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Professional Learning Community
Louise Stoll
- pp 151-157
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In many countries, policymakers view its potential for the capacity building needed to implement educational reform, while researchers are trying to gain greater nuanced and contextualized understanding of professional learning community as mentioned in this paper.Abstract:
There is increasing consensus that the term professional learning community broadly refers to an inclusive and mutually supportive group of people with a collaborative, reflective, and growth-oriented approach toward investigating and learning more about their practice in order to improve students’ learning. In many countries, policymakers view its potential for the capacity building needed to implement educational reform, while researchers are trying to gain greater nuanced and contextualized understanding of professional learning community. This article probes the meaning and purpose of professional learning community, membership, identified characteristics, levels of impact, and process and processes of development.read more
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Examination of a Failed Professional Learning Community.
Rachel L. Sims,G. Richard Penny +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a qualitative case study design was used to gather data through 6 interviews with PLC members and 3 observations of the PLC meetings, and the results indicated that the participants perceived PLC, in its current state, as too focused on a single set of metrics and lacking the time, collaboration, and support needed to be effective.
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Teachers as learners – with a little help from a critical friend
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore crucial factors during the process of critical friendship that could be related to a professional learning community (PLC) and find that the role of critical friend was hard to internalize and that most of the teachers did not use it to its full potential for learning.
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Developing Teachers' Health-Related Fitness Knowledge through a Community of Practice: Impact on Student Learning.
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of a community of practice (CoP) on physical educators' and their students' health-related fitness content knowledge were examined, and the results showed that the effect of a CoP on physical education content knowledge and students' knowledge of health related fitness content was examined.
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Opening the Classroom Door: Professional Learning Communities in the Math and Science Partnership Program.
James E. Hamos,Kathleen B. Bergin,Daniel P. Maki,Lance C. Perez,Joan T. Prival,Daphne Y. Rainey,Ginger H. Rowell,Elizabeth VanderPutten +7 more
TL;DR: The professional learning community (PLC) has become an operational approach for professional development with potential to de-isolate the teaching experience in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
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Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity
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Professional Learning Communities: A Review of the Literature
TL;DR: The capacity is a complex blend of motivation, skill, positive learning, organizational conditions and culture, and infrastructure of support as mentioned in this paper, which gives individuals, groups, whole school communities and school systems the power to get involved in and sustain learning over time.
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The persistence of privacy: autonomy and initiative in teachers professional relationships.
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Professional Communities and the Work of High School Teaching
TL;DR: This paper found that departmental cultures play a crucial role in classroom settings and expectations, and that social studies teachers described their students as "apathetic and unwilling to work" while English teachers described the same students as bright, interesting, and energetic.