Teaching · For Tutors

Start from what the family wants, in their words.

Go through the questionnaire with the parent: how things are now, the goals and their order, what success looks like at home and how you will keep in touch. The summary ranks the goals and shows which ones you could both see happen.

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The questionnaire

One record per family and conversation. Use the student’s initials or a code, never a name. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · For Tutors$12 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
For each family, the goals in priority order with time frames, the concerns behind them, how many goals can be measured, and points to agree before the first session.
Who it is for
Tutors and tutoring businesses starting with a new family; parents can fill it in ahead and bring the printout.
Format
Browser form used in the first conversation with a parent, or printed blank for them to fill in. Several saved records per family to revisit goals each term; CSV; export and import a file.
Access
$12 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Tutoring business kit ($69) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The For Tutors space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
321what the family wants, in order
Drawn for this page. Start from the family’s goals at home, then agree the order and what you will both be able to see.

How to use it

  1. Start a record with the student’s initials or a code and the date.
  2. Note the grade and the subjects behind the request.
  3. Ask how five parts of school life look now.
  4. Write the goals in the parent’s words and rank them.
  5. Agree measurable versions and how often you will send updates.

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What the questionnaire is for

Goals you can see

“Do better in math” is a hope; “raise the math grade from a D to a C this term” can be checked. Goals that name a behavior and a measure let the family and the tutor agree when progress is happening.

Family partnership

Research on family engagement finds the strongest effects when families and educators share specific goals and the family knows how to help at home, such as a regular place and time for work.

What this is not

This is the family’s view, not an assessment of the student. Pair it with your own baseline of the student’s skills.

Sources

  1. Henderson, A. T., and Mapp, K. L. (2002). A New Wave of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family, and Community Connections on Student Achievement. Southwest Educational Development Laboratory.
  2. Doran, G. T. (1981). There’s a S.M.A.R.T. way to write management’s goals and objectives. Management Review, 70(11), 35 to 36.
  3. Locke, E. A., and Latham, G. P. (2002). Building a practically useful theory of goal setting and task motivation. American Psychologist, 57(9), 705 to 717.
  4. U.S. Department of Education (2013). Partners in Education: A Dual Capacity-Building Framework for Family-School Partnerships.

The example family and goals are made up. The questionnaire records the family’s view; it does not assess the student. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.