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The article puts emphasis on how collaboration is essential to
student learning as opposed to only teaching. As an educator, I find collaboration among teachers to be extremely vital  because we can learn and use  new strategies with our students.

As teachers we share the same goal, student progress. We need to monitor students work habits on a regular basis.

As educators we should always want to expand our horizons by learning from others and implement that information into our goals, "student progress."

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In the article “What Is a Professional Learning Community,” from Richard DuFour, my top three “essentials” takes are creating lifelong learners, vertically and horizontally collaborating with peers, and continue analyzing data. These three essentials skills can bump your teaching to the next level.

Focusing in creating lifelong learners rather than teach will create an environment in your class that will help your students become outstanding members in their communities. Also, will harness their interest in learning all aspect of life without seeing it as a drag. It is important to create a fun but safe environment were students can grow academically and personally.

This essential goes hand by hand with the next essential, vertically and horizontally collaborating with peers. Collaborating across subjects and grade levels further enhance the learning prosses of each student. It will help develop multi-level learning between subject and grade levels. For example, whatever skill the Reading teacher is covering can be use by the Social Studies teacher when implementing the topic that week.

Lastly, what ties everything together is the last essential, continue analyzing data. By constant monitoring data, teachers can track patterns in where students need more help, re-teach, or find another way to implement the material to the students. Also, by monitoring data, teachers can identify personal areas in need of improvement. This way you create a fool proof plan that will help you and your students reach their own potential.

Teaching is the profession that makes all other profession. This creates the need of constant improving and finding the best strategies for your students and yourself. By adopting essential skills like focusing in learning rather than teaching, collaborating with co-workers, and analyzing your data will help you improve these areas.

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the article focuses on 3 essentials....I also incorporate a method of PIE- Planning, implementation, and evaluation.  they are very similar to the article three essentials which are student learning centers,  a culture of collaboration, and last result driven data.  They all help the students become more successful by using the methodology that no two are alike and must tailor to meet the needs of each.

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1.  I think the article discusses a very important point about teachers not finding collaboration helpful when it comes to teaching, or not finding the time to work as a team. In reality that's what happens for most teachers, but a great way to achieve collaboration and excellent teamwork is to share resources and strategies with their coworkers.
2. Another topic talked about focusing on the student learning rather than the teacher teaching, which is also an important point considering that it is the ultimate teacher's goal that the students improve, and that is when PLC's become useful.
3. Last, accepting that we become part of the problem that we are trying to tackle when we isolate ourselves from our coworkers rather than asking for help and helping others by sharing useful information.

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For a student to reach individual goals there are several key points or resources that help in the process. The first one is communication. Communication to talk about the goals of the students, to help the student understand find its strength, establish a plan with coworkers to have the best results and to talk about its background. I think it is important to know a little of them to comprehend their behavior and establish a goal for the student.
Another great key for success is to identify the type of learner the students feel better with. Personally, I try to target as many type of learners as possible in a several types of class delivery. That way nobody as time to disengage during class. By implementing projects, speeches of what they learned, drawings, etc; we can make them feel engaged and wanting to learn anything.
My last essential would be set a goal. Setting goals to student is essential so they can focus on that goal and don't stop until they reach it. This would help them not only in class but in life.

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A hug part of benefiting and giving the students a learning experience they can understand, is building an educational relationship with the teachers so they'll be a supportive collaboration. Communication is key to a collective environment education wise. Once teachers and teacher assistants begin to implement ideas and materials, the vision becomes clear as to what can facilitate a students focus.

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Cooperative communication between teachers and teacher aids is essential to make PLC work. When teachers implement these strategies it makes it easier for children to learn because there will be a correlation in all their schooling.

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Communication between coworkers is helpful and important when working on a common goal. Use teaching strategies that can make learning fun so that it engages the learner. Evaluate results for everyone and make a plan for each individual's needs in order for every individual to be successfull.

