Title: School-Age Child Care Train the Trainers Project 1995-1996
Comments: Train the Trainers. Pre-Training Assessment. Questionnaire
and Focus Group.
Contact who has experience using this assessment instrument:
Cornell Cooperative Extension
Respondent Number (enter your birth date mo/day/year)*
*respondent Numbers are only used for a record of who attends
multiple sessions.
TRAINING SITE
The primary purpose of the SACC training you are about to receive
is to provide you with teaching materials and techniques that
you can use in future training with your staff members to make
your school-age child care program more effective.
First, some questions about how you now do your training at your
program.
Second, we would like your opinions about how school-age child
staff training might be most effectively delivered.
Your honest responses are necessary and important for us to know
how to plan future staff development. Each participant should
enter his/her birth date at the top of this page to help us keep
track of who attends more than one workshop session. All responses
to this questionnaire are anonymous and confidential. Please mark
the one best answer to each question.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Please feel free to elaborate on any of the questions on the back
of page 6 of the questionnaire.
1. Since children are often in school age child care 3 hours or
less daily, staff training on a regular basis is:
[ ] NOT IMPORTANT
[ ] SOMEWHAT IMPORTANT
[ ] VERY IMPORTANT
2. School age child care programs in our community have access
to staff training:
[ ] FREQUENTLY
[ ] SOMETIMES
[ ] RARELY
3. School age child care programs in our community find the cost
of training:
[ ] PROHIBITIVELY EXPENSIVE
[ ] SOMEWHAT COSTLY, BUT MANAGEABLE
[ ] NOT THAT EXPENSIVE
[ ] THERE ARE NO KNOWN TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES IN OUR COMMUNITY
4. As program director/manager/training how comfortable do you
feel about doing training for your staff:
[ ] NOT COMFORTABLE AT ALL
[ ] SOMEWHAT COMFORTABLE
[ ] USUALLY COMFORTABLE
[ ] VERY COMFORTABLE
5. At present, do you offer training for your staff?
[ ] YES, continue to question 6.
[ ] NO, go to question 19, bottom of page 3.
6. Do you provide staff training during regularly scheduled staff
meetings?
[ ] RARELY
[ ] SOMETIMES
[ ] ON A REGULAR BASIS, E.G., MONTHLY, BIWEEKLY, WEEKLY
[ ] OTHER TIMES RATHER THAN IN STAFF MEETINGS
7. Do you provide staff training other than during staff meetings
at least once a year?
[ ] YES
[ ] NO
8. If yes,
[ ] HALF DAY TRAINING
[ ] FULL DAY TRAINING
[ ] OTHER:
9. Do your staff members attend formally taught classes, workshops,
seminars or courses about child care?
[ ] FREQUENTLY
[ ] SOMETIMES
[ ] RARELY
[ ] NO
[ ] NO KNOWN COURSE OFFERED IN OUR COMMUNITY
10. Does your training program invite experts on particular topics
to meet with staff as part of staff training?
[ ] FREQUENTLY
[ ] SOMETIMES
[ ] RARELY
[ ] NO
11. Are staff members expected to "study" on their own
as part of staff training, e.g., view assigned video tapes, read
assigned materials?
[ ] FREQUENTLY
[ ] SOMETIMES
[ ] RARELY
[ ] NO
12. How much total training time do your staff members receive
during one year?
[ ] 0 HOURS
[ ] 1-14 HOURS
[ ] 15-30 HOURS
[ ] 31-50 HOURS
[ ] 50+ HOURS
13-17 Who does most of your staff training? (Check all appropriate
answers.)
[ ] INSERVICE FOR STAFF DONE BY DIRECTOR
[ ] INSERVICE FOR STAFF DONE BY EXPERT OUTSIDE THE PROGRAM
[ ] STAFF ATTEND FORMAL TRAINING PROGRAMS CONDUCTED BY PROFESSIONALS,
E.G., INSERVICE, WORKSHOPS
[ ] STAFF ATTEND FORMAL CLASSES OR SOURCES, E.G., COLLEGE CLASSES,
PARENTING OR DISCIPLINE MANAGEMENT CLASSES
[ ] OTHER:
18. Note briefly any other training procedures used with your
staff, but not described above.
19. What kind of training would you find especially helpful for
working with SACC children - 5-13 years old.