My 5 Why’s Root Cause AnalysisMy Problem is: With over 500 students in the school, 24 classes total, 6 different classes a day, 3-5 different preps a day, 45 minute classes and 5 minutes between classes, the biggest problem of practice for me as an elementary Art teacher is material management. Why is it the biggest problem of practice? Response 1: This problem is a wicked problem because the answers range so vastly from teacher to teacher. I would say, according to my empathy report, the main reason this is a problem is because art teachers have a very small amount of time between classes to get out, distribute, set up, clean up and take down materials and supplies. Why is it so hard to do all of that in that time? Response 2: Art teachers typically have a high amount of preps with each class doing something different from the last and the next. Also because art projects require a wide variety of materials and supplies. Why do art teachers have a high amount of preps? Response 3: Art is an elective or co-curricular so there are typically less art educators in a school compared to general education and therefore generally have multiple preps to cover a lot of different content and media within the art world (compared to, for example, an algebra 1 teacher who has the same prep all day). Why do art educators have to cover so much different content? Response 4: Most art educators want their students to have the chance to experience a vast range of art content and media, two-dimensional and three-dimensional. Why do art educators think it is important for their students to have the chance to experience different content? Response 5 (my root cause): Whether an art educator takes on more preps by choice or is simply assigned them by an administrator, most choose to use a wide range of materials and supplies in order to provide a well-rounded art curriculum to their students but feel like there is not enough time to get out, distribute, set up, clean up and take down materials and supplies. My Why-How LadderMy Point of View FrameworkMy user works full time as an Art educator at an elementary school. She/He teaches art to the entire school which has approximately 530 students at it. There are 24 different classes ranging in grades preschool through 5th grade. He/She typically has 3-6 different preps every single day. All of these preps require a significant amount of time, planning and preparation, especially of materials. There are 6 different classes every day (of all different grades) for a 45 minutes period. The Art educator has 5 minutes between every single class to make all of the necessary changes with material management and projects. Something that would make material management more manageable and less overwhelming in that short amount of time between classes would be help from another person or some other way to buy more time. My Problem StatementA position in the field of Art education requires a tremendous amount of planning preparing and managing materials. The Art room is a place for abundant and diverse hands-on two-dimensional and three-dimensional learning experiences. These learning experiences and projects entail hundreds of supplies for hundreds of students. Because of this, an Art educator must dedicate a significant amount of time to set up, distribution, clean up, take down and storage of all materials. Additionally, Art educators typically have as little as three and as many as seven plus different preps every single day. In my opinion based on my research, the single most important difficulty in managing materials and supplies is the unbelievably small amount of time between classes where an Art educator must completely switch materials from one class to another, multiple times a day. The goal is to find different ways to maximize the use of this small amount of time (or other time), in order to minimize stress and make the overwhelming task of material management way more manageable for an individual.
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