Book ChapterDOI
Professional Learning Community
Louise Stoll
- pp 151-157
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
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
Citations
More filters
Proceedings ArticleDOI
CS principles: development and evolution of a course and a community
TL;DR: This session reports on the conclusion of a second year of pilots that included nine high schools partnered with eight colleges and a third pilot using a new portfolio exam being conducted at six schools, on how the pilots succeeded in reaching goals of broadening participation and delivering a course that maintained fidelity to the curricular framework of the CS Principles project.
Journal ArticleDOI
Leadership in the Creative Industries: Addressing an Uncertain Future
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue for a shift in pedagogical mindset from an entirely skill-based model to a more holistic approach drawing on leadership across four areas: creativity, sustainability, vision, and community.
A Methodological Analysis of Research into the Effect of Professional Learning Community on Student Academic Achievement
TL;DR: Thacker et al. as discussed by the authors analyzed all published research articles examining the relationship between professional learning community efforts (plc) and student academic achievement (SAA) that reported primary research findings published before January 1, 2015.
Proceedings ArticleDOI
Create learning communities to enhance success for students with diverse academic preparation background
Edmund Tsang,Cynthia Halderson +1 more
TL;DR: The WMU-CEAS program to improve student success and retention includes a faculty learning community and revision of several first-year science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses as discussed by the authors.
References
More filters
Book
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.
Journal ArticleDOI
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.
Journal Article
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.
Book
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.