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