Hi. My name is Ashley, and today's lesson is titled PDSA in personalized learning environments. In today's lesson, we will look at the PDSA cycle of the inquiry process, and how PDSA can be used when meeting immediate need or for continuous improvement. We will also complete a PDSA template.
What is the PDSA cycle of the inquiry process? PDSA is an improvement plan that helps you organize and manage change you want to see. It was developed in the 1920s by Dr. Walter Shewhart, and later fused into business practices in Japan and in the US by W. Edwards Deming. The strategy helps determine and meet goals for groups.
PDSA can be used in two ways. It can be used to target areas that need the most attention immediately. First, plan. Determine where improvement is needed. Then put the improvement plan in place. Do what is needed in order to begin seeing improvements. Next, do some studying. Decide if your plan is actually working. Lastly, act on it. Decide if the data supports your improvement. If not, make some changes.
PDSA can also be used for continuous improvement for large groups, such as your class or individual students. First, have your students set goals for themselves. Let them plan out objectives they want to work towards. And we also want our students to limit their goals as well. There might be a lot of things that they're trying to work towards, but too many goals at one time can be overwhelming.
Then have your students participate in the activities. Let them do the work that is needed in order to meet their goal. Next, have students track their progress and study the data that they have received. Lastly, students will act on if they will make changes if the data does not support their goals that they're trying to achieve.
Here's a template for PDSA. Notice, we have a section for the Plan, Do, Study, and Act. In the Plan section, here's where you would think about the goals that you want to meet. What are you trying to target?
In the Do section, you must do in order to meet your goals. What actions must you take? In the Study section, here's where you are tracking your data and studying your data to see if it supports achievement of your goals. This is where you'll decide if you're getting closer to your goal or not.
And the last section, Act. After reviewing your data, what changes do you need to make? What decisions need to be made in order for you to get back on track to meet your goal?
So let's see how we would complete this template based off the prefix and suffix lesson that I previously created. In the Plan category, here's where I would write my goals. So my goal for the lesson, or the goal that I want the students to be able to complete, is understanding prefixes and suffixes and how they can be used.
In the Do section, here's where I'm going to list the activities of what they will do in order to meet the goal. Next, after each activity the students will be scored. They will know how many answers they got correct. So this is where the data will be, and an average of each assignment will be included.
Lastly, in the Act section is where we will decide after looking at our data what changes do we need to make? Do we need to change our plan? Or do we need to look more at the Do section and add more activities or different types of activities?
Let's recap what we talked about today in this lesson. PDSA is a cycle that is used for the inquiry process. It stands for Plan, Do, Study, and Act. It can be used in two ways-- to meet immediate need or for continuous improvement. It can be used for a whole class or for individual students. We also looked at how you can complete a PDSA.
As we bring the lesson to a close, think about how PDSA relates back to personalized learning. Especially if you allow students to use this independently, students are able to be flexible with their PDSA. They can go and look at it to receive data, to go back and look at their goals. This gives responsibility to the student and allows them to own their education.
This also helps redefine the teacher role by allowing the teacher to be a facilitator. It's related to competency-based progression, where students have to make a goal and achieve their goals before advancing to other goals. Using a PDSA is also involved with project-based learning, and that students can use this tool in order to come up with solutions and ideas for their project-based learning activity.
Consider the following question. How can you use PDSA to help meet the individual needs of your students? To dive a little deeper and learn how to apply this information, be sure to check out the additional resources section associated with this video. This is where you'll find links targeted toward helping you discover more ways to apply this course material.
Overview
(00:00 - 00:11) Introduction
(00:12 - 00:28) What Will You Learn Today?
(00:29 - 00:57) What is the PDSA Cycle of the Inquiry Process?
(00:58 - 02:13) How Can PDSA be Used?
(02:14 - 04:05) How Do You Complete a PDSA?
(04:06 - 04:33) What Did You Learn Today?
(04:34 - 05:45) Reflection
Montgomery County Public Schools: 10 Basic Quality Tools for the Classroom
Scroll down to using the Plan, Do, Study, Act cycle in the classroom. This link will provide you with an overview of the PDSA cycle of improvement, why you should apply this cycle in your classroom, and how it informs continuous improvement. In addition, the site includes images from application of the cycle with students in classrooms.
http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/info/baldrige/staff/qualitytools.shtm
Challenges and Solutions in Creating a Learner Improvement Cycle for Personalized Mastery
This article addresses four challenges inherent in implementing learner improvement cycles in the classroom. In addition to an overview of the challenges, the article offers practical solutions for classroom design geared toward continuous learner improvement.
http://www.competencyworks.org/how-to/challenges-and-solutions-in-creating-a-learner-improvement-cycle-for-personalized-mastery/