Name
Offered by
Duration
Skill Focus
Lean Process Improvement: Delivering More with Less
American Management Association
Two days
Lean metrics, types of waste, 5S, Poka-Yoke, Kanban, Kaizen, and DMAIC
ASQ Lean Training
American Society for Quality
Varies
All core Lean skills
Lean Kaizen: A Simplified Approach to Process Improvement
American Society for Quality
Eight hours
Kaizen methodology
Kaizen Training and Certification
Kaizen Institute
Varies
Online and classroom courses and three levels of certifications
Certified Lean Professional
SUNY Buffalo Center for Industrial Effectiveness
33.5 hours
Lean tools, including 5S, TPM, standardized work, and Kanban; option for one-on-one coaching sessions
Lean Management Certification Training
SimpliLearn
Five hours
Principles of Lean, Lean metrics, and Lean in manufacturing, service, and office contexts
Process Improvement Certificate Program
Portland State University Center for Executive and Professional Education
76 hours
Seven classes on Lean process improvement
Lean Online Review Program, Lean Review Courses, Lean Certification
Lean Certification Alliance (Association for Manufacturing Excellence, Shingo Institute, SME)
Varies
Certifications at bronze, silver, and gold levels of Lean expertise, all aimed at professionals
Lean Process Improvement Training
Professional Development Training (Australia)
Two days
Lean principles, problem solving, waste reduction, and Lean project planning
Lean Professional Programs
University of Michigan College of Engineering
Varies
Certificates in Six Sigma and Lean for healthcare, manufacturing, administration, and supply chain; Lean leadership; and Lean product development
Lean Healthcare Training
Virginia Mason Institute
Varies; advanced Lean is seven days; foundations of Lean in healthcare is three days
Lean concepts as they relate to healthcare delivery
Lean Certification Courses
Management and Strategy Institute
Varies
Certification courses in Six Sigma belts, Lean, total quality management, TPM, Kaizen, and Lean in healthcare
Lean Training and Certification
GoLeanSixSigma.com
16 hours
Lean principles and developing Lean culture
Lean Continuous Improvement
Florida Tech
Six weeks
Essential and advanced Lean tools and methods
Operations Management: Strategy and Quality Management for the Digital Age
University of Illinois via Coursera
Six hours
Process improvement, Lean Six Sigma,and analysis of variance
The Lean Practitioner Course
The Lean Six Sigma Company
Three days
Lean principles, types of waste, value stream mapping, 5S, Poka-Yoke, and flow and pull
Lean Six Sigma and Kaizen
Integris Performance Advisors
Varies
Lean Six Sigma belts, Lean continuous improvement, and custom training for companies.
Professional Development Courses, Lean Six Sigma Certifications
Creighton University Center for Professional and Corporate Excellence
Mostly one or two days
5S, continuous flow, Lean basics, value stream mapping, and root cause analysis
Lean and Process Improvement Training
EEF, The Manufacturers’ Organization
Varies
Multiple specializations, including Kaizen, 5S, Lean, and Lean Six Sigma
Lean Six Sigma Certificate
Villanova University
Varies
Lean Six Sigma
Improvement Training
Lean East
One day
Variety of courses on Lean in healthcare, Lean for leaders, and continuous improvement coaching
Lean Enterprise Academy Workshops
The Lean Enterprise Academy
Varies
All aspects of Lean and Lean techniques
Lean Enterprise Institute Education
The Lean Enterprise Institute
Varies
All aspects of Lean and Lean techniques
Continuous Process Improvement Certificate
Missouri Southern State University
Varies
Engineering technology, quality control, Lean, and Six Sigma
Continuous Improvement Training
Kaizen Consulting Group
Mostly one or two days
Kaizen, 8D, continuous improvement leadership, and root cause analysis
Lean Business Process Improvement Certificate
University of Minnesota
Varies
Process mapping, improving work processes, and implementing process change
No Cost Lean Certification Course
Veterans Transition Support
One day
Free class for U.S. military personnel, veterans, and family members
Lean Practitioner Certificate, Lean Six Sigma Training and Certification, Professional Development
Kent State University
Varies
5S, Lean Six Sigma, Kaizen, and 8D
Lean Six Sigma and Continuous Improvement Certificate
Sheridan College
Varies
Lean Six Sigma, value stream mapping, and statistical process control
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Feature: Hand in Hand for a Better World
Lessons in problem solving stimulate a varied approach to debating. In Thailand, Japanese-style instructional systems can now work on their own and help engross children in mathematics lessons.
