I've made quite a few observations now and I feel that I understand the process of what needs to be done to complete many of the procedures on different modalities. I've learned a lot more about Radiology than I would!
Yesterday I used a Continuous Flow Model. I looked at all the data from January to May, how many days and how long the Radiology Department is open to decide what the tact time for departments were. It was a lot more difficult than I thought to get "accurate data". They always have someone scheduled to do CT and MRI Scans anytime throughout the day (although there aren't many past 5p.m. or before 7 a.m. or on the weekends). Other departments in Radiology have the techs on call too. So I decided to throw the weekends (+ a few holidays) out of the equation. For the most part the time that the equation calculated for how long it would take for how long the procedure would take matched up with what I observed.
I knew that it couldn't match up to be exactly accurate since Allen has a lot of out patients, so Allen's Radiologists don't always have someone waiting for a scan or x-ray immediately after they are finished. There are also a lot of times that there are 2 or more radiologists at one machine. It takes a long time to go through the scans sometimes and so one of the radiologists' is able to move onto the next patient before the first radiologist is fully completed with their patient. That is something I would not have known about had I not gone through observations, which was a good reason for actually going out and doing that.
Week 3: What are some of the connections you see between your externship and math or science essential concepts and skills? 21st Century Skills? Five Characteristics of Effective Instruction? Eight Standards for Mathematical Practice?
I have learned a lot more about Excel while at Allen. I've always been okay at Excel, still not great, but I am getting better. Denise uses Excel a lot at her job, which makes me realize that I should probably use Excel in my classroom more than I currently do. It is important for them to be able to have the basic Excel skills mastered by the time they graduate from high school.
I do have my students actually find their own data when they are working on a project. Which I think ties into what I am doing a lot at Allen. Last year I had my students fly paper airplanes and then decide which one was the best. Since all the students were there they knew which data should be taken out. Similar to how I took out weekends when I looked at the Allen data they needed to take out anything that wasn't paper (the Gatorade bottle went a lot further!) It took us a lot longer to get our data since we actually found it on our own. I was debating whether I was going to change the project to something where we aren't doing observations for so long, but now I think it is a good experience for them. There was no right or wrong answer, so the students really had to think to back up their choice in their paper. I had them fly their plane inside, outside up-hill, outside down-hill and had them look at distance traveled, speed, and time in the air. So they had to decide which information they thought was useful and then back up their answer.
Everyday I notice that almost everyone at Allen is always very friendly. People I don't know will make small talk in the elevator, say good morning in the hall. I do try to do this when I am at school also, but now I am more aware of how happy it makes me feel when someone says hello to me that I am going to try even harder next year to make sure to great the students so that they will do the same which will hopefully help them become more employable since they are friendly and companies want to have a good environment.
Yesterday I used a Continuous Flow Model. I looked at all the data from January to May, how many days and how long the Radiology Department is open to decide what the tact time for departments were. It was a lot more difficult than I thought to get "accurate data". They always have someone scheduled to do CT and MRI Scans anytime throughout the day (although there aren't many past 5p.m. or before 7 a.m. or on the weekends). Other departments in Radiology have the techs on call too. So I decided to throw the weekends (+ a few holidays) out of the equation. For the most part the time that the equation calculated for how long it would take for how long the procedure would take matched up with what I observed.
I knew that it couldn't match up to be exactly accurate since Allen has a lot of out patients, so Allen's Radiologists don't always have someone waiting for a scan or x-ray immediately after they are finished. There are also a lot of times that there are 2 or more radiologists at one machine. It takes a long time to go through the scans sometimes and so one of the radiologists' is able to move onto the next patient before the first radiologist is fully completed with their patient. That is something I would not have known about had I not gone through observations, which was a good reason for actually going out and doing that.
Week 3: What are some of the connections you see between your externship and math or science essential concepts and skills? 21st Century Skills? Five Characteristics of Effective Instruction? Eight Standards for Mathematical Practice?
I have learned a lot more about Excel while at Allen. I've always been okay at Excel, still not great, but I am getting better. Denise uses Excel a lot at her job, which makes me realize that I should probably use Excel in my classroom more than I currently do. It is important for them to be able to have the basic Excel skills mastered by the time they graduate from high school.
I do have my students actually find their own data when they are working on a project. Which I think ties into what I am doing a lot at Allen. Last year I had my students fly paper airplanes and then decide which one was the best. Since all the students were there they knew which data should be taken out. Similar to how I took out weekends when I looked at the Allen data they needed to take out anything that wasn't paper (the Gatorade bottle went a lot further!) It took us a lot longer to get our data since we actually found it on our own. I was debating whether I was going to change the project to something where we aren't doing observations for so long, but now I think it is a good experience for them. There was no right or wrong answer, so the students really had to think to back up their choice in their paper. I had them fly their plane inside, outside up-hill, outside down-hill and had them look at distance traveled, speed, and time in the air. So they had to decide which information they thought was useful and then back up their answer.
Everyday I notice that almost everyone at Allen is always very friendly. People I don't know will make small talk in the elevator, say good morning in the hall. I do try to do this when I am at school also, but now I am more aware of how happy it makes me feel when someone says hello to me that I am going to try even harder next year to make sure to great the students so that they will do the same which will hopefully help them become more employable since they are friendly and companies want to have a good environment.
I sat in on a meeting with Denise today. She was explaining some data she had been working with. I noticed that the people there asked a lot of questions.
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