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Showing 1 to 20 of 577 for “"Professional Learning"”.
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Professional Learning through Professional Learning Communities, Mentorship, and Shared Leadership
… include Drago-Severson’s (2009) pillars of adult learning. Research indicates the inclusion of a mentorship program, professional learning communities, and teacher leadership opportunities, will increase teacher collaboration, engagement, and professional capacities. There are significant …
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Ongoing Professional Learning Opportunities
… includes ways to get school systems to embrace learning from one another throughout the school year, improving teaching and learning.</p>
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Professional Learning and Collaboration
… processes and structures favor teaching and learning in isolation and hinder the shift to a more collaborative paradigm. Professional learning communities (PLCs) support continuous teacher learning, improved efficacy, and program implementation. The PLC provides the framework for the …
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Building a professional learning community
… achievement levels through the formation of a professional learning community at the Ann A. Mullen Middle School in Sicklerville, New Jersey.</p> <p>The project involved an analysis of the current school culture through small group and individual interviews, a survey, and an examination of the …
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Teachers’ Perceptions Of Professional Learning Communities
<p>The professional learning community (PLC) is an essential organizational structure in education, intended to cultivate a collaborative culture, improve professional practices, increase student achievement, reform failing schools, and sustain high achieving schools. Because there is little in the …
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Policy Advocacy: Standards for Professional Learning
… for a district level policy the Standards for Professional Learning as a way of defining what high quality professional learning should look like. The Standards for Professional Learning represent a compilation of decades of research on what characterizes effective professional learning. Since …
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Teacher Learning Within Professional Learning Communities
<p>Professional Learning Community (PLC) structures require focused sessions of teacher collaboration as part of developing effective instructional practices leading to improved student performance outcomes. The PLC structured collaboration model has been implemented in schools across the country, …
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Teachers’ Perceptions of Professional Learning Communities
… explored the influences of a social emotional learning (SEL) focused professional learning community (PLC) participation with core content high school teachers. Numerous schools throughout the nation claim to be implementing PLCs by engaging in activities like book studies, attending …
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Cogent leadership: transitioning to professional learning communities
… to explore the relationship between traditional professional development and the implementation of professional learning communities (PLCs) in one suburban middle school in New Jersey. A mixed-methods approach was used to gather data. Quantitative and qualitative results were gathered from …
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Narratives of teacher professional learning in Indonesia
This research was a narrative study of the professional learning of workshop leaders, that is, senior teachers whose professional growth prepared them to share their learning with other teachers. Six participants in this study made up three cases. Case 1 included three workshop leaders in an IB-PYP …
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Principals & professional learning : a catalyst for transformational change
… A. This study investigated how a growth-mindset, professional learning rubric guides and informs principals' leadership actions during transformational change. Drawing parallels between organizational change and chemical reactions, the study posits that principals can act as catalysts for deep, …
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Professional Learning Communities: Perception of Impact on Learning
<p>This research focused on Professional Learning Communities (PLC): Perception of Impact on Learning. The overarching question for the research is: How do principals and teachers in Title I schools perceive the learning benefits in a Professional Learning Community?</p> <p>(a) What do teachers …
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Purposes, processes and parameters of continuing professional learning
… boundaries and synergies between continuing professional learning contexts of academy, workplace and profession, and considers what factors and approaches of learning contribute to common good in societies. In a review of literature, historical trends in professions and professional learning, …
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Refining Effective Instructional Strategies through Professional Learning Communities
… of this study is to examine the effectiveness of professional learning communities by comparing practices and strategies of content and grade level teams in middle schools. Utilizing data from student assessment, comparison of teams in this middle school was conducted to determine practices and …
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Professional Learning Communities: The Impact on Teacher Practice
The purpose of this research was to explore professional learning communities (PLCs) and their impact on teacher practice. The focus of this single case study was on reviewing the process of the implementation of a PLC (DuFour, DuFour, Eaker, and Many, 2010) within MidAtlantic Elementary School, a …
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Teachers’ professional learning: perspectives and reflections of practising teachers
… thesis uses a case study to explore teachers’ professional learning in one secondary school in the south of England. An interpretive, qualitative case study approach was adopted. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews, questionnaires and staff biographies to explore the key …
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Culture of collaboration: professional learning communities and collaborative coaching
… does cognitive coaching have on the work of a professional learning community? Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) in my district can be unfocused and unproductive. This may be due to the lack of collaboration and a culture of isolation among staff within the district. Self-reflection in …
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Implementing professional learning communities to improve student writing achievement
Demands are made for schools to improve student learning. In answer to that demand, school leaders are searching for ways to implement new approaches to enhance student learning and teacher professional development. Professional learning communities (PLCs) implemented in a school setting can …
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Improving Professional Learning Community Structures for Enhanced Professional Practice
… the historical reality of the District ABC professional learning communities (PLC) to gain a better understanding of their past effectiveness and secure recommendations for the future. This Change Plan included a qualitative study conducted with the members of the Instructional Leadership …
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Correlation Between Teacher Efficacy And Effective Professional Learning Communities
… between teachers’ collective-efficacy and professional learning community (PLC) variables. A deeper understanding of the relationships between collective-efficacy and Professional Learning Communities could lead to enhancing the existence of PLC’s in schools and the discovery of the most …
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