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How can a collaborative learning community affect the academic performance of students

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How can a collaborative learning community affect the academic performance of students

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What Is a “Professional Learning Community”?

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To create a professional learning community, focus on learning rather than teaching, work collaboratively, and hold yourself accountable for results.

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A mind shift from focusing to learning has a big implication

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professional community is a team of educators collaborating and focusing on learning for the sole purpose of ensuring that learners learn best

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Ruth
For teachers to participate in such a powerful process, the school must ensure that everyone belongs to a team that focuses on student learning.

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productive collaboration is one that promotes learning and helps teachers plan on strategies to ensure that each student's needs are met.

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productive collaboration is one that promotes learning and helps teachers plan on strategies to ensure that each student's needs are met.

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Dorcas

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Peter                                       The focus of PLC is staff working collaboratively to ensure that all students learn and achieve to the best of their ability. It is also about harnessing the collective efforts of all stakeholders, generating, sharing and acting on feedback; to ensure that each learner's needs are met.

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Peter                                       The focus of PLC is staff working collaboratively to ensure that all students learn and achieve to the best of their ability. It is also about harnessing the collective efforts of all stakeholders, generating, sharing and acting on feedback; to ensure that each learner's needs are met.

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3 crucial questions that must drive our actions as teachers:

What? Learning content)

How? (assessment)

What next (based on "how?" above)

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Enitta

A way of working together, to focus on learning rather than teaching, work collaboratively on matters related to learning, and hold itself accountable for the kind of results that fuel continual improvement.

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1. What school characteristics and practices have been most successful in helping all students achieve at high levels?
2. How could we adopt those characteristics and practices in our own school?
3. What commitments would we have to make to one another to create such a school?
4. What indicators could we monitor to assess our progress?

When the staff has built shared knowledge and found common ground on these questions, the school has a solid foundation for moving forward with its improvement initiative.

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Collaboration is important in a professional learning community. there are many ways and aspects of the school that this learning community can apply to among them student performance and general school well being.
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Professional Learning Communities should be centred on student learning.

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It is important for educators to focus on students' learning rather than teaching. Therefore, professional learning needs to focus on addressing students' learning. 

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It is important for educators to focus on students' learning rather than teaching. Therefore, professional learning needs to focus on addressing students' learning. 

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Titus

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Educators should be concerned with what students learn and not what they are taught.

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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

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When educators collaborate, they are able to align their strategies in such a way that their efforts are geared towards helping learners, especially those struggling.

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Professional learning should be focused on the needs on the learner as the teacher grows professionally.

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Teachers working in teams engaging in a cycle that promotes deep team learning.

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Note to self: always place your students first. Ask: How are my decisions and actions of benefit to my students?

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'Any fool can know. The point is to understand' (Albert Einstein)
Need to ask and design tasks and ask questions that move student thinking beyond simply 'knowing' and toward understanding

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Assessment in IBL
Formative assessment is the dominant means of assessment that teachers use. Therefore,  It ought to drive deeper understanding and lead to deeper inquiry because teachers and students use it to gather evidence of growing understanding, and mastery of skills in order to design new learning opportunities, and give timely feedback.

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Assessment for learning (formative) and assessment as learning(self assessment and reflection) approaches helps both teachers and students know if current understanding is a suitable basis for future learning. Using these effectively promotes inquiry and deeper understanding.

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How can the selection criteria of students by our school admissions promote inquiry learning?
Finding out
* WHat are the assessment criteria in place?
*How can I investigate this?
*How will I record/document what i find out?

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Kepha, Cecilia, Peter, Catherine and Ruth.

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Kepha, Cecilia, Peter, Catherine and Ruth.

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What we want to learn.
Why do we differentiate?
What can we differentiate?
How can we differentiate?
We are still in the finding out stage of the inquiry, still gathering as many resources as we can.

Differentiation will help us understand how best we can meet individual needs of every student

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Comparing Mentoring TPP with student mentoring. The mentor still has the leading role to 'learn' how to approach and assist 'mentees' in their learning process.

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Discussing a timeline with a colleague- a study on effectiveness of PLC on improving reading in struggling readers.

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Finding out

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Questioning is an important tool of driving home concepts. The kind of questions we ask determine the depth our students will learn.

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Questions connecting with real life experiences.
Importance of documenting the questions that students ask.

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finding out
How to se

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Discussion with Miss Khona how PLC in Reading can be developed and trying it out in class and implementation plan.