View Workshop: PLC: Building a Professional Learning Community in Your School
| Workshop Name | PLC: Building a Professional Learning Community in Your School |
|---|---|
| Workshop Brochure | Workshop Brochure |
| External Workshop Brochure | Not set |
| Workshop Short Desc | The professional learning community model is a grand design and a powerful new way of working together that profoundly affects the practices of schooling. But initiating and sustaining the concept requires hard work. It requires the school staff to focus on learning rather than teaching, work collaboratively on matters related to learning, and hold itself accountable for the kind of results that fuel continual improvement. Here, you will learn the answer "But, where do we start?" |
| Workshop Code | Not set |
| School Year | 2018-2019 |
| Rolling Online Course | No |
| Moodle Online Course | Not set |
| Frequency | Not set |
| Online Course Type | Not set |
| Site | Not set |
| Location | Not set |
| Category | 529 - Professional Development |
| Subcategory | Culture: Social-Emotional Learning |
| Provider | 529 - Professional Development |
| Location | Not set |
| Evaluation Form | Not set |
| Duration | 6 Hours |
| Level | SED CODES 1,2,3,4 |
| Total Workshop Days | 1.0 |
| Credit Hours | 6.00 |
| Days To Bill | 1.0 |
| Participants Must Attend All Days | No |
| District Always Pays Participant Fee | Yes |
| Participant Approval Needed | No |
| Scoring Exams | No |
| Assigned Seating | No |
| Assigned Seating By Table | No |
| Limit One District Per Table | No |
| Rep Reg Days Before Scoring | Not set |
| Workshop Full Desc | What are Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)?
It is interesting to observe the growing popularity of the term professional learning community. In fact, the term has been used to describe every imaginable combination of people with an interest in education! It has been used to describe a grade-level teaching team, a school committee, a high school department, and so on. However, the PLC process is NOT a meeting, nor a program. It can't be purchased or implemented by anyone other than staff. A PLC is an ongoing, never-ending process in which educators work collaboratively in recurring cycles of collective inquiry and action research to achieve better results for the students they serve. PLCs operate under the assumption that the key to improved learning for students is continuous job-embedded learning for educators. Here are the elements of the PLC process: A Focus on Learning A Collaborative Culture With a Focus on Learning for All Collective Inquiry Into Best Practice and Current Reality Action Orientation: Learning by Doing A Commitment to Continuous Improvement Results Orientation Now is the time to move from interest to commitment! We will offer a comprehensive rationale for implementing the PLC process, the research that supports the various elements of the process, common mistakes people make in the implementation, and specific strategies and tools for overcoming those mistakes. Our work will be driven by the education expert on PLCs, Dr. Richard DuFour and his book, Professional Learning Communities at Work, Learning by Doing. |
| Workshop Audience | District Superintendents
Building Principals District Leaders |
| Workshop Prerequisites | None |
| Workshop Objectives | 1. An understanding of what exactly is a PLC.
2. Creating specific steps to implement the PLC process. 3. Deciding the individual or group responsible for initiating and/or sustaining PLC work. 4.The timeline for each phase of implementation. 5.The criteria to be used in evaluating the PLC process. |
| Assessment of Learning | School Leaders will create an Action Plan for correctly implementing and sustaining Professional Learning Communities into their districts. |
| Workshop Topics, Concepts & Resources | Not set |
| Workshop Broadcast Notes | Not set |
| Submitted For Approval | 06/13/2018 |
| Approved | 05/24/2018 |
| Online Course Instructions | Not set |
| Online Course Url | Not set |
| Online Course Pass Code | Not set |
| CTLE Eligible | Yes |
| Social Worker Continuing Ed | No |
| Course Type | Not set |
| Alt Fee Per Participant | Not set |
| Public Notes | Not set |
| Workshop Id | 837 |
| Added By | Shannon Dodson |
| Boces | Cattaraugus-Allegany BOCES |
| Archived Date | Not set |
| Entry Date | 05/07/2018 14:29:00 |
| Last Modified Date | 06/13/2018 14:23:48 |
CTLE Activities
- Pedagogy
Seminars
Learning Standards
- 1 Knowledge Students and Student Learning
- 2 Knowledge of Content and Instruction
- 3 Instructional Practice
- 4 Learning Environment
- 5 Assessment for Learning
- 6 Responsibilities Collaboration
- 7 Professional Growth