PLC+: Better Decisions and Greater Impact by Design

Autor/inn/en	Fisher, Douglas; Frey, Nancy; Almarode, John; Flories, Karen; Nagel, Dave
Titel	PLC+: Better Decisions and Greater Impact by Design
Quelle	(2019), (216 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	978-1-5443-6179-6
Schlagwörter	Communities of Practice; Teacher Collaboration; Educational Improvement; Equal Education; Teacher Expectations of Students; Teacher Effectiveness; Teamwork; Self Efficacy; Expertise + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Community; Lehrerkooperation; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Effectiveness of teaching; Instructional effectiveness; Lehrerleistung; Unterrichtserfolg; Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Expert appraisal
Abstract	What makes a powerful and results-driven Professional Learning Community (PLC)? The answer is collaborative work that expands the emphasis on student learning and leverages individual teacher efficacy into collective teacher efficacy. "PLC+: Better Decisions and Greater Impact by Design" calls for strong and effective PLCs "plus"--and that plus is YOU. Until now, the PLC movement has been focused almost exclusively on students and what they were or were not learning. But keeping student learning at the forefront requires that we also recognize the vital role that you play in the equation of teaching and learning. This means that PLCs must take on two additional challenges: maximizing your individual expertise, while harnessing the power of the collaborative expertise you can develop with your peers. PLC+ is grounded in four cross-cutting themes--a focus on equity of access and opportunity, high expectations for all students, a commitment to building individual self-efficacy and the collective efficacy of the professional learning community and effective team activation and facilitation to move from discussion to action. The PLC+ framework supports educators in considering five essential questions as they work together to improve student learning: (1) Where are we going? (2) Where are we now? (3) How do we move learning forward? (4) What did we learn today? (5) Who benefited and who did not benefit? The PLC+ framework leads educators to question practices as well as outcomes. It broadens the focus on student learning to encompass educational equity and teaching efficacy, and, in doing so, it leads educators to plan and implement learning communities that maximize individual expertise while harnessing the power of collaborative efficacy. [To view the accompany resource, "The PLC+ Playbook, Grades K-12: A Hands-On Guide to Collectively Improving Student Learning," see ED597930.] (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01