Professional Learning Communities

The role of the school is for students to learn. An important factor that determines whether a student will learn well is the ability and quality of the teacher. We will improve quality through ongoing professional development. The framework that best supports professional learning is the Professional Learning Community (PLC) (Hord, 2009). Formation of PLC is a process that focuses on the achievement of students, enabling educators to use their skill sets. PLC supports cooperative relationships between student learning and educator's professional development.

What is the difference between the professional learning community and the school's learning community? The professional learning community has a teamwork of principals, teachers and staff to determine school goals, improve curriculum and guidance, reduce teacher isolation, evaluate student progress, and enhance the effectiveness of school programs I emphasize. Professional teamwork is important for greatly improving school education, education and professional relations, but it is impossible to build a true learner community. In contrast, the school learning community includes educators, students, parents, and community partners who collaborate to improve school and improve student learning opportunities.

A specialized learning community, with a few common terms (terminology), a variety of from school to school or place, including a specialized research group, a joint learning community, a group of important friends, or a practical community You can call it something. For example, rather than using group collaboration as a vocational training group, occupational study sessions and key friend groups are usually applied to smaller 4-8 teacher teams, although group size is different. In Japan this practice is called a course study or a course study. In addition, the professional learning community can take various forms and organizations for various purposes.

By using the term professional learning community, building a school culture that makes cooperation hopeful and comprehensive only by showing interest in individual activities shared by teachers, not in professional learning communities I can. , Truth, Continuous and focuses on critically considering practices to improve student achievement. School culture focusing on technical terms is "customer-oriented and knowledge base" (Darling-Hammond, 1990), emphasis on learning, emphasizing teacher questions and reflections (Toole, 2001). Communism emphasizes personal connections (Louis et al., 1995). It is thought that what teachers do together outside of the classroom is as important as influencing school restructuring, teacher's ability development, and student learning (Louis and Kruse, 1995).