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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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Framing Innovation: Do Professional Learning Communities Influence Acceptance of Large-Scale Technology Initiatives?
TL;DR: In this article, the role of professional learning communities for district leadership implementing large-scale technology initiatives such as 1:1 implementations (one computing device for every student) is explored.
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The Experiences of Students Who Do Not Graduate with their Cohort
TL;DR: In this article, a collective case study was conducted to understand the stories of students who did not graduate with their cohort, and the participants represented two comprehensively high schools in a large suburban school district.
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Why Teachers Participate in Professional Development: Lessons from a Schoolwide Teacher Study Group
TL;DR: This paper used surveys and interviews to examine why teachers did and did not participate in one school's high-quality study group and found that participants had more social incentives and engaged more actively in friendship and advice networks, especially with other participants.
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Modeling Lifelong Learning: Collaborative Teaching across Disciplinary Lines.
TL;DR: Most courses in colleges and universities are taught by only one instructor as mentioned in this paper, which is often necessitated by the financial exigencies of educational institutions, but is also due to an academic tradition in which the ideal is a single expert teaching in a single discipline.
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Professional Development Urban Schools: What Do Teachers Say?
Tanya R. Green,Mishaleen E Allen +1 more
TL;DR: The authors compared perceptions of professional development opportunities between high achieving and low achieving elementary-middle school teachers in an urban school district using the Standards Assessment Inventory (SAI) and found that teachers in high achieving schools reported receiving professional development more aligned to the 12 National Standards Development Council (NSDC) standards for quality professional development than teachers in low achieving schools.
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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.