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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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Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity
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Professional Learning Communities: A Review of the Literature
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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.