Thursday, January 17, 2013

Implementing and Improving Education Plans (Part 2)

Education Plan Improvement

Author: Manuel R. CortezRodas


When an education plan is implemented it becomes active.  An education plan that becomes active should allow an educator to take a thought, idea, standard, or concept, and be able to successfully instruct students.  Education plans are a good and useful tool for educators to create.  When an education plan is implemented, it can be good and successful, bad and unsuccessful, or somewhere in between. Three steps to take when improving an education plan are making observations, collecting data, and analyzing the plan.

Observations
We gather information while making observations.  Many of the observations that we gather can be auditory, visual, or tactile, while others can be expressive of emotions and passions, as well as a feeling of understanding the knowledge that has been learned.  Observations are the beginning points of data collection.  Observations should be collected as data so that they may be analyzed.

Data Collection
What we educate on should be learned by the student.  The student collects the education we are instructing them on and learn from it.  We then must collect from the students what they have learned and what they have been instructed on.  There are may tools that we can use to collect data like: homework, quiz, test, project, presentation, etc.  The data we collect should be on a measurable scale, as needed for recording and storing, as well as analyzing.

Analysis
Analyze all observations and data collected, and make your own conclusions, then present them to others and seek their council.  Analyze with others and collaborate so that education plans improve.  Analysis should be done periodically, and for specified purposes.  All analysis should be measurable on a fair and balanced scale. 

Improving education plans should take place as it is been implemented.  For as long as we plan to implement the education plan, we should do our best to improve it.  Improving education plans allows educators to improve the accuracy and efficiency of the student's learning.  We can improve an education plan by making observations, collecting data, and analyzing the education plan that has been implemented.  By improving the education plan, as we are implementing it, we can have the opportunity to improve the plan and make it more efficient for the instructing of our students.

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