3. Much more than a staff meeting
Platform
Expert
Action
Review
Redesign
4. • Active involvement
• Commitment
Teacher
School
Shared values and vision
Provide supporting system
5. PLC’s member
• Turning aspirations into action and visions into
reality.
• The most powerful learning always occurs in a
context of taking action,
• Value engagement and experience as the most
effective teachers
8. Processes
• Discuss standards-based learning expectations for students.
• Design Learning model for meeting the standards.
• Teams develop a common lesson plan
• Teachers implement the planned lesson, record successes and
challenges, and gather evidence of student learning.
• Teams review student work and discuss student understanding of the
standards.
• Teams reflect on the implications of the analysis of student work and
discuss potential modifications to instructional strategies.
• Applying new knowledge in the next cycle of continuous improvement
9. An effective professional learning community
(EPLC) fully exhibits eight key
characteristics: shared values and vision;
collective responsibility for pupils’ learning;
collaboration focused on learning
reflective
networks and partnerships
mutual trust
respect and support.
Universities of Bristol, Bath and
London, Institute of Education