Continuous Quality Improvement is a process driven cycle of investigation, implementation and evaluation. The goal of CQI strategies is to ensure the focus in the classroom is student learning and achievement. In this cycle, students develop mission statements, set goals and track individual and classroom progress. Charting results allows students to actually see how study habits and behavior have a direct connection to results and how short term achievements turn into long-term success. CQI strategies allow teachers to see which of their teaching methods work and which don't. For example, CFCE teachers have noted an additional 45 minutes of instruction time everyday. Quality makes that possible because it aligns everyone's goals so that the focus of the entire classroom becomes student learning and achievement.
Ultimately, Quality students become more responsible for their work, more motivated to learn, better creative thinkers and problem solvers and take more initiative in and out of the classroom.
In a Quality classroom, you will find:-Students working with their teacher to create mission statements that guide participation in learning throughout the year.
-Students and teachers setting academic goals and developing plans for achieving them.
-Students tracking progress towards goals in data notebooks, which leads to an understanding of how their actions shape their results. Students understand that they are responsible for achieving their goals.
-The student-data notebook is used as the vehicle for student-led parent conferences. Students are responsible for their achievement and are proud to share it with their parents. Teachers have reported a great increase in parent attendance at these conferences.)
-Classroom data is posted on the walls so that students are contributing to a winning team and are aiming to achieve all time bests.
-Students working alongside educators to improve the education process. They use quality tools such as plus/delta, force-field analysis, fishbone diagram, affinity diagram and the PDSA (Plan-Do-Study-Act) cycle to do so.
-Students are more motivated because they have greater ownership in the learning process.
-Students learning life-long skills of problem solving, creative thinking and goal setting.
-Academic performance improving.
For more information contact Michele Brinn at 864-239-3727 or Tami Miller at 864-239-3743.