Kaizen -
Continuous School Improvement
Kaizen - Continuous School Improvement:
Here at M.C. Perry Elementary School, we are in our second year of a five year Continuous School Improvement (CSI) plan. There are two main goals for our students and we will be introducing a variety of classroom interventions to help our school achieve these higher standards.
Goal 1:
All students will improve in balanced literacy across the curriculum.
Essence of Goal 1:
Reading and writing are reciprocal in nature; each cna be used to support learning and achievement in the other. Students will become better readers through writing by using various organizational structures, higher-order thinking skills and writing strategies. Students will become better writers by improving reading comprehension to aid in the understanding of text.
Interventions:
Shared writing - The teacher and students compose text together, with both contributing their thoughts and ideas to the process, while the teacher acts as a scribe, writing the text as it is composed..
Read aloud - The teacher reads aloud several texts each day, both fiction and nonfiction, in order to model inflection, pacing, fluency, and specific reading strategies. Read alouds are also a valuable way to help students expand their oral vocabularies and build prior knowledge of a topic.
Goal 2:
All students will improve inquiry skills across the curriculum.
Essence of Goal 2:
Inquiry is the art and science of asking and answering questions. It includes the ability to formulate a question which can be answered through observation, data analysis, research and/or experimentation to seek an answer.
Interventions:
KWL charts - Teachers activate students' prior knowledge by asking them what they already know, then students set goals specifying what they want to learn, and after reading, students discuss what they have learned. This is a form of graphic organizer.
STEPS problem solving model - Students use this strategy to solve problems across the curriculum: See the problem, Think of solutions, Elect (choose) a solution, Perform the solution, and Share the outcomes with others.
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