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Professional learning communities tend serve to two broad purposes: (1) improving the skills and knowledge of educators through collaborative study, expertise exchange, and professional dialogue, and (2) improving the educational aspirations, achievement, and attainment of students through stronger leadership and …
As you delve deeply into the three big ideas of a PLC – a focus on learning, a focus on collaboration and a focus on results – you will gain specific, practical and inspiring strategies for intervention for transforming your school or region into a place where all students learn at high levels.
As a result of extensive research, they cited five elements of a professional community: (1) reflective dialogue, (2) focus on student learning, (3) interaction among Page 7 teacher colleagues, (4) collaboration, and (5) shared values and norms.
Research shows that PLCs enhance teacher quality in various ways: – They help bridging the gap between education theory, policy and practice, creating spaces for addressing practical issues and connecting pedagogical practice with subject content knowledge.
The professional learning community (PLC) model gives schools a framework to build teacher capacity to work as members of high-performing, collaborative teams that focus on improving student learning. … Teachers work together to identify at-risk students, and teams problem-solve to intervene for each student.
What’s a PLC? Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) are groups of educators who meet regularly to share expertise, analyzes student work, plan instruction and collaborate to improve teaching skills and the academic performance of students.
When, How Long, and How Often
PLCs that are too small or too large suffer from a deficit or excess of varying perspectives (see Establishing PLC Teams, Chapter 2). For teachers to adequately benefit from being in a PLC, I recommend teams meet at least weekly, for at least an hour each time.
What are PLC’s? PLC is the acronym for Professional Learning Communities. Our staff is expected to meet in PLC’s to write and revise curriculum, build common assessments and examine student data. All of this is done to improve the quality of teaching and learning and increase student achievement.
The PLC concept is often misconstrued as simply holding more staff meetings. But it’s much more than that. It’s a process that’s focused on three major components: learning, collaboration, and results. The first component of learning versus merely teaching is crucial, especially for school principals.
Characteristics of professional learning communities include supportive and shared leadership, shared values and vision, collective learning and application of learning, supportive conditions, and shared practice (Hord, 2004).
Examples of Professional Learning Communities include a group of teachers engaging one another for the purpose of creating a more consistent curriculum, a group of computer instructors collaborating and discussing which software applications to purchase and a team of administrators coming together to support one …
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lower rates of absenteeism. increased learning that is distributed more equitably in the smaller high schools. larger academic gains in math, science, history, and reading than in traditional schools. smaller achievement gaps between students from different backgrounds.
Research indicates that a high level of teacher collaboration significantly improves student achievement. PLCs that examine student work and analyze student data more frequently are likely to have higher levels of teacher morale. …
According to a recent policy brief from the National Education Association (NEA), “when schools, parents, families, and communities work together to support learning, students tend to earn higher grades, attend school more regularly, stay in school longer, and enroll in higher level programs”.
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The potential of PLCs is well documented—for example, in a recent survey of Hopkins, MN educators, 81 percent said they agreed that PLCs helped them find the most effective instructional strategies. The problem is that implementation is often easier said than done.
Why Should Schools Support PLCs? PLCs help to increase the capacity of the school to achieve sustainable improvement in the learning that takes place in the school. They fulfil a need for more professional development to become more authentic, timely and relevant.
Educators in a PLC benefit from clarity regarding their shared purpose, a common understanding of the school they are trying to create, collective communities to help move the school in the desired direction, and specific, measurable, attainable, results-oriented, and time- bound (SMART) goals to mark their progress.