Wednesday 4 June 2014

Australian Science Teachers Association seeks your assistance.

Delese Brewster as Senior Projects Officer is looking for help to determine primary teachers needs to ensure that they are well supported.

Are you able to help them, help you?

With permission I share Delese's message:

Dear Colleagues

There is a focus on ensuring that primary school teachers are well supported with innovative and meaningful tools and resources. Consequently, we seek the support of primary teaching staff to participate in a survey that aims to clearly determine their current needs as well as test their reactions to some new concepts. ASTA is conducting this survey with support from the Office of the Chief Scientist. It is endorsed by the Australian Primary Principals Association.

An independent company, Down To Earth Research (DTER), has been commissioned to undertake an online survey to collect the data required. The online survey is only part of a broader project that has already seen completed a series of group discussions and in-depth interviews. The online survey is relatively simple and should only take about 10 minutes to complete. Not only would we like you personally to complete the survey, we are seeking your assistance to distribute this invitation to your primary teacher network by forwarding them this email with the survey link.

All information provided via the survey will be treated as confidential, with responses compiled into a general summary that does not identify specific respondents or their school. We will provide all schools with a summary of the survey findings at project completion, which I’m sure you will find extremely interesting.

If you have any queries about the study, please contact Vic Dobos on email: vdobos@icloud.com or phone: 02 6282 9377.

To participate in the survey, please http://v8.smpsurveys.com/survey.jsp?KEY_SURVEY=f2ccfaeb-1375-4742-913c-a1cd793beec6&locale=en&UID= (you may have to press Ctrl + Click).

Thank you for your assistance.