Leading Professional Learning

Autor/in	Fullan, Michael
Titel	Leading Professional Learning
Quelle	In: School Administrator, 63 (2006) 10, S.10 (5 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0036-6439
Schlagwörter	Faculty Development; Cooperative Learning; School Culture; School Restructuring; Educational Change; Accountability; Teacher Collaboration; Systems Approach; School Districts; Change Strategies; Instructional Leadership; Leadership Responsibility + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kooperatives Lernen; Schulkultur; Schulleben; Schulreformplan; Schulumwandlung; Bildungsreform; Verantwortung; Lehrerkooperation; Systemischer Ansatz; School district; Schulbezirk; Lösungsstrategie; Instruction; Leadership; Bildung; Erziehung; Führung
Abstract	If the goal is to fundamentally change the culture inside schools, people need to move beyond the superficiality of professional learning communities and focus on a system of learners. Professional learning communities are in fact about establishing lasting new collaborative cultures. Collaborative cultures are ones that focus on building the capacity for continuous improvement and are intended to be a new way of working and learning. In this article, the author discusses the school's transformation of cultures and its implementations. The first and obvious implication of pursuing the implementation of a deep professional learning is for leaders to declare the agenda is changing the learning culture of the school. Second, position PLCs as a whole-system change in which each and every school is implicated. Third, in addition to lateral capacity building, PLC work also means refashioning the relationship between the school and the district. Fourth, an even bigger change is at stake when school and district leaders see themselves as engaged in changing the bigger context or system. Fifth, part of the purpose of PLCs is to make schools more accountable to the public. Sixth and finally, the spread of professional learning communities is about the proliferation of leadership. Doing better things is all about cultures of professional learning. PLCs need to be seen explicitly in this light or they will go the way of just another innovation that captures the limelight ephemerally. Moreover, the author also discusses several convincing research, workplace practices, PLCs revisited, and real implications of professional learning. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10