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Great Resource for PLCs, May 30, 2007
This review is from: Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work (Book & CD-ROM) (Paperback)
Professional Learning Communities are the big buzz currently. Does your school district have professional learning communities? Have you wondered where to start? Have you wondered how your professional learning communities are doing? If you've wondered about any of those, then this is the book for you.
Learning by Doing is a great handbook for administrators and teachers to use as they implement professional learning communities in their school. This handbook gives an overview of the different components of the professional learning community process. As schools implement the professional learning community process this handbook is also a useful tool to assist in self reflection and evaluation.
As a school is developing professional learning communities, this handbook is a great resource to use through the process. It begins by giving advice on how to clarify the purpose of professional learning communities, how to build collaborative teams, and how to establish team norms. The collaborative foundation is essential to the success of the professional learning communities. The professional learning communities must collaborate in order to increase student achievement.
The handbook also shares information about how to collect data, how to use the data to improve results, and how to implement interventions in order to improve student achievement. These components help the professional learning community develop strategies to help each individual learner in their classroom. Schools must develop and support a pyramid of interventions in order to meet the students' needs.
This handbook includes many useful reproducible handouts and continuums which help analyze the progress of each professional learning community. The continuums are great conversation starters for the professional learning communities to use to evaluate their progress. This handbook can help your school improve the PLC process through self reflection and evaluation.
If you are looking for tools to help your Professional Learning Communities improve, this book is for you.
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Learning by Doing, June 26, 2007
This review is from: Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work (Book & CD-ROM) (Paperback)
Excellent Book!! Extremely valuable resource for schools that are working toward a true Professional Learning Community. Easy to read and very practical.
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Learning by Doing, December 3, 2009
This review is from: Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work (Book & CD-ROM) (Paperback)
This book will help me initiate a PLC in my country to have teachers work in collaboration in order to satisfy their students' needs. We will have a strong professional learning community that will involve the administration and the teaching staff to improve our system of education.
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