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Ensuring that children acquire the information rather than just being taught is a big take away from Mr. DuFour’s article. We need to ensure that we can work together to improve the student-learning process so that our children become well rounded students. We need to create a safe, learning environment where students can be focused on learning the content rather than just teaching to a test, while also fostering collaborations with each other to exchange expertise and analyzing results that come from this collaborative, enriched learning process. When you start to focus on student learning you learn what is working for the children and what is not and adapt to better suit the children’s learning process. As a teacher, you develop new strategies for teaching the kids using different teaching methods ensuring that they understand the content and in turn collectively we reach our teaching goals.

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D. Ren                          Analyze results of ideas implemented at the end of the week. By doing this we will be able to decipher what works and what adjustment needs to be done to achieve our goals.            2.Teamwork is also very important in and environment in which education is being implemented. By working as a team, we can share ideas and help each other in solving obstacles that might prevent us from reaching our goals.                3.Student learning is also very important this is where we can develop learning strategies. It is important to understand that not all students learn the same way. Sharing ideas and communicating among teachers will help us reach students.   

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D. Ren                          Analyze results of ideas implemented at the end of the week. By doing this we will be able to decipher what works and what adjustment needs to be done to achieve our goals.            2.Teamwork is also very important in and environment in which education is being implemented. By working as a team, we can share ideas and help each other in solving obstacles that might prevent us from reaching our goals.                3.Student learning is also very important this is where we can develop learning strategies. It is important to understand that not all students learn the same way. Sharing ideas and communicating among teachers will help us reach students.   

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1. One important goal is to achieve the student's attention through fun class activities, constant participation of each student, interesting topics that help with learning, and the use of technology.
2. Motivate students every day to do their best. Raise their self-esteem in order for them to achieve their goals.
3.  It is important to identify if the students understand the class and give them the confidence to ask the teacher for any question they have.

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1.-Cada maestro quiere mejorar sus tecnicas y dinamicas para implementar en un salon de clases,para que el estudiante pueda aprovechar al maximo .
2.-Asi podemos ayudar a modificar los principios educativos y ayudarlos a desarrollarse como personas.
3.-Asi que todos los recursos que podemos poner en practica para la mejoria del educando y estrategias nos ayudara.

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1. Es importante que nosotros como mestros, tengamos conciencia que el aprendizaje no es memorizar sino, es la modificacion conductual para que el aprendizaje lo apliquen en la vida cotidiana, con esto me refiero  a crear planeaciones contextualizando con su vida y su experiencia para que el aprendizaje sea significativo.
2. Creando estrategias debido a que trabajamos con un grupo de alumnos heterogeno, con diferentes caracteristicas y que cada estudiante tiene una forma distinta de aprendizaje ya sea auditivo, visual o kinestesico, ayudara que que los estudiantes se mantengan atentos e interesados.
3. Establecer los canales de comunicacion efectiva alumno y maestro en todo momento como manera de generar participacion activa dentro de clase.

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1. Ensuring that the students learn.
Make sure that the students take advantage of their classes and they enjoy learning.
2. Culture of collaboration
Team work for me is the most important. The collaboration and sharing our ideas and experiences.
3. A focus on result
If teachers and students work together, we can achieve goals and get the best results.

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-     Main goal is to ensure students are learning. Need to evaluate and monitor students to identify if the are actually learning and which is the best method for them to learn the material. Knowing the students level of education is helpful in figuring out were they stand.  That helps us by identifying what skills and subjects the student needs reinforcement and improvement, so the student can become successful.

- This will be accomplished by collaboration of the teachers working as a team. Each teacher will give their knowledge about the students weaknesses and  strengths.  Giving ideas in meetings on how will be a good approach on teaching the material.

- Focus and evaluate the results. We can do so by looking at grades of the exams and quizzes at the end of the week to see what is the understanding of the student on the material and if the student actually learned it. Adjust the approach of teaching the material to the students needs.

