Real World Professional Leaing Communities: Their Use and Effects

by: Daisy Arredondo Rucinski (Author)

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Publication Date: 2016/12/8

Language: English

Print Length: 228 pages

ISBN-10: 1475822804

ISBN-13: 9781475822809

Book Description

In a professional leaing community (PLC), teachers are organized into teams, committed to meeting on a regular basis to study their teaching strategies and the effects of those strategies on the students in their classrooms. The teacher teams can be of varied form and composition. Whatever the organizational structure, the teams have one goal — that is to improve teaching so that student leaing is improved.Policy developers, legislators, and educational leaders have encouraged the adoption of collaborative professional leaing teams as a school reform model for improving schools. In this book we describe the results of studies of professional leaing communities in real schools and the effects of the teams on student leaing. Much of the time school innovations are not examined in depth. Instead authors and developers simply advocate that they be used. In this book, school principals and administrators describe how their teachers used the PLC teams to improve student leaing in their schools. In other words, this book presents actual research on the effects of the use of PLCs rather than testimonials.

About the Author

In a professional leaing community (PLC), teachers are organized into teams, committed to meeting on a regular basis to study their teaching strategies and the effects of those strategies on the students in their classrooms. The teacher teams can be of varied form and composition. Whatever the organizational structure, the teams have one goal — that is to improve teaching so that student leaing is improved.Policy developers, legislators, and educational leaders have encouraged the adoption of collaborative professional leaing teams as a school reform model for improving schools. In this book we describe the results of studies of professional leaing communities in real schools and the effects of the teams on student leaing. Much of the time school innovations are not examined in depth. Instead authors and developers simply advocate that they be used. In this book, school principals and administrators describe how their teachers used the PLC teams to improve student leaing in their schools. In other words, this book presents actual research on the effects of the use of PLCs rather than testimonials.