PLC Quiz (9/18/23 PD)

What does PLC stand for?

• Professional Lighting Cooperative

• Professional Learning Congregation

• Professional Learning Communities

• Personal Learning Center

Which is NOT one of the "Three Big Ideas" that drive PLC work?

• Ensuring Students Learn

• Implementing District's Mission and Vision

• Culture of Collaboration

• Focus on Results

Which are the 4 crucial questions of PLCs?

• 1. 1. What do we want students to learn?

  2. 2. How will we know when each student has learned it?

  3. 3. How will we respond when a student experiences difficulty in learning?

  4. 4. How will we accelerate and extend the learning for students who are proficient?

• 1. 1. What do we want students to learn?

  2. 2. When do we make changes to our curriculum?

  3. 3. How do we define power standards?

  4. 4. What are the best ways to support students?

• 1. 1. Why did we schedule a game at Ohio in September?

  2. 2. How much does the chances of food poisoning increase on the road against the MAC?

  3. 3. Is it time for a new OC?

  4. 4. Does this answer relate to PLCs?

• 1. What do we want students to learn?

  2. 2. How will we know when each student has learned it?

  3. 3. How will we respond when a student experiences difficulty in learning?

  4. 4. How do we effectively build and support interventions?

When done effectively, PLC's response to student struggles are

• Slow, based on remediation, broad, and anecdotal

• Timely, based on remediation, directive, and diagnostic

• Slow, based on intervention, directive, and anecdotal

• Timely, based on intervention, directive, and diagnostic

Which is NOT a reason why PLCs tend to fail?

• We focus on what we teach (curriculum) rather than what students learning (attaining curriculum)

• We focus our attention to goals that focus on student learning

• We prefer to work in isolation, because we find working alone safer than and preferable to working together

• We are data-rich but information-poor

What challenges do our PLCs face at Humboldt High School? (Select all that apply)

• Singleton Content Teachers

• Curricular Changes

• PLCs are hard work that require a continuous, sustained effort

• Each PLC is at a different stage of the PLC continuum

What is the PLC definition of Collaboration?

• An irregular process in which we work independently, to analyze and impact our practice to improve our results

• A systemic process in which we work together, interdependently, to analyze and impact professional practice in order to improve our individual and collective results

• A systemic approach on Wednesdays when we are not focusing on the Danielson Framework

• A systemic process in which we work together (co-labor) to effect curricular changes

Which Personal Styles Compass Point best describes Mr. Sprague?

• North- Acting: Likes to act, try things, and plunge in

• South- Caring: Likes to know that everyone's feelings have been taken into consideration and that their voices have been heard before acting

• East- Speculating: Likes to look at the big picture, the possibilities, before acting

• West- Paying Attention to Detail: Likes to know the who, what, when, where, why before acting

Identify the best Norm? (There is a correct answer)

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What series of books/movies focuses on tributes?

• Divergent

• The Hunger Games

• Twilight

• Song of Fire and Ice