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Ensuring the students learn is important.

providing relevance for students gives them a context within which they can develop into engaged, motivated and self-regulated learners.

Culture of collaboration

Working collaboratively represents best practice and teachers who work in teams, engage in an ongoing cycle of questions that promote deep team learning.

Focus on results.

Working together to improve student achievement create great results.

Apply higher order thinking skills, identify current level of student achievement, and establishing a goal.

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1.     Cooperative learning is something I enjoy incorporating in my classroom. Grouping the students into small groups and allowing them to discover new concept together helps each of them learn.

2.     Background knowledge is a wonderful tool that can be used throughout all spectrums of education. Background knowledge is what I find myself using each day to create a connection through the language barrier I have with my students when teaching them ESL. Having images on PowerPoints creates opportunities for students to implement background information that is essential to understanding the new words or concepts.

3.     Managing expectations is important for creating a positive educational environment. When students are lost and confused their effective filter lowers and causes them to have a negative experience. This outcome can be avoided if we set clear expectations through communicating the correct instructions and goals.

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·       Main goal is being able to distinguish each of our students learning capabilities. Being flexible to changes and keep an open mind to new strategies shared to us.

·       Collaboration with peers. Set up meetings to discuss about what techniques have given the best outcome in students learning. Share ideas, create activities and have schedules that work for student’s success in each subject for secondary and high school grade students.

·       Taking responsibility for outcome results. What our students have learned will show in formative and summative assessments taking those results as our own will guide us for future lessons.

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1. Coopertative learning learn how to monitor groups, assign roles, and manage expectations
2. Reading studies show children to reading every day in order to in prove their reading skills.
3. Word Walls provide student with easy access to words they need to know during activities.

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1. As a teacher, it is a constant  concern to know if your students are learning what you teach in the classroom. It is important to identify how they learn best.
2. It is important to apply curricular education depending on the grade level of the student.
3.Teamwork amongst teachers helps us analyze and perform better in our classroom.

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Our goal is that all the students learn and understand. The satisfaction of having good results when the students participate. As well getting their attention and having them interact in class when the teacher is teaching.

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It is very important to make sure that the students learn and understand, it is important to be observing at the same time that they are explaining, since on occasions the students do not ask the doubts they have for fear that they will laugh at what they are asking, consequently This makes them not learn what the teacher wants to teach them, in addition to the fact that at the moment some students are being observed, it can be seen that they have the face that they are totally confused without understanding anything about the subject, which is why it is a good point. to try to be observing when teaching the class.

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While teachers have their own style of teaching, we should be able to teach to learn and understand not teach just to teach. It is imperative that we teach the foundations of the skills and make sure the student understands the underlying component of the of the lesson/task. In a world of diverse populations, one can assume that the student has learned, however have they really learned. We as teachers also must understand and know exactly what we are teaching before we introduce it to the students, not just "wing it".

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Teachers should ask themselves
"Am I teaching so students can learn or am I following the lesson plan?"   It is essential for teachers to be checking students' work  during class time while they are working  to see if they learned the objective or not.  If teachers wait till the end of the week after grading exam papers to notice certain   students did not understand the objective it's too late.  We the teachers are responsible if   students are learning or not.  Building a professional learning community is great but at the end of the day we teachers are responsible for the students in our classroom.  We are Educators .

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When teachers make a commitment to ensure that students learn change will take place. Teachers become aware of their inconsistency between their commitment to ensure learning for all students and their lack of a coordinated strategy being used to respond when some students do not learn. The main job of education is not only to teach but to teach in a manner that all students will learn without lowering expectations for struggling students.

Educators who are building a professional learning community recognize that they must work together to achieve their collective purpose of learning for all. Therefore, they create structures to promote a collaborative culture.

