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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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Teaching Citizens: Exploring the Relationships Between Teacher Professional Learning, Interactive Civics, and Student Achievement on NAEP Civics
TL;DR: In this article, the role of teachers in fostering students' civic knowledge and skills was examined using data from the 2010 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 8th grade civics assessment to analyze the relationships between teacher participation in professional learning, use of interactive instructional practices, and student achievement in civics.
Mentoring beginning teachers in Catholic schools in Western Australia: An exploratory study
Abstract: .................................................................................................................. 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................................... 6 LIST OF TABLES .................................................................................................................................. 10 LIST OF FIGURES ................................................................................................................................. 12 APPENDICES ............................................................................................................. 13 LIST OF ACRONYMS ............................................................................................... 14 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION ................................................................................ 15 Overview ............................................................................................................................................. 15 The Origins of Mentoring in Contemporary Education......................................................16 Beginning Teachers and Emotions ...................................................................................................... 19 CHAPTER 2: REVIEW OF LITERATURE ............................................................... 24 International literature on mentoring .................................................................................................... 24 National literature on mentoring ........................................................................................................... 26 Local literature on mentoring ............................................................................................................... 28 The difficulties associated with mentoring in the teaching profession. ................................................ 31 Mentoring and the Teaching Profession. .............................................................................................. 37 Models of Mentoring and their Possible Application for the Teaching Profession. ............................ 40 1) New Teacher Centre USA ....................................................................................................... 41 2) The Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) ............................................................................. 42 3) Learning Walks ......................................................................................................................... 43 4) Open Doors ................................................................................................................................ 44 5) Cambridge University Study: Wroxham Primary ..................................................................... 44 6) Three Examples of Mentoring from other Professions ............................................................. 45 a) Australian Rules Football (AFL) ............................................................................................... 46 b) Dental Hygienists of Ontario ..................................................................................................... 47
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School-based professional development in one Lebanese school: how much is too much?
TL;DR: A case study examines the attitudes of the secondary and middle school teachers at one school in Lebanon regarding the effect of the school's professional development (PD) programs on the quality of their teaching practices and motivation as mentioned in this paper.
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The Influence of On-site Professional Development on Teacher Practice
TL;DR: In this article, a multi-site case study of five Catholic primary schools that implemented on-site professional development (PD) for four years as part of a system response to a reform agenda was conducted within the context of a national educational reform in Australia.
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The use of NAPLAN data in Catholic schools
TL;DR: This article explored how school leaders and teachers use NAPLAN data to improve student learning outcomes, as measured by NANL performance, in selected Catholic schools in the inner western region of the Sydney Archdiocese in New South Wales (NSW).
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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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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.