Saturday, May 21, 2011

RSA # 1 Learning Communities: Implemented, Assessed, and Sustained (Online)


 
http://www.setda.org/toolkit/toolkit2004/professionaldevelopment_02_Building_Sustaining_Professional_Learning_Communities.pdf
       Through my online research I have looked through several articles for the best ways to sustain a professional learning community and to find out exactly what a professional learning community should contain.  The toolkit, “Building and Sustaining Professional Learning Communities”, was of particular interest to me because it provides an overview of professional learning communities by breaking down each category on ideas to build a community and how to sustain a community. The categories were also divided in different headings such as; administration, methodologies, tools to use, and infrastructure. This toolkit is a great way to tie into the module, because it gives us an idea on what we need to set up a successful community.   A facilitator of a professional learning community could take this toolkit and use it to plan and implement the community.  It can be used as a checklist or as a reference when a learning community is being planned.  The toolkit is very similar to the reading, “Sustaining School Improvement; Professional Learning Community,” because it contains the same ideas just in a more concise and easier format to read.

Sedta. (2007). Building and sustaining professional learning communities.  National Learning Institute.  Retrieved from   http://www.setda.org/toolkit/toolkit2004/professionaldevelopment_02_Building_Sustaining_Professional_Learning_Communities.pdf
Kaplan, S. (2002). Building communities--Strategies for collaborative learning.
 ASTD. Retrieved from http://www.astd.org/LC/2002/0802_kaplan.htm

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Hello Everybody!

 First of all, let me start by telling you a little about me.  I am Pre-K teacher going back to school for my 2nd Masters in Educational Technology.  I love technology and all the knowledge that you can obtain from the world wide web.   I am finally jumping into the blogging phonemon. I have always been a lurker on blog sites, but never took the time to create my own.My purpose for starting this blog is to research and discuss my views on professional learning communities.  I will share interesting articles that I have found and share them.   Here is my first link, enjoy a movie I created.  We can Soar