This is perhaps one of my favorite resources, extremely practical and with just a few pages and you can dramatically transform your classroom, even your school and District! This PDF is loaded with tips and ideas to be more engaging with students too.
Steps in the PDSA Cycle
- Step 1: Plan. Plan the test or observation, including a plan for collecting data. …
- Step 2: Do. Try out the test on a small scale. …
- Step 3: Study. Set aside time to analyze the data and study the results. …
- Step 4: Act. Refine the change, based on what was learned from the test.
(Introduced by Walter Shewart in the 1920’s)
This is an often used in successful business and corporations and schools as a process to help improve the quality of customer care and school success. Improving quality is about making anything from healthcare safer, a company more efficient, a sports team more competitive while all more timely, effective and equitable. In education, it is a plan outline for ensuring that teachers, schools and programs are constantly being improved upon.
“Building the Steps of Continuous Improvement” from “SCHOOL DISTRICT OF MENOMONEE FALLS.”
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