E Parent Survey with track changes

Attachment E

Parent Survey

In the following pages, we will ask questions about your child’s care and early education. This survey is about your child’s main childcare provider or lead teacher. Please only think about this person when answering the following questions.

1. Since September, how often have you met with or talked to your childcare provider or teacher about the following?

[MARK ONE BOX IN EACH ROW.]

	Never	Rarely	Sometimes	Very often
a. Your child’s experiences in the education and care setting
b. Your child’s abilities
c. Your child’s general behavior
d. Your child’s learning and development
e. Goals you have for your child
f. What to expect at each stage of your child’s development
g. Your vision for your child’s future

2. Since September, how often have you met with or talked to talked to or met with your childcare provider or teacher about the following?

[MARKONE BOX IN EACH ROW.]

		Never	Rarely	Sometimes	Very often
a. Your provider’s expectations for your child
b. The rules your provider has for children in his or her care
c. How you feel about the care and education your child receives

3. How often do you have difficulty communicating with your childcare provider or teacher because he or she has a strong accent or speaks a different language than you?

[MARK ONLY ONE BOX.]

Never

Rarely

Sometimes

Very often

4. How comfortable would or do you feel sharing the following information with your childcare provider or teacher?

[MARK ONE BOX IN EACH ROW.]

	Very uncomfortable	Uncomfortable	Comfortable	Very comfortable
a. If your child has siblings
b. If you have other adult relatives living in your household
c. Your household schedule
d. Your marital status
e. Your personal relationship with a spouse or partner
f. Your employment status
g. Your financial situation
h. Your family life
i. The role that faith and religion play in your household
j. Your family’s culture and values
k. What you do outside of the education and care setting to encourage your child’s learning
l. How you discipline your child
m. Problems your child is having at home
n. Changes happening at home
o. Health issues your child has such as food allergies or asthma

5. If you had a problem with your childcare provider or teacher, how comfortable would you feel talking to him or her about it?

[MARK ONLY ONE BOX.]

Very uncomfortable

Uncomfortable

Comfortable

Very comfortable

6. How often does your childcare provider or teacher:

[MARK ONE BOX IN EACH ROW.]

	Never	Rarely	Sometimes	Very often
a. Help you say goodbye to your child when you drop him or her off?
b. Share information with you about your child’s day?
c. Offer you books or materials on parenting?
d. Suggest activities for you and your child to do together?
e. Ask you about the cultural values and beliefs you want him/her to communicate convey to your child?

7. How often does your childcare provider or teacher:

[MARK ONE BOX IN EACH ROW.]

	Never	Rarely	Sometimes	Very often
Ask about your family……………………..
b. Work with you to develop strategies you can use at home to support your child’s learning and development? ………………………….
c. Listen to your ideas about ways to change or improve the care and education education and care your child receives?
d. Offer you ideas or suggestions about parenting?
e. Provide you with opportunities to make decisions about your child’s education and care?
f. Provide you with opportunities to give feedback on his or her your provider’s performance?
g. Remember personal details about your family when speaking with you?
h. Contradict you in front of your child?

8. How much are the following statements like your childcare provider or teacher? My child care provider or teacher…

[MARK ONE BOX IN EACH ROW.]

	Not at all like my provider	A little like my provider	A lot like my provider	Exactly like my provider
a. Respects me as a parent…………………...
b. Asks me about my cultural values and practices. …
c. Is flexible in response to my work or school schedule …
d. Treats me like an expert on my child……...
e. Respects my family’s cultural values and practices…………………….......................
f. Asks me for ideas about way to change the education and care my child receives……..
g. Tells me how my child is progressing towards goals or developmental milestones…………………………………
h. Uses my feedback to adjust the education and care provided to my child……………
i. Encourages me to be involved in all aspects of my child’s care and education……………
j. Reflects the cultural diversity of students in activities……………………………………..
k. Prefers to stick to his/her own ways of teaching and caring for children……………
l. Encourages parents to provide feedback on the way he/she cares for and teaches children…………………………………….
m Uses information on new and better ways to teach and care for children…………………
n. Communicates Conveys the cultural values and beliefs I want my child to have……………………...

