Survey...

One of my action steps for my research was to create, give, and analyze a survey.  The survey was about the feelings and thoughts of teachers in reguards to administrative walk throughs.  I had a great response on the surveys and several suggestions from teachers that would benefit the quality of  walk throughs.  The majority of the teachers that participated like the idea of walk throughs and ALL thought they were beneficial.  Most said walk throughs keep them on their toes all day long.  The question, "o you feel walk throughs encourage you to be more creative in your classroom in reguards to the activites you choose?" got an equal amount of yes and no's, which was interesting to me.  Lot's eel that walk throughs help them actively monitor more.  It was interesting that the majority said walk throughs frustrate them and about half said walk throughs make them nervous.  Walk throughs should only be frustrating if the principal is ONLY saying negative things, and is always coming when they KNOW you are not ready.  In that case, I would try to fix the things my principal feels negatively about and ALWAYS be prepared for a walk through.  Reading these surveys were very eye opening as a future administrator.  I will administer this same survey at the END of the year and look forward to seeing how opinions may change.