Professional Learning Community Analysis

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A learning community creates and maintains an environment that promotes and value learning. It fosters collaboration, a commitment to the growth and development of individual members, students, staff, principals and parents. The teacher does not only face the responsibility of her students but of each other. They are responsible for learning new skills so that there can be an improvement in their students learning. The community focuses on curriculum strategies and improvement in instruction. The teacher finds new strategies and takes on a number of leadership responsibilities. The professional learning community is for student improvement and learning opportunity. It is formed for teachers to improve their teaching through collaborative …show more content…

They saw a list of challenges the traditional schools went through such as: achievement scores were consistently low or falling, students were unhappy and/or unmotivated, parents were ignored, community members were disengaged, and school staff did not believe they could affect student learning. They assisted them in undertaking a school reform. They had no intention on introducing them to a professional learning community but the actions guided them to a professional learning community philosophy. The areas they were failing in improved drastically. They were organizational structures, focus of improvement work, personal and social dynamics, contextual influences, and leadership and saw significant improvements in these …show more content…

Communication was very weak. There was a big disconnection in the goal, purpose and intent. There was tension and challenges in the traditional school model. The staff embraced a set of value, customs and beliefs that conflicts with the school they are working in. Professional communities need an orientation that values openness to new ideas and practices and mutual accountability for learning (Talbert, 2010) during collaboration the team tried to solve complex problems it can be difficult for the learning community to hold control of the conversation. (3) Arriving at solutions and organization takes a lot of time and effort. Grossman, Wineberg, and Woolworth (2001) states it takes time to sort through subject matter, approaches to teaching, gender, race, and ideas of privacy. There need to be commitment and continuous engagement. (4) There is the challenge of student learning and faculty development. It is important for the learning community to form a platform for student learning and faculty development. The team needs to gather up what they know about learning and practice the best approaches to student teaching (5) the challenge of institutional change. In order for a learning community to succeed, there need to be institutional changes to enhance educational reform. It requires structural change, reworking roles and relationships, and generally employ

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