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Professional Learning Communities (PLC’S)

Professional Learning Communities (PLC’S). Scholars in Action: The 2011 UNI Symposium on Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity. Getting Started. Session Facilitators Mary C. Herring, PhD College of Education - Interim Associate Dean Kelly Jones, LISW

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Professional Learning Communities (PLC’S)

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  1. Professional Learning Communities (PLC’S) Scholars in Action: The 2011 UNI Symposium on Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity

  2. Getting Started • Session Facilitators • Mary C. Herring, PhD College of Education - Interim Associate Dean • Kelly Jones, LISW School Improvement Consultant, GWAEA • Recorder • Stacey Snyder, Teacher Quality Partnership  Project Manager/Instructional Designer

  3. Outcomes • Create a shared understanding of the benefits and outcomes of PLC’s • Reflect on the current state of PLC’s at UNI and the desired future • Identify how the attributes of PLC’s might better support faculty in their teaching, scholarship, and professional development

  4. Developing an Understanding • Review Components of PLC’s Figure 1:1 • While watching youtube video, what ideas are presented that correspond with the components on Figure 1:1? • DuFour: Professional Learning Communities

  5. Self Reflection • On your index card do the following: Formulate a “hypothesis” about how the PLC contributes to your learning and teaching practices?

  6. Paired Sharing • Find a partner to form a pair • Each partner share their “hypothesis”

  7. Text Expert • Membership in the Community of Professional Learners and Professional Learning Community Benefits • Professional Learning Communities: What Are They and Why Are They Important? • Each partner choose a different text to read

  8. Record, Reflect and Share • Record on your index card, 3-4 key ideas from your text and share them with your partner • Individually reflect on your learning and hypothesis • Share with your partner what impact this learning had on your hypothesis

  9. Thinking about UNI • Find another pair and form a quad • Identify a facilitator, recorder, timekeeper and reporter • As a group, respond to the reflective questions and record on poster paper

  10. Reflective Questions • What have you observed, heard, experienced at UNI that reflects the attributes of a PLC? • If your group could have whatever it wanted (do not consider time or resources); how might UNI embrace the attributes of PLC’s to better support faculty in their teaching, scholarship, and professional development?

  11. Current Reality and Desired Future • Reporter for each quad share one item from the first question. Continue till all items from each group are reflected on the public notes • Repeat the process for the second question • Stacey will record on Google Doc

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