2009-10 Annual Survey - Results

2009-2010 LVQ Annual Survey – Results (10 surveys submitted) Question 1: Professional development Based on previous surveys, members would like to see professional development in the following areas. Please indicate if you feel each subject is still relevant to your needs. Purple – PD topics of very high interest

Orange – PD topics of high interest

Blue – PD topics of interest

Green – PD topics of no interest

Subject Community partnerships (exchange of ideas and examples of past partnerships, events, etc.) Creating e-bulletins Curriculum renewal/Adult literacy curriculum in schools Database creation Essential Skills Global approaches to recruitment Health issues ICT (Information and Computer Technology) Innovative approaches to literacy service delivery Management models Marketing your centre New adult learners - who are they now? Portfolios and e-portfolios Reading & understanding financial statements & reports Speech pathology Staff roundtable and sharing Statistics gathering Student retention/motivation Volunteer participation in nontutoring activities Writing effective funding proposals

Relevant

Not relevant

Total number that answered

% considered relevant

7

0

7

100

3 5

1 1

4 6

75 83.3

2 6 4 5 6

2 0 0 2 0

4 6 4 7 6

50 100 100 71.4 100

6

1

7

85.7

5 6 5

1 0 1

6 6 6

83.3 100 83.3

1 4

4 3

5 7

20 57.1

5 7 6 8 5

1 0 0 0 1

6 7 6 8 6

83.3 100 100 100 83.3

6

1

7

85.7

Question 2: Professional development – Indicate any professional development subjects you would like to see presented this year not already mentioned above. answered question

7

skipped question

3

1. Encouraging an active board of director Policies and Procedures Understanding the hierarchy of a non profit organization, ie, who give orders to whom Human Resources - management, issues etc. making the most of your meeting Human Resources HR 2. Effective Boards and Committees keeping the meeting on track Updating Job descriptions Training 3. Contracts and Staff Updating By-laws 4. Budgets and Accounts - tracking over the year 5. Programming - balance and continuity

Question 3: Priorities –Member organizations’ top three priorities for 2009-2010 answered question

9

skipped question 1 1 Recruitment - students and volunteers

Effectively matching students to tutors. Volunteer Recruitment train more tutors Funding - increasing revenues Increase students Training Outreach (urban part of our region) health literacy 2. Student and tutor support and retention Supporting the volunteers and retaining young tutors Student Recruitment community awareness Governance - bylaw revisions Increase tutors regional networking Trainer training increasing outreach, recruitment 3. Train Tutor Trainers Statistics and reporting - keeping better records Distance tutoring via webcam and skype Program development Public awareness Student-tutor support marketing

Question 4: Priorities – Literacy Volunteers of Quebec LVQ’s top three priorities for 2009-2010 answered question

7

skipped question

3

1. Member professional development support Adult Education in Quebec and the Councils

Communications sharing more with councils Professional Development Support member organizations - professional develop marketing 2. Representation with MELS Review the goals/effectiveness of Annual conference Meeting members needs training for board members Publicity professional development 3. visibility Tools for council's policies, procedures, by-law reviews Professional development Support member organizations - advice to Councils partnerships with organizations

5. Additional comments, observations: 1. Council Sharing is very important as it allows issues to emerge and people to exchange ideas and help. 2. Joani receives my suggestions via email as they occur to me - a great resource, since I can't bring them to mind now. Thanks, Joani! 3. For some of the items in the first section, I didn't mark them because I didn’t understand what they meant; depending on next Tuesday session, the curriculum reform may or may not be pertinent.