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Chartered Teacher Suvery

17 05 2007

Please find below a copy of an email sent out to all staff. If you have not yet completed the survey please click on the link.

Hello,

My name is Joe McGeer and I am presently undertaking a PhD at the University of
Paisley and teaching part time at the University on the Chartered Teacher Programme. I have received permission from your Director to send you this email via the local authority intranet. The purpose of this email is to seek your support and cooperation by completing a questionnaire. My hope is that this research will enable the views of all teachers to be aired and hopefully be taken into account as the Programme is reviewed and presumably restructured. As well as being part of my study I feel it is very important that an independent academic survey, such as this, is undertaken and can make a contribution to the current review. The focus of my research is the Chartered Teacher Programme as a whole, covering its creation, progress to date and options for the future.

The survey will only take about 5 minutes to complete. I am wholly committed to complete confidentiality and anonymity and by undertaking the research in this way I do not have access to any personal information such as your name or email address. Therefore no individual, school or local authority can be identified in the final report or in any other associated correspondence.

I am undertaking this thesis under the supervision of Walter Humes, Research Professor at the University of
Paisley. Professor Humes will be happy to provide further information or clarification should you feel this would be helpful. He can be contacted at walter.humes@paisley.ac.uk.

If you have any further queries with regard to the survey please do not hesitate to contact me at mcgeer@btinternet.com or 01475 639765.

I have piloted the survey and the system appears to work well. It is possible, however, that the local authority firewall may at first prevent access. If this happens you may still access the site by pasting the web address below into your address bar. When you click ‘done’ at the end it automatically sends the results to me and moves you back to the SurveyMonkey homepage. If you are happy to take part in this survey please click on the link below which will take you to the survey site.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=477243652894
Thank you very much for helping me.
Joe McGeer

University of Paisley.

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Date : 17 May 2007
Categories : Role of the Chartered Teacher

2 responses to “Chartered Teacher Suvery”

19 05 2007: Julie Harvie (19:41:45) :

Hi, I completed your online questionnaire and am interested in the work you are doing. I would be keen to help you with any more work you are doing on the CT programme as I have just come through it at Stirling University and would also be interested in reading the results of your studies.

Please contact me if you require my assistance in any way.

Regards,
Julie Harvie
20 05 2007: Joe McGeer (13:07:33) :

Hi Julie,

Thanks for the offer. One thing I would really welcome is any material you may have on the Scheme eg journal articles, books, meetings etc. Indeed any development. For example I did not know about this site. I have to be slightly careful since I have to demonstrate that all the work is my own. Like your master’s dissertation.

If any other CT is reading this I would also welcome any such information.

So far I have had a very good response indeed. 23 authorities have responded so far and only 3 have said no. About 9 have so far issued the email and I have had about 700 responses so far. It is much better than I hoped. Thanks to everyone who responed. I am very keen to get as many CT’s as possible to respond since their views are vital to my work.

Joe McGeer