The Teacher's Guide to Successful Professional Learning Networks: Overcoming Challenges and Improving Student Outcomes
1st Edition
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© 2023 | Published: April 18, 2023
The majority of teachers and school leaders enjoy working together (within and across-schools) to improve outcomes for students. Sharing their ways of working, everyday challenges or new ideas helps teachers refresh and develop their teaching to bett…
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Introduction
1. The Call to Adventure – Realizing the Need for Change
2. Finding Allies – Forming a Professional Learning Network (PLN)
3. Challenges and Pitfalls – Successfully Running and Sustaining your PLN
4. Trials and Rewards – Adopting Cycles of Inquiry
5. The Return – Mobilising Findings and Getting Buy-in
6. Achieving a New Status Quo – Making Networks an Everyday Feature of School Life
Conclusion
1. The Call to Adventure – Realizing the Need for Change
2. Finding Allies – Forming a Professional Learning Network (PLN)
3. Challenges and Pitfalls – Successfully Running and Sustaining your PLN
4. Trials and Rewards – Adopting Cycles of Inquiry
5. The Return – Mobilising Findings and Getting Buy-in
6. Achieving a New Status Quo – Making Networks an Everyday Feature of School Life
Conclusion
The majority of teachers and school leaders enjoy working together (within and across-schools) to improve outcomes for students. Sharing their ways of working, everyday challenges or new ideas helps teachers refresh and develop their teaching to better address students’ needs. The majority of teachers and school leaders enjoy working together (within and across-schools) to improve outcomes for students. That’s why, internationally, the focus on learning in networks has never been greater: with an increasing number of new projects making use of networks for improving practice commencing daily. At the same time, educators are regularly encountering practical problems (time, resources, communication) as well as more fundamental issues in attempting to ensure their Professional Learning Networks work effectively. In other words, how teachers can achieve deep reflective inquiry to really make positive changes in teaching and learning, is not self-evident.