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“Don’t try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.”
~ Marva Collins
Demystifying Teaching and Learning
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
Demystifying Teaching and Learningthrough intentional Professional Learning Communities
George Washington Community High School Data Room
Professional Learning Communities. Teacher-lead, topic-driven and results-
focused training. Designed to target areas of improvement. Identify student problem areas and focus on
implementing both personal and school-wide solutions.
Share disaggregated testing data, interpret it, then learn from and approve upon it.
PLC: What?
Broken down by day to focus and to link to similar fields of learning:
Monday: Targeted FocusTuesday: Data StudiesWednesday: Rounds and ContentThursday: Reading ApprenticeshipFriday: Lesson Planning, SPED Planning
PLC days remain fluid and flexible to accommodate visiting presenters and for extenuating need.
PLC: When?
PLC: How?
GWCHS Data Room: Data wall
Reflection and Feedback Surveys: influence topics based on the identified needs.
PLCs are often initiated when State, District, and School scores are released.
A teacher who is skilled and knowledgeable in the targeted area will create the PLC.
School Cadre Teachers allow the Content Teachers to meet for the PLC Training sessions.
PLC: How?
PLC: How?
GWCHS Data Room: Disaggregated ISTEP+ Data
PLCs are based on: Scrimmage Data ECA ISTEP+ Teacher Feedback Teacher Observation Student Need Technology
Improvements “Bubble” Student
Needs The Changing School
Culture
PLC: Why?
GWCHS: Reading Apprenticeship Lab
PLC: Why?Observable School Improvement
From the 2009-10 and 2010-11 School Year Data* Overall ELA improvement:
Benchmark 1: +21Benchmark 2: +17
Overall Math improvement:Benchmark 1: +3Benchmark 2: +65
Overall Social Studies improvement:Benchmark 1: +10Benchmark 2: +8
*Data based on: Benchmark Comparison of GWCHS from 2009-2011
Teachers are sharing their knowledge and expertise, strengthening their fellow teacher’s abilities.
They are able to create a unified teaching front and collaborate in their effort to teach, connecting each subject in the minds of students and to improve their learning.
Struggling students can be easily identified, allowing all teachers to focus on providing aid.
PLC: Why?
“We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.”
~Peter Drucker
Demystifying Teaching and Learning