Recap Session 1_Professional Learning Community (PLC)

What is the focus of a Professional Learning Community (PLC)?

• Improving practice for the benefits of learners

• Building collegial relationships

• Promoting conviviality and congeniality

• Enhancing personal growth

What are some KEY characteristics of Teacher PLCs?

• Shared values and vision

• A focus on children learning & having collective responsibility for children learning

• Taking an inquiry stance & Willingness to experiment with alternative strategies

• Making teaching more public & Sharing experiences and expertise

According to Mitchell & Sackney, what is a Professional Learning Community (PLC)?

• A group of people who take an active reflective, collaborative, learning-oriented and growth-promoting approach towards teaching and learning

• A group of people who focus only on student learning

• A group of people who is certain about which strategies to use.

• A group of people who have collective responsibility for teaching-learning challenges

What are PLCs not?

• Spaces for patronising attitudes or insincere friendliness.

• Spaces for professional learning and growth

• Spaces for sharing experiences and expertise

• Spaces for experimentation with alternative strategies

What are the missing Mulford's stages of group development in PLCs?
Forming, ______, norming, performing, __________, dorming, mourning

What are the prerequisites for shaping an inclusive practice in PLCs?

• Support, engagement and learning of willing people; negotiation, conversation(s) and knowledge-based, collaborative learning; time

• Shared values and vision, focus on student learning, taking an inquiry stance, making teaching more public

• Willingness to experiment with alternative strategies, engaging in reflective dialogue, having collective responsibility for children learning

• Having inclusive membership, mutual respect and support for teachers