not necessarily may of them being used a lot. Personally, I have my "Favorites" that I use because I am more comfortable with them. I need to use some other strategies in order to become more comfortable with those as well. |
| 42.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:18:00 PM | We do the easy to grade strategies, quick write/ Triple entry these are the most user friendly, they take the least amount of effort to change and fit into any situation. I giess they take teh least amount of planning or understanding how to use. I would like to see these two taken away and then see what people do. |
| 43.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:19:00 PM | It would be interesting to compare student knowledge in classes utilizing many literacy strategies frequently with classes with few to no strategies used. Or to a teacher's past student achievement. certainly the most used strategies are for low level learning or simple content connections. |
| 44.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:19:00 PM | One thing that stands out is that when people tried a strategy, they might have used it again; there are very few strategies that the majority uses all the time |
| 45.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:19:00 PM | Many things are tried, but few things are repeated or continuously attempted. Not enough time allowed for positive follow up. |
| 46.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:19:00 PM | Most staff have at least tried the bulk of the strategies presented.ഀ
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Many strategies appear to be used frequently.ഀ
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I'm wondering how valid the results are since they are anecdotal; can something be identified as a "focus area" based on staff reporting alone? Could it be, for instance, that some teachers are using coding on a near daily basis but not labeling it as such? I think that an examination of teacher lessons and practices that might fall under the umbrella of these strategies would be in order. |
| 47.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:19:00 PM | All of the strategies have been used during instruction. There are four strategies used more often than not. |
| 48.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:20:00 PM | People appear to favor the "low-prep"/"no prep" strategies. |
| 49.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:20:00 PM | The easiest strategies to implement seem to be most frequently used. But what about Cornell notes? Who doesn't use that? And yet 37% have not tried it? I find that to be strange. |
| 50.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:20:00 PM | We are using a lot of literacy strategies....some more tan others. |
| 51.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:20:00 PM | It seems to be that the more user friendly strategies are used more often. For example, coding comprehension has been tried, but not used often, since it requires extensive extra teaching just to use the strategies. Strategies like the triple entry vocab, quickwrite, sum it up, and graphic organizers are much easier to incorporate in day to day lessons.ഀ
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I was surprised to see that Cornell notes were not used more often. |
| 52.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:21:00 PM | Instructors tend to use strategies that they feel fit into their lessons more frequently and there are a few that are favorites while there are some that are not as popular among instructors. |
| 53.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:21:00 PM | IF IT TAKES LARGE AMOUNTS OF TIME WE SHY AWAY |
| 54.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:21:00 PM | Good information on stategies tried and not used verse tried and used often and provides insight on what to give a second look. |
| 55.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:21:00 PM | I am heartened by the "Use often" results. It appears we are covering vocabulary, informal writing, and summarizing. Obviously, we could utilize additional strategies, but it appears the staff has settled on a number of ones they feel are effective for the areas mentioned above. Going forward we can certainly revisit previous strategies and explore new ones, but we may be able to sacrifice redundant strategies, such as Partner Small Group Vocabulary. |
| 56.ഀ
| 5/11/2009 6:21:00 PM | Triple entry journal, Quick Write, Sum it Up, and Analytic Graphic Organizers seem to have been integrated in by at least half of the staff. This may be because they lend themselves to a wide variety of content. Most of the types have been tried; and I would conclude that coding/comprehension monitoring, save the last word, jigsaw, and knowledge rating guide were not integrated. Perhaps that is because they take too much time or they do not fit the content as well. |
| 57.ഀ
| 5/12/2009 1:38:00 PM | I was absent for the staff meeting so I do not have the results to comment on. Sorry. |