The Japanese education system is receiving much attention. This all started in 1964 with an international math education study conducted by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA). In the 1964 study, Japan placed second in mathematics and came first in the following study. As a result, researchers from industrialized nations flocked to Japan, and various comparative studies between the systems in the United States and Japan launched in the 1980s, while the movements for standardizing the schooling curriculum thrived in the United States. In the 1990s, research on comparative math education made clear that the secret behind the scholastic achievements of Japanese students was Japanese-style education, especially the teaching of problem-solving in brainstorming sessions to stimulate alternative methods, and the lesson study (jugyo kenkyu ) that teachers were encouraged to engage in. In subsequent studies, Japan has maintained a position in the top five rankings.
Striving to improve the quality of education, teachers conduct research during daily classes by repeatedly researching instructional materials, holding classes, and reflecting on their instruction.
“We are helping others introduce a Japanese-style system of education, and we are very happy when we hear how children in countries that have actually adopted such a system look forward with enthusiasm to going to school every day,” recounts Masami Isoda, director of the University of Tsukuba’s Center for Research on International Cooperation in Educational Development (CRICED). CRICED was founded in 2002 with the objective of providing aid to foreign countries by sharing the Japanese educational model. The aspect of Japanese-style education that first caught the attention of overseas educators was its lesson study. Teachers research instructional materials together, and observe one another’s teaching during open classes. Their consultations with one another over methods of instruction help refine teaching materials and teaching methods, to provide a better hands-on model and encourage efforts for even better instruction. This approach is praised overseas as an activity to improve teacher self-education.
The 11th workshop class held at Khon Kaen University. Over 2,000 teachers gathered from throughout Thailand to participate in the event and observe classes being conducted onstage.
“In countries other than Japan, the Japanese method of teachers observing one another’s classes is often misunderstood as skill assessment. Japanese-style education involves having teachers compete with one another, strive to improve lesson study, and train children to think on their feet. This was especially important when CRICED was founded. Overseas schools that have adopted this education system provide an innovative teaching experience where mutual learning and successive fine tuning of lesson study have led to dramatic improvements in student achievements,” says Isoda. Since 2006, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), an organization working for economic development, has launched research projects on Japanese-style education with the aim of raising the quality of education. Serving as a prime mover in this project, CRICED organizes a 21-economy lesson study network in its efforts to promote lesson study. Japanese textbooks have caught the eyes of educators around the world as the result of lesson study. Especially, arithmetic and mathematics textbooks are designed to teach students mathematical concepts by having them think on their own and discuss with one another.
Director of the University of Tsukuba’s Cent er f or Research on International Cooperation in Educational Development (CRICED). Professor of the Faculty of Human Sciences. PhD in Education. Representative of the APEC lesson study project since 2006.
“In the past 15 years, we have worked to share Japanese-style education through the universal language of mathematics. CRICED currently works in partnership with associates all over the world. Through these associates we deploy lesson study, provide an innovative teaching experience and encourage efforts for even better instruction in various countries and regions. We would now like to widen this sphere to include other subjects. It is our intention to make use of Japanese-style teacher-training systems and other useful expertise,” explains Isoda. In addition to such efforts, the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology began its “EDU-Port Nippon” initiative in April 2016. The project coordinates expanding Japanese-style education overseas with public-private partnerships, works to expand musical and physical education, and explores the academic uses of ICT devices. The Japanese government plans to further increase its international contribution in the field of education in the future.
Japanese-style mathematics textbooks are translated to the English, Thai and Spanish languages. The problem solving process is presented with a variety of examples and repeated for easy learning. Pictured here is the English version (Gakko Tosho Co., Ltd.).
Example of counting. Students talk with one another and come up ideas for how to easily solve the problem by rearranging the stars as a visual aid.
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This paper presents and analyses “Mondaikaiketsu no jugyou” which translates to “the problem solving oriented – approach”. It is a set of didactic techniques with the aim of motivating the student ...
Marianne Achiam
Yukiko Asami-Johansson
math.unipa.it
Journal of Research in Mathematics Education
This paper investigates how Japanese mathematics teachers produce and share didactic knowledge together. It is a case study of a post-lesson reflection meeting so-called open lesson. The crucial idea of this study is the dialectic between the specific and generic level of foci of the participants’ reflections about the observed teaching practice; namely, about applied teacher’s specific didactic technique for achieving a specific mathematical goal, and more general pedagogical issues such as realisation of the objectives of mathematics education. This dialectic is mediated by the meso-level notion of mathematical activity, described in the guidelines for Japanese national curriculum. The application of the scale of levels of didactic co-determination, provided by the anthropological theory of the didactic into the analysis shows in what way the dialectic interplay between the teachers’ comments with focus of the specific and generic levels influences the development and establishmen...
