Virginia Speak Up: Students K-2 Group Survey

Dear K-2 Teachers,

Thank you for facilitating this survey with your class. Our job is to make it easy for you to do this. The student survey for grades K-2 includes 9 multiple choice questions and one (1) open-ended question. Remember this survey is set up in a group format, so please enter the total number of students responding to each question option.

Considerations before you facilitate the survey

You will be asking students to raise their hands in response to each question. If you are concerned about students’ privacy you can have the students write out their answers or you can skip that question.
For the open-ended question (#10), we recommend that you facilitate a 5-minute class discussion to select your group's favorite answers to this question. Please feel free to share with us as many of your students' ideas as you wish.
You can use any of the questions to have a discussion with your students. Students have lots of ideas that they want to share and the Speak Up survey can help support those important discussions.
Some teachers like to complete the survey in multiple sessions.
- We have set the survey up so that you can Save and Continue your progress. Using this feature requires you to enter your email, but we do not track that information in the data results.
- You could also use the print version and record your students’ responses on paper, then complete this digital survey after collecting responses to all the questions.
You know your students best. If you don’t think they will understand the question or a response option, you can rephrase the language. If a student cannot answer a question, it is okay.

Introductory text to read to your class if you wish:

Hello Students:

Our class has a very special opportunity today to share our ideas with a national organization that cares about how schools are using technology for learning. The name of the organization is Project Tomorrow and each year, Project Tomorrow asks teachers, students and parents to answer some questions on a survey about how they are using computers and the Internet both at school and at home. We are going to fill out that survey together today as a class.

I am going to read a question from the survey and then give you some possible answers. Please raise your hand when I read a possible answer that is true for you. One of the last questions on the survey is a discussion question. So, we will have a discussion about your possible answers to that question. I will then input your ideas into the computer and send it to Project Tomorrow.

Students all over the country just like you are participating in this survey with their teachers. Your answers are very important to Project Tomorrow. The people at Project Tomorrow will share what we tell them with our national leaders in Washington DC to help make it easier for all students and teachers to use technology in the classroom. They also want to thank you for your participation in this survey.