Voice of the Customer: Continuous Improvement Makes Me Work Harder
The "Voice of the Customer" continues as five 5th grade students from Mountain View, California share their reflections of continuous improvement in their classroom. One student shares- "CI is such great process to have in our classes. It has made me work harder." Read their reflections below!
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CI is such a great process to have in our classes. It has made me work harder. We have goals we have to reach. Doing the graphs has also made sure I stayed focused on what I’m supposed to do. Plus/Delta charts have also given us students the ability to have a chance to speak up about what we find interesting and what we want to change about what we’re learning. Class this year is very different because last year, they just showed us what we’re learning not even giving us a chance to ask the steps or more simpler and fun way of doing so.
What I really enjoy is writing in our journals to our teacher asking questions what we learned and what we don’t understand. I would recommend many teachers to use this great method in their classes. Many of those around me have grown, learned and experienced so much with the help of continuous improvement. I’ve noticed when school started everyone hated math, but now I hear, “I wonder what our teacher has planned today?” Every Monday we’d rush to our data center excited to see what grade they had this week. I’ve grown so much. Each day I’d get home too excited to tell them what I learned. I believe continuous improvement is a great method, and I hope many more districts agree to have this in their classes.
-5th Grade Student; Mountain View, California
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I think the charts helped me most since last year I didn’t know how I and my class were doing and now this year the charts have showed many us have improved and how many of us need more help. I think continuous improvement is great because you know that everybody is doing it with you. I think that other teachers should do continuous improvement because it will let others know that the teacher cares for the kids.
-5th Grade Student; Mountain View, California
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The best part of CI is that it tracks progress and tells us what we have to work on. I recommend it to teachers because it’s easy to do and helpful for the teachers and kids.
-5th Grade Student; Mountain View, California
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Math this year has been a lot better because with continuous improvement the plus delta we get to share our feelings of what is happening in class and because of the goals in our grades. I think that it encourages us to work our best.
-5th Grade Student; Mountain View, California
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I would describe CI as a funner way to learn and the goals make us want to reach it more and I think it is a good idea to show our grades on something. CI has changed me as a student by doing journal entries. It has never done this in the previous years. The journals have helped me memorized more math in ways and how to use different tools.
I enjoy doing the journal entries in CI because it is fun for me to see if I reach my goal. I recommend CI to teachers to join CI because in my opinion kids will enjoy doing it.
-5th Grade Student; Mountain View, California
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What do your students say about their experiences with continuous improvement in your classroom or school? Post a comment today!
-Jay