DESCRIPTION In this paper, we examine the implementation of a Japanese teacher educators’ lesson, where he applies and, at the same time, inform the students about “structured problem solving”. We describe a specific lesson titled “Quantity and Measurement” for elementary school teacher students and we show how the educator make the students aware of the didactic transposition of the material and how he makes the students experience and learn about applying “structured problem solving” in practice. We also show how the Japanese curriculum influences the scale of the mathematical praxeology to be learned and how the students are given opportunities to develop their insight into the PCK during their education in mathematics.
Educação Matemática Pesquisa : Revista do Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Educação Matemática
International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology
The aim of this paper is to investigate and compare lessons given in primary school teacher education in Japan, Finland and Sweden. We analyse one lesson from each country and compare them using a common framework. Chevallard's anthropological theory of the didactic (ATD) is used to frame this analysis and in particular to model teacher educators' didactic organization of the lessons. The focus is on how the didactic organizations of the teacher educators relate to the mathematical and didactic organizations of primary school. Based on official documents and viewpoints of the teacher educators , we also discuss how the contents and descriptions of the national curricula, and the different traditions of the teaching practices in each country, influence the didactic organizations found in the lessons. ARTICLE HISTORY
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The KJ Ho (Method) is a creative thinking and problem solving methodology, which was originally invented by Japanese cultural anthropologist, Professor Jiro Kawakita (1920-2009). It has gone through over half a century’s development and refinement as a result of applications to many kinds of complex and unique problems in Japan. This article is an up-to-date presentation of the current state of the KJ Ho by those who have contributed to its recent developments and improvements.
Written by Professor Toshio Nomura, Professor Susumu Kunifuji, Dr Mikio Naganobu, Dr Susumu Maruyama & Professor Motoki Miura.
This research was in part supported by Nomi City.
The KJ Ho (Method) is a creative thinking and problem solving methodology, which was originally invented by Japanese cultural anthropologist, Professor Jiro Kawakita (1920-2009). It has gone through over half a century’s development and refinement as a result of applications to many kinds of complex and unique problems in Japan. This article is an up-to-date presentation of the current state of the KJ Ho by those who have contributed to its recent developments and improvements.
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. (Charles Darwin)
This article is the first presentation of the KJ Ho (Method) in English, including some detailed explanations and examples of basic steps and recent cases. The KJ Ho is the creative thinking and problem solving methodology that was originally invented by the late Professor Jiro Kawakita (1920-2009), a well-established cultural anthropologist in Japan; hence the use of his initials KJ (Figure 1 - Prof Jiro Kawakita).
In March 2011, Tohoku, Japan experienced unprecedented, natural and artificial disasters following an earthquake and tsunami, resulting in nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima 1 nuclear power station. Since then, the majority of nuclear power stations in Japan have been shut down for thorough examinations. This has led to a comprehensive rethinking of electricity supply across the country with 30% less electricity available than before. The earthquake damaged a large number of manufacturing facilities in the Tohoku area, responsible for the production of various key manufacturing components. This has resulted in the suspension of some operations in automotive manufacturing plants globally for many months. A similar incident occurred after severe flooding hit Thailand in June 2011, affecting the global electronics industry.
The rise of emerging countries has been significantly changing the international industry landscape. This trend has dramatically changed the dynamics of global industries, which continue to grow increasingly more complex. It is clear that the world is far more connected and in flux than it was a couple of decades ago and incidents like those mentioned above can have massive global consequences. As Jiro Kawakita stated over 20 years ago, ‘the complexity of our world has far outstripped any ready-made theories or hypotheses, and a priori assumptions and wishful thinking are useless’ (Kawakita, 1991). We believe that the KJ Ho is a useful tool in dealing with a world growing increasingly complex, with its diverse and flexible approach to problem solving.
The KJ Ho has gone through over half a century’s development and refinement as the result of applications to many kinds of complex and unique problems in Japan. It has a fundamental capability of tolerating exceptional circumstances, rather than excluding them. As individuals who have contributed to the KJ Ho’s past and present developments and improvements, we feel that now is an appropriate time to present the current state of the KJ Ho, correctly and concisely.
It is important to note that in this English version of the KJ Ho article, the traditional translation of ‘Ho’ to ‘Method’ has not been used, as we felt that it lacked some of the principles and mental aspects associated with ‘KJ Ho’. For this reason, we decided to maintain the original Japanese KJ 法 (KJ Ho). We hope that this naming will settle down as de facto, as many other Japanese words have, such as Judo, Kaizen, Kansei, Karaoke, Sushi, Zen, etc.
This article is based on a seminar at the Anthropology Department of University College London and a workshop at the Creativity Centre Educational Trust (CCET) in Leeds in November 2011.
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Abstract. The KJ Ho (Method) is a creative thinking and problem solving methodology, which was originally invented by Japanese cultural anthropologist, Professor Jiro Kawakita (1920-2009). It has gone through over half a century's development and refinement as a result of applications to many kinds of complex and unique problems in Japan.
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