Yesterday I shared my student questionnaire so I find it only apt to share my parent questionnaire as well. While there are so many things I wanted to ask my parents, I wanted to keep it short and to the point. As always, feel free to make a copy and make it your own.
Here is a link to the actual form
Here are just the questions on the form:
Tell Me A Little Bit About Your Child
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What is the most important thing I should know about your child?
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What is your child passionate about?
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What would you love your child to get better at?
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Overall how does your child feel about school and 5th grade?
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My child learns best when the teacher is….
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Great friends for my child are ….
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My child does not work well with…
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What is your child’s favorite book?
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What fears does your child have? (Big or small)
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What is the best way to motivate your child?
Tell Me A Little Bit About You and Your Family
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What are you looking forward to with 5th grade?
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How would you like to be involved with your child’s education?
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What is your preferred method of communication (email, phone call, meeting, note…)
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Does your family have any special celebrations or traditions you would like to share with the class?
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What subject/area did you dislike when you went to school?
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What subject/area did you love when you went to school?
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I think 5th grade will be….
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A typical afternoon after school looks like this in our life…
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Who else lives at your house (siblings, pets etc.?)
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Anything else you would like to tell me that will help me make this a successful year?
Pernille Ripp 
This is excellent! Thank you so much for posting it!
Great questionnaire. Too often the children that I need the most help to understand are the ones whose parents don’t send back the questionnaire. Do you get a good response from your parents?
This is an excellent question from Bev…what is your return ratio? I have had the same results with parents not returning forms and the families I really need to hear from are the ones that remain silent. How do you encourage parents to return the form?
My return rate is usually 100%, however, we aso used to have orientation day where parents would have time to fill it out. This year I will be mailing it out to parents with my welcome letter and then also give them time during our open house. Usually we don’t have much of a problem getting them back, however, if we don’t, I do think that also tells a story in itself.
I have the luxury of a small classroom population (maximum of 18), so I have a short, informal meeting with all my families face to face and I will certainly be adding some of your questions this year – thanks for your openness 🙂
This questionnaire is excellent!! Thank you so much for sharing! I’m thinking I can use it with my college students….and this semester I start training teachers! They will love it!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
I would love to use this if you don’t mind! I have been teaching fourth grade for 9 years and this year I will be teaching fifth. Great questionnaire!
Please do use it or make it your own, I put it out there so that others didn’t have to start from scratch.
I love this questionnaire – a really effective way of encouraging parent involvement from the very beginning of the year and of obtaining some really useful information. As I work in a PYP work I may well adapt some of the questions to include IB learner profile or PYP attitudes, but I do think the content of the original questionnaire is already excellent. Thank you for sharing!
Great idea – I typically do a “letter to me” with the same types of questions. However, this year I’m giving parents a choice – letter or google form to fill in. Good luck on a great year!
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