Welcome and Patty's Kanban in the Classroom

[Jim Benson]

Hello everyone,

Welcome to the personal kanban community of practice. This is the
first kick-off email.

I'm very glad to see so many people come in the first few minutes.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/swimmor/3874527250/?addedcomment=1#comment72157622070247327

This link is an image of Patty's first classroom based personal
kanban. Basically, she's setting up a personal kanban for each child,
so they can follow their own achievements and work flow. I really like
where she's going with it. Perhaps it's a good place for us to start
discussion.

Before I make any comments though (other than those I already left on
the pic), I'd like Patty to tell us how she envisioned it being used.

Jim

[Nancy White]

Hiya Jim, Patty and all. This is great. As we start to explore Patty's cf classroom implementation, I'd be very intereted in VERY SIMPLE options for online groups to do this as well. Literally, some sort of electronic post its. This is because I believe people RELATE to the kinesthetic experience of writing, placing and moving the notes and I wonder if that matters as well online!

Thanks

Nancy

[Patty Beidleman]

Jim,

Throughout the year we test each student on a wide variety of tasks,
two of them being how well they know the alphabet and their numbers.
District requirements that we follow would like each child to know all
26 letters (uppercase) and be able to count/recognize numbers 1-10.
Keeping this in mind I wanted to implement a Personal Kanban board for
both the alphabet and the numbers that would let each student
visualize their progression and their accomplishments. One of the
biggest rewards in a preschool classroom is a child who can complete a
task and one that has more than two stages to it is huge for most
preschoolers.
My hope is two fold: I hope that when we test this year after using
this kanban practice in the classroom that the percentage of the
students who know 20-26 letters & recognize the numbers 1-10 will
increase. I also hope that by the students seeing their work in
action/progress and the final result of completing the tasks (with a
reward of the award sticker) that they will be even that much more
excited to learn.

When I get back to my computer I will look at the comments on my
flickr and address those for you.

Patty

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