School Wide Teaching Performance Survey NewStar Chinese School Oct 2013 The School Board of Directors

Participate Rate 36 out of 183 students’ parents participated this survey

Survey Participation by Class There were no parents from C7, C9 and M3 classes participated this survey C8 class had the most participants

Teacher fosters learning enthusiasm in the classroom

Teacher respects and encourages students’ effort, be attentive to their need and monitor their progress

Teacher disciplines students. If the student has disruptive/disobedient behaviors, the parents are requested to attend the class to help/correct their child’s behaviors.

Teacher maintains regular communication with their parents. Teacher/TA also provides the home work to parents via so the parents could assist students if necessary.

The home work that teacher assigns are

Teacher/TA corrects the home work timely. Student fixes errors with Teacher/TA’s assistance.

Teacher asks the students to clean trash and keep the classroom clean, put the chairs to original locations, not to open windows and maintain the classroom setting before class is over.

You read school Newsletter.

Parents’ suggestions to the teacher to improve her/his teaching to parents every week what the students learned and what will they learn. Also list the homework, so we can good prepare our kids before they go to school. First, make sure we have the same teacher for the rest of the year. Then make sure the TAs assist instead of doing homework. Lastly, have the teacher assign more homework. May let students watch some short video regarding Chinese story More communication with parents; Use multimedia to have more fun Talk more to individual student To make study Chinese fun for students The xx class teacher is new here. She need be better informed and more assisting and attentions from principles and managers She needs more experience and perhaps some mentoring. Ying Fang is the most amazing teacher! She sets high, reasonable expectation of the students and they are rising to the challenge. This is the best class I have ever seen. Zhu lao shi is great. She uses different teaching techniques and gives the class a variety of assignments. Alex is great. Ms. Wang is a great teacher, both my daughter and me like her. Great job, Ying! Best teacher I have ever meet. Ms. Ying Fang is doing an amazing job because her teaching changes my daughter from "hating Chinese school" to "it is actually fun in Ms. Fang's class". Big thanks to Ms. Fang! Awesome teacher. She is wonderful. No suggestion. Lucky to have her teaching my daughter.

Summary 36 out of 183 students parents participated this survey. Response rate 20%. Three classes’ parents did not participate this survey Survey results favor teachers regarding: * respect students * assigned home work * great teacher team Teaching quality improvement opportunities: * fosters learning enthusiasm in the classroom * maintains regular communication with parents * disciplines students * asks the students to clean trash and keep the classroom clean 89% Survey Participants read every NewsLetter Suggestions from Parents: * mentoring a new teacher * Use multimedia to make learning Chinese more fun

Thanks parent volunteer Haiyong Li for posting this survey on line Thanks all the parents who participated this survey Your voice has been heard Board members will work with teachers based on your feedback Thank you!