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1. Attached is a powerpoint created by business teacher, Jamie Taylor of Thedford, NE . It is a variation on other power point presentations with corporations and stock symbols. The idea is to write on tongue depressors the name of a corporation and then click on the matching stock symbol on the power point. The hyperlinked program then opens up a question, which is unrelated to the corporation. (This is merely a way to get to the questions that match the needs of a business teacher.)
2. This is the time of year when schools set goals. What should the real goal be? It should be to outperform prior years. The students all understand this as a reasonable goal. Attached is a photo from Centennial Elementary School last year. The lines are the total math questions correct for the whole school on LtoJ quizzes each week of the school year. The blue line is the best week the prior year. The goal is for this year's student body to outperform last year's students. You can see they accomplished this six times.
3.The blank student graphs on my website, www.LtoJConsulting.com have been updated. All run charts are now lined up better.
4. An elementary student told me why the scatter diagram is so valuable. He said that when you have a bad week, put your dot on the scatter diagram and then notice that other students placed their dot the same place, you don’t feel so badly.
5. Attached are item analysis photos from Codi Hrouda’s 4th grade in Columbus, NE. After the corrected spelling quizzes are returned to students, one is directed to write down correctly all words misspelled. The paper is then passed onto the next student who adds new missed words and places tally marks by the same words. It takes about ten minutes for the paper to be passed around the classroom and then a couple students create the graph. This occurs while students have other assignments; they are not sitting and waiting for the paper to arrive at their desk. All graphs for 24 items are on the LtoJ website.
6. The attached Pareto Chart displays errors from the PSAT in the Westfield Washington, Indiana School Corporation. I have used commercial programs in the past to create the Pareto Chart, but this is one made with the basic Excel graph package. If interested in the steps, write me at Lee@LtoJConsulting.com
7. The Japanese term kaizen means “improvement,” literally change + good...The interesting thing about kaizen is that big, sudden improvements are not necessary. Instead, what is important is that you’re always looking for ideas – even the smallest ideas – that you can build upon. Tiny improvements are OK as over the long term they add up to great improvements. Each journey begins with a single step. Simple, doable changes may not seem like much at the time, but they add up. PresentationZen Design by Garr Reynolds, New Riders Publications, Berkeley, CA, 2010, p234.
Lee Jenkins
Lee@LtoJConsulting.com
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