Initiative+Survey

To establish the need for implementation of this initiative, I first developed a survey using “Survey Monkey” to assess the technology needs of the teachers here at Sussex Technical High School. The survey was developed and emailed to the 67 teachers here at Tech (support staff not included in survey) on May 16, 2010. I received 44 responses to the survey; approximately 66% of our teachers completed the survey. The intent of this survey was to establish a “base line” of sorts to determine the importance of textbook use in our school based on 3 separate batteries of questions. Firstly, I wanted to obtain a clear picture of who is using textbooks, how often, and what could be done to keep this information current. Secondly I wanted a general idea of replacement cost of these textbooks; and finally I wanted to know who felt they would benefit from the access of technology in their classroom and who would support this initiative.

The link to the survey is as follows: [] .