Professional Learning Community
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...Mostly, it is used to describe any combination of individuals with an interest in education (DuFour, 2004, cited in Cranston, 2007), sharing a set of common ideas and ideals (Sergiovanni, 1994)....
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...Many scholars have criticized the broad spectrum of the concept (eg, DuFour, 2004 ; Furman-Brown, 1999 ; Toole & Louis, 2002 ; Westheimer, 1999 ), as well as the weak elaboration of the “community” notion as one of its basic underlying constructs....
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...Many scholars have criticized the broad spectrum of the concept (e.g., DuFour, 2004; Furman-Brown, 1999; Toole & Louis, 2002; Westheimer, 1999), as well as the weak elaboration of the ‘‘community’’ notion as one of its basic underlying constructs....
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...Third, there is substantial variation in definitions and practices of teacher learning teams or communities in the literature (Dufour, 2004; Vescio et al., 2008)....
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...The sources of effective functioning defined by Bandura are inherent in current teacher professional learning community models (Dufour, 2005)....
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...Even school districts that devote tremendous time and energy to designing the intended curriculum often pay little attention to the implemented curriculum (what teachers actually teach) and even less to the attained curriculum (what students learn) (Marzano, 2003)....
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