Professional Learning Communities

摘要

We can all agree that the pur-pose of schools is student learning ,and that the most significant factor in whether students learn well is teaching quality. Further, teaching quality is improved through continuous professional learning. The context most supportive of the learning of professionals is the professional learning community (Hord & Hirsh, 2008). Here I define what happens in the professional learning community and what makes such communities possible. First, what is the community learning? "It is vital that ... staff members understand the linkage between learning with students in the classroom and learning with colleagues" (Lambert, 2003, p. 21). Members of the community thoughtfully study multiple sources of student data to discover where students are performing well, and thus where staff members can celebrate.