Analyzing Children's Pre-Parent Survey

Data Analysis Methods

The pre-parent survey (Appendix D) indicated that most of the parents wanted the children to learn how to write their first and last names, and engaging children in letter and number recognition. Three parents felt that their children needed help learning to share due to being the only child in the home and only being exposed to the other children in their classroom. Two parents indicated that their children need support in social and emotional development regarding expressing their emotions. Six parents expressed that their children need additional support in name writing. Two parents addressed that their children needed additional support in rote counting. Six more parents would like their child to recognize the numbers one through ten.

This added to the baseline I already generated with the pre-parent surveys (Appendix D) and the individual learning plans. Once I completed the assessment on the eight children I noticed that some children may need additional support in handling the pencil to build their fine motor development. But many children needed to be reminded the order of the letters in their name to begin writing their name, along with the directions of how to form some letters that they had trouble making. I did an overview of all eight children’s individual learning plan goals which the parents created at the beginning of the school year. The goals that were set from the beginning of the year were in alignment with the pre-parent surveys (Appendix D).

In week one, I noticed many children had to be reminded to sign in on the sign in sheet. Most of the children did not have any desire to write their names for the parents or