Improving Student Learning: Applying Deming's Quality Principles in Classrooms

by Lee Jenkins

Since 1996, Lee Jenkins' Improving Student Learning has led the way in teaching educators how to improve performance through the use of quality principles. Now Jenkins has updated his best-seller, adding more examples and simplifying the content to make it easier for anyone to implement the concepts. Teachers and administrators alike will find the information in this book invaluable, as they use the concepts to improve performance and productivity in their schools. Through his previous work as a school administrator and his current role as a consultant, Jenkins has seen first hand what it takes to make these techniques work in schools. The second edition draws from his experience with many more examples for every level, from pre-school through graduate school, covering a wide variety of subjects. Teachers will find many examples of how other teachers have successfully used these concepts in their classrooms, and administrators will see how school-wide and district-wide implementations are being conducted. Improving Student Applying Deming's Quality Principles in Classrooms, Second Edition answers the critical question of how to measure improvement and gives very direct and important information about what to measure. Jenkins describes the significant influences Deming's profound knowledge can have on education.

250 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

Lee Jenkins is a psychoanalyst in private practice and a professor emeritus at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY.

He received his PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University and his psychoanalytic training at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP).

He is currently a supervisor and training analyst at NPAP and other psychoanalytic institutes. He has written on literature, psychology and race relations and is a published poet.

Reviews

[Marsha · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really liked this systematic way of improving students learning. I wish I could implement it next year but I'm worried that since it will be my first year in that grade level, I don't have the expertise. Should I be able to stay in the same course for two years in a row, I'll definitely do this next year.

[Marti · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an educational book for educators. It is about using the best practices.