First project

Our group: Ellen, Ashly, Agerim & Vera(me)

Problem: Freshman no interactions with seniors 

Statement: Freshman grade in our school should feel comfortable , NOT scared

PDSA

Plan: 

• Brain storming

1. Buddy system
2. Motivation
3. Team games, NOT class games
4. Team game pep assembly

• Code of cooperation

1. Listen
2. Say every idea
3. Respect
4. Stay open minded
5. Follow procedure

Do: 

Survey #1 (all) (in a pie chart)

 "How do you feel about other grades?"

• comfortable / really good
• they scare me
• Okay
• Dislike strongly
• Not sure

Survey #2 (seniors & juniors) (in a pie chart)

"How did you feel when you were a freshman?"

• scared
• comfortable
• okay
• awful
• I don't remember

Survey #3 (sophomores) ( in a pie chart)

" Compared to the last year, this year I feel more _______."

• comfortable 
• scared 
• same

Survey #4 (teachers) (in a bar charts)

1. "How do you feel the grade level interaction?"
2. "What do you want to see changed?"

Study: 

According to survey #1:

• comfortable / really good - 58.8%
• scared - 9.2%
• dislike strongly - 13.4%
• not sure - 18.5%

According to survey #2:

• scared - 10.6%
• comfortable - 34%
• okay - 38.3%
• I don't remember -14.9%

According to survey #3:

• more comfortable - 53.8%
• more scared - 3.8%
• same - 42.3%

     According to the teachers survey, the interaction between upper and lower grades is NOT good and it DOES need to be changed.

     So, this problem does take place in our school

                                        WHY?

Seniors and juniors are "too cool"

                                        WHY?

They want to look more experienced

                                        WHY? 

They've already done it

                                        WHY?

Age Factors

                                        WHY?

Ride and revenge

There are several things that we could do better:

If we had less choices in surveys - then people would think more - then we would have less approximate results - then we would understand the problem better

Act: This problem DOES take place, but it's not really sharp. There was another sharp problem about special education students, so we decided to give an effort of actions to that problem.

Project organizers or things that will help you to succeed with your plan

Well, at about three weeks ago we've learnt how to organize and to succeed with your project. It was before our first project started. So, talking about these projects and our success and fails, I'd like to list our "organize-helpers" to avoid misunderstandings in future.

• PDSA model

P stands  for  "plan",  which means that you have to plan all your actions ( surveys, information that you'll need, possible outcomes, inputs) FIRST
D stands for  "do" , exactly it means: do everything you planed before  
S stands for  "study", study all the outcomes of things that you did before , study all the materials that can help you
A stands for "act" , according to the results which you've got in the "study" section, act to abolish your problem

• SYSTEM ANALYSIS

The whole system is supported by several small, but very important things: input makes the difference between "good" and "perfect", the more you put into your system, the better result you will get; methods show you which of them will make the system work; materials you'll need to know about your system;  needs are things that you'll need , without  them the whole system stops working; outputs depend on the outcomes, they show what degree of effort  you'll need to make your system work perfectly; environment  is really important, because each system needs its own environment; people they are exactly the thing that can be called the brain of the system, people plan everything to make the system work; machines help the process, they make it more easy.

• IF - THEN model

This model is really important for "study" section (PDSA), I mean, when you have a result you can say "IF that was done in another way , THEN the result would be better". What is more this model has a curve illustration, so you can create your first "IF", to get your first "THEN" and to continue working this way to study all the fails of your "plan"&"do" sections. This does help to get a better result in actions.

• 5 WHYS

This "organize-helper" can be really useful in two sections: "plan" & "study". First, when you plan your project you ask "why does this happen?" then you answer " because..." after this you ask another "why" to your reply and it happens 5 times. So it helps to see the problem globally  and to find the way to abolish it. Second, for your "study" section  you can take your "do" fails and ask "why did it happen?", so you'll get a better result in your actions.