The powerful collaboration that characterizes professional learning communities is a systematic process in which teachers work together to analyze and improve their classroom practice. Teachers work in teams, engaging in an ongoing cycle of questions that promote deep team learning.

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Ms. Adriana Trevino:
Yes, you have to include the four essential questions of a PLC to ensure students are learning!

To all:
The single most important aspect of our job as educators, is STUDENT LEARNING! PLC assists in allowing us to learn from each other and collaborate to do what is best for kids!

Sharing our knowledge with each other creates effective teams of facilitators and guides of epistemological spaces for the children we serve. Imagine the possibilities.....

--Catherine Rogers-Casarez

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1. The communication between coworkers in order to work as a team in pursuit a common goal.
2. The implementation of teaching strategies that engage the students so the learning process would be fun and effective.
3. Evaluate the results at the end of each week, adjusting the plan in the best way possible to achieve goals.

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1. Make an adequate planning of your class, so that the acquired knowledge is simple for the student. For this we can be very specific in what we want him to learn, asking the questions:
-What do we want each student to learn?
-How will we know when each student has learned it?
-How will we respond when a student experiences difficulty in learning ?
This will help us to have a more dynamic and attractive class for the students.
2.  A Culture of Collaboration.
For example , teachers can share topics that then teaching in class, so that each teacher has some additional topic to carry out activities in their class, this benefits the student because he has a review of the subjects.
3. A focus on results.
Never lose sight of our goals as teacher .. which is student learning . Doing our best and exhausting every last resources we have.

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1. Do not focus to much on teaching and concentrate more on the student learning progress.

2. The article states that reading frequently is important. Readers need to understand and retrieve meaning from their readings. Fluency is good, but comprehension is more important for the student learning experience.
3. Teaching strategies that are creative is important because they engage students and involves participate.
I believe that the cueing systems play and important role in a student’s learning assessment.
Cueing systems
- Graphophonic: using letter-sound relationships and visual information in the print (sound) Beginner
-semantic: background knowledge, context clues, and picture clues (recognition) intermediate
-Syntactic:  using knowledge of language patterns (grammar) Advanced

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1. Ensure that students learn by intervention rather than remediation. Meaning that the students will learn if we intervene earlier than waiting to place them in remedial classroom, after school tutoring, or summer school.
2. A culture of collaboration
For example to ask each other what topic are the students learning so that way another teacher can implement it in their classroom as an extra activity for the students to learn the topic of the other class.
3. Commitment and Persistence
To focus on goals to keep the optimism up for all. Meaning to guide the students with positive attitudes and always keep a positive goal for all the students and never loose hope on them.

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1,) Nosotros como maestros tenemos que poner nuestro
mayor esfuerzo . para que el estudiante aprenda.
2.) Si el estudiante no esta ponendo atencion en las clase eso quiere decir que ay  2 cosas . 1. el estudiante necesita ayuda para comprender las cosas. o 2 . El maestro no esta dando la clase como se deve.
3.) Nosotros como maestros tenemos que dar las clases divertidas y educativas a la ves para poder agarrar la atencion de los estudiantes. y asi ellos puedan apender mas.

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1. Coopertative learning learn how to monitor groups, assign roles, and manage expectations
2. Reading studies show children to reading every day in order to in prove their reading skills.
3. Word Walls provide student with easy access to words they need to know during activities.

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1. Promote individual and group accountability.
2.Using assignments that engage students by activating their listening,speaking, reading and writing skills.
3.Adopting teaching strategies that involve student participation on a frequent basis.

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1) Students must feel as if they are actually learning something rather than cutting and pasting, etc.
2) Tests must reflect what students were taught.
3) Results is a must for all students to retain knowledge.

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1.The goal is to make sure that students learn.
2. Educators must create a culture of collaboration.
3. We should focus on results.

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La meta de no solamente enseñar sino de asegurar que el estudiante aprenda el contenido; se puede lograr haciendo un plan de enseñanza más personalizado para cada alumno.