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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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Title Effects of Professional Community on Lesson Improvement of a teacher : A Multilevel Modeling
TL;DR: Wahlstrom et al. as mentioned in this paper used multilevel modeling to determine the effects of professional community on lesson improvement of a teacher in school organizations, and found that if the improvement is left to the individual teacher's discretion, the disparity in the quality of teaching within a school would increase.
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The Motivating Affordances of Research-Practice Partnerships for Examining Equity-based Social and Emotional Learning Instruction
Gina McGovern,Colin Ackerman,Deborah Rivas-Drake,Alexandra Skoog-Hoffman,Enid M. Rosario-Ramos,Robert J. Jagers +5 more
TL;DR: The School and Community Pathways for Engagement (SCoPE) Project as discussed by the authors brought together teams from a large, urban school district in the Midwestern United States, the University of Michigan, and the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) in a research-practice partnership (RPP) to examine these pertinent challenges.
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Chapter 5. Discursive construction of collective identity in a global online community of practice of English language teachers
TL;DR: This article explored how members of Webheads in Action, an online community of practice of English language teachers, construct a collective identity of "webhead-ness" discursively, how certain community values are realized at the linguistic level in their email communication, and how the community's collective identity and values shape their professional development.
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Teachers’ Perceptions of Instructional Coaches’ Practices in Professional Learning Communities
Hamada Ahmed Elfarargy,Beverly J. Irby,Erin A. Singer,Rafael Lara-Alecio,Fuhui Tong,Elisabeth Pugliese +5 more
TL;DR: In this article , the authors investigated Texas teachers' perceptions of instructional coaches' practices that improve professional learning communities (PLCs) to enhance teachers' instructional capacities, and found that teachers perceived ICs can perform two main types of practices that contribute to enhancing PLC meetings: (a) practices for creating a safe PLC learning environment and (b) practices in PLCs for enhancing teachers’ instructional capacities.
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Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity
TL;DR: Identity in practice, modes of belonging, participation and non-participation, and learning communities: a guide to understanding identity in practice.
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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.
TL;DR: This paper examined formas destacadas de colegialidad and analiza sus perspectivas de alterar las condiciones fundamentales de privacidad in la ensenanza.
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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.