Professional Learning Communities - Welcome to Green River 专业学习社区-欢迎来到绿河.ppt

Professional Learning Communities A Framework to Focus on Student Learning by Turning Up the H.E.A.T. No Teacher (or Team Leader) is an Island Educators must stop working in isolation and hoarding their ideas, materials, and strategies and begin to work together to meet the needs of all students –(DaFour, 2004) We are a Professional Learning Community (PLC) that will go back to our schools and lead other PLCs. What is a Professional Learning Community? ????? ????? ????? ????? ????? ????? ????? What are the norms you have taken back to your Professional Learning Community? ????? ????? ????? ????? ????? ????? ????? What is a “Big Ideas” of a Professional Learning Community? Ensuring that Students Learn A Culture of Collaboration A Focus on Results Ensuring that Students Learn “core mission” of education is to ensure students are learning and not just taught “learning for all” – taken literally it can be a pledge to ensure the success of each student Multiple questions will come about… Ensuring that Students Learn What practices and characteristics have been most successful at helping students achieve at high levels at other schools? How can we adopt those successful practices and characteristics to fit the needs of our school? What commitments do we have to make to each other? What are the indicators we could monitor to assess the progress? Ensuring that Students Learn What will drive the work of the PLCs? What do we want the student to learn? How will we know when each student has learned it? How will we respond when a student experiences difficulty in learning?*** *** - what separates PLCs from other committees Ensuring that Students Learn PLCs response to students having difficulty learning is: Timely – quickly identify students who need additional time and support Based on intervention rather than remediation Directive – systematic plan requires students devote extra time and receive extra help to master the necessary concepts A Culture of Collaboration Teache