9. Please indicate how much you agree or disagree with the following statements.

[MARK ONE BOX IN EACH ROW.]

	Strongly disagree	Disagree	Agree	Strongly agree
a My child care provider or teacher is open to learning new ways to teach and care for my children.
b. My provider and I work together to make sure my child has the best care and support.

10. Please indicate how much the following words are like your childcare provider or teacher.

My childcare provider or teacher is…

[MARK ONE BOX IN EACH ROW.]

	Not at all like my provider	A little like my provider	A lot like my provider	Exactly like my provider
a. Caring
b. Understanding
c. Rude
d. Flexible
e. Dependable
f. Trustworthy
g. Impatient
h. Unfriendly
i. Respectful
j. Judgmental
k. Available

11. How much do you agree or disagree with the following statement?

My childcare provider or teacher sees this job as just a paycheck.

[MARK ONLY ONE BOX.]

Strongly disagree

Disagree

Agree

Strongly agree

12. How much do you agree or disagree with the following statements?

I trust that my childcare provider or teacher …

[MARK ONE BOX IN EACH ROW.]

	Strongly disagree	Disagree	Agree	Strongly agree
a. Can maintain a safe environment for my child
b. Has my child’s best interest at heart

13. How strongly do you agree or disagree with the following statements?

[MARK ONE BOX IN EACH ROW.]

	Strongly disagree	Disagree	Agree	Strongly agree
a. My childcare provider or teacher judges my family because of our faith and religion
b. My childcare provider or teacher judges my family because of our culture and values
c. My childcare provider or teacher judges my family because of our race/ethnicity
d. My childcare provider or teacher judges my family because of our financial situation

14. How easy or difficult is it for you to reach your childcare provider or teacher during the day if you have a question or if a problem comes up?

[MARK ONLY ONE BOX.]

Very difficult

Difficult

Easy

Very easy

15. On a scale of 1-5, where 1 is the worst you can imagine and 5 is the best you can imagine, how would you describe your relationship with your childcare provider or teacher?

[MARK THE BOX NEXT TO THE NUMBER THAT BEST DESCRIBES YOUR RELATIONSHIP.]

Worst Best

1

2

3

4

5

16. How old is your child

[MARK ONLY ONE BOX]

Less than 1 year old

1-2 years old

3-4 years old

5 years or older

17. For how long has your current childcare provider or teacher been teaching or caring for this child?

[MARK ONLY ONE BOX.]

Less than 6 months

6 months-less than 1 year

1 year-less than 2 years

2 years or more

18. What language do you most speak at home?

[MARK ONLY ONE BOX.]

English

Spanish

English and Spanish equally

English and another language equally

Other language

19. Thinking about all of your children, how many child care providers have you ever worked with?

[MARK ONLY ONE BOX.]

1

2-3

4-5

More than 5

20. Are you of Hispanic or Latino origin?

Yes

No

21. What is your race?

[MARK ALL THAT APPLY.]

White

Black or African American

American Indian or Alaska Native

Asian Indian

Chinese

Filipino

Japanese

Korean

Vietnamese

Other Asian

Native Hawaiian

Guamanian or Chamorro

Samoan

Other Pacific Islander

22. What is the highest level of education you have completed?

[MARK ONLY ONE BOX.]

Less than a high school diploma

High school diploma or GED

Some college, no degree

Associate’s degree

Bachelor’s degree

Graduate school degree

23. What would you say was your household’s income last year?

[MARK ONLY ONE BOX.]

Less than $25,000

$25,000-$34,999

$35,000-$44,999

$45,000- 54,999

$55,000-$74,999

$75,000 or more

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