Junior School Professional Learning Community by Aga Khan Academy Mombasa https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i en-us 2018-02-28 11:11:08 UTC 2018-03-02 13:02:16 UTC hello@padlet.com How can a collaborative learning community affect the academic performance of students akam_pyp https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236326876 2018-02-28 11:16:02 UTC https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236326876 SUMMARIZE IN A SENTENCE akam_pyp https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236331625 2018-02-28 11:35:40 UTC https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236331625 Khona akam_pyp https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236331825 A mind shift from focusing to learning has a big implication]]> 2018-02-28 11:36:29 UTC https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236331825 Ensuring Students Learn andrew_jones_r https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236342876 Professional Learning Communities should be centred on student learning.]]> 2018-02-28 12:23:23 UTC https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236342876 https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236342958 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. ]]> 2018-02-28 12:23:40 UTC https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236342958 Catherine https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236342968  
Teachers working in teams engaging in a cycle that promotes deep team learning. 






]]> 2018-02-28 12:23:40 UTC https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236342968 productive collaboration is one that promotes learning and helps teachers plan on strategies to ensure that each student's needs are met. https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236343359 Dorcas]]> 2018-02-28 12:24:59 UTC https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236343359 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. https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236343576 2018-02-28 12:25:44 UTC https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236343576 Maurine https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236343651 professional community is a team of educators collaborating and focusing on learning for the sole purpose of ensuring that learners learn best ]]> 2018-02-28 12:26:00 UTC https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236343651 Evelyn evelyn_awino https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236343652 3 crucial questions that must drive our actions as teachers:
  • What? Learning content)
  • How? (assessment)
  • What next (based on "how?" above)
]]> 2018-02-28 12:26:00 UTC https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236343652 https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236343974 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.

]]> 2018-02-28 12:27:13 UTC https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236343974 M https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236343989 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. ]]> 2018-02-28 12:27:15 UTC https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236343989 https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236344219 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.
K]]> 2018-02-28 12:28:12 UTC https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236344219 It is important for educators to focus on students' learning rather than teaching. Therefore, professional learning needs to focus on addressing students' learning. https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236344381 Titus

]]> 2018-02-28 12:28:50 UTC https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236344381 Lucas lmrunde2013 https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236344462  
Educators should be concerned with what students learn and not what they are taught. 
]]> 2018-02-28 12:29:12 UTC https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236344462 Hope https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236344791  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 ]]> 2018-02-28 12:30:17 UTC https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236344791 Fridah https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236344907 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. ]]> 2018-02-28 12:30:43 UTC https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236344907 Cecilia https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236345254 Professional learning should be focused on the needs on the learner as the teacher grows professionally.]]> 2018-02-28 12:31:58 UTC https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236345254 Evelyn evelyn_awino https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236364241 Note to self: always place your students first. Ask: How are my decisions and actions of benefit to my students?

]]> 2018-02-28 13:23:00 UTC https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236364241 Titus https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236364559 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. 

]]> 2018-02-28 13:23:47 UTC https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236364559 Dorcas https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236364805 '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]]> 2018-02-28 13:24:24 UTC https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236364805 Hope, Leah, Mary https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236364984 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?]]> 2018-02-28 13:24:48 UTC https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236364984 Fridah https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236365316 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.]]> 2018-02-28 13:25:23 UTC https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236365316 https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236366080 2018-02-28 13:27:07 UTC https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236366080 Kepha, Cecilia, Peter, Catherine and Ruth. https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236366820 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



]]> 2018-02-28 13:28:47 UTC https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236366820 kepha https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236366821 2018-02-28 13:28:47 UTC https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236366821 KHona akam_pyp https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236367588 Discussing a timeline with a colleague- a study on effectiveness of PLC on improving reading in struggling readers.]]> 2018-02-28 13:30:39 UTC https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236367588 Enitta https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236367608 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. ]]> 2018-02-28 13:30:42 UTC https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236367608 Sangale, Anne & Harsha https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236368268 Questions connecting with real life experiences.
Importance of documenting the questions that students ask.


]]> 2018-02-28 13:32:05 UTC https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236368268 https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236370115 Finding out

]]> 2018-02-28 13:36:12 UTC https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236370115 Lucas lmrunde2013 https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236370124 Questioning is an important tool of driving home concepts. The kind of questions we ask determine the depth our students will learn. ]]> 2018-02-28 13:36:14 UTC https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236370124 Harsha https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236370351 Discussion with Miss Khona how PLC in Reading can be developed and trying it out in class and implementation plan.]]> 2018-02-28 13:36:43 UTC https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236370351 https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236371108 finding out
How to se]]> 2018-02-28 13:38:13 UTC https://padlet.com/akam_pyp/re1r4yu9dp1i/wish/236371108