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Establish a PLC in PingHe school. Action Plan. What is PLC?. To create a professional learning community, focus on learning rather than on teaching, work collaboratively, and hold yourself accountable for results. ----- Richard Dufour
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Establish a PLC in PingHe school Action Plan
What is PLC? To create a professional learning community, focus on learning rather than on teaching, work collaboratively, and hold yourself accountable for results. -----Richard Dufour [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Learning_Community]
Main characteristics of PLC • Focus on school wide topics • Collaborative research and study • Team members are across grades and disciplines • To improve school education
My proposed focus How to prepare grade 9 students better before they switch from national curriculum to IBDP course learning?
Why is this focus? • Students suffer in the first year of high school learning. • Students need professional help. • A PLC is needed to improve this bad situation.
Who will attend the PLC? High school High school Junior school Experienced 2 or 3 teachers 2 or 3 teachers The Group Teacher who familiar with school administration Humanity Science Foreigner
How to make the PLC work? • Initiated by one high school teacher • Find interest teachers through forum on school intranet • Select monthly rotated leader • Make monthly study and research plan • Survey among students targeting at most concerned problems • Survey among teachers targeting at most concerned problems • Book study about related learning theories • Make monthly seminar plan • Get support from the school administration
How the seminar works? • 2 hours each seminar • 30 minutes book study reflection • 70 minutes discussion about main topic • 20 minutes summary of the monthly topic • one paper report each seminar
Within 6 months…… • 6 seminars under 6 leaders • 6 summaries of 6 seminars • 1 final report of the first period result
After 6 months • Submit action plan to school • Organize a cooperative team • Facilitate teachers in action • Survey on students feedback • Survey on teachers feedback • Make plan for the second period
Goals of this action • Help junior school students to adapt smoothly to IBDP high school learning. • Create a model of PLC in PingHe school.