Learning by Doing (eBook)

A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work®, Third Edition, Canadian Version (An action guide for creating high-performing PLCs in Canadian schools and districts)

Richard Dufour, Rebecca DuFour, Robert Eaker, Thomas W. Many, Mike Mattos (Autoren)

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2020 | 3. Auflage
288 Seiten
Solution Tree Press (Verlag)
978-1-949539-48-6 (ISBN)

Infos

techDiscover how to close the knowing-doing gap and transform your school or district into a high-performing PLC. Written specifically for Canadian educators, this comprehensive action guide expands on new and significant PLC topics. Access Canadian-specific case studies, advice, and tips for hiring and retaining new staff, creating team-developed common formative assessments, implementing systematic interventions, and more. Use this resource to create an action plan for school improvement:Learn how to improve student achievement across Canada s unique and widely diverse provinces and territories, including indigenous and remote regions.Build a shared knowledge of critical vocabulary and the concepts underlying key PLC terms.Explore scenarios, examples, and research aligned to the needs of Canadian educators and schools in Canada.Make honest assessments of your school by examining conventional practices from a fresh, critical perspective.Take immediate and specific steps to close the knowing-doing gap.Follow the step-by-step format outlined in each chapter to advance your own school's PLC journey.Move beyond planning, and start doing.Contents:About the AuthorsPreface: Learning by Doing for the Canadian ContextIntroduction to the Third EditionChapter 1: A Guide to Action for Professional Learning Communities at WorkTMChapter 2: Defining a Clear and Compelling PurposeChapter 3: Building the Collaborative Culture of a Professional Learning CommunityChapter 4: Creating a Results Orientation in a Professional Learning CommunityChapter 5: Creating a Focus on LearningChapter 6: Creating Team-Developed Common Formative AssessmentsChapter 7: Responding When Some Students Don t LearnChapter 8: Hiring, Orienting, and Retaining New StaffChapter 9: Resolving Conflict and Celebrating in a Professional Learning CommunityChapter 10: Implementing the PLC Process DistrictwideReferences and ResourcesIndexnology, 21st century skills, digital citizenship, global citizenship, ISTE Standards for Students, project-based learning, PBL, multimedia, communication, collaboration, information literacy, critical thinking, problem solving, elementary education, teaching, teachers, pedagogy, elementary education, teachers, educators, national educational technology, NET standard, NETS

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.1.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Schulbuch / Allgemeinbildende Schulen
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Unterrichtsvorbereitung ► Unterrichts-Handreichungen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• ISBN-10: 1-949539-48-2 / 1949539482
• ISBN-13: 978-1-949539-48-6 / 9781949539486