Reflection On Plc Experience

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For my professional learning community (PLC) experience, I decided to visit a meeting outside of my school district and reached out to a friend who works in my local school district. I am friends with two of the former members of the history department at this school. Through them, I have heard of the collaboration that they participated in when they were still on site. This one small branch of a history department has produced a nationally bestselling author, one of the strongest district instructional technology directors in the county, and a member of the leadership team of a local educational technology (edtech) organization. I asked one of my friends to help arrange an observation of this strong PLC and I was not disappointed. I …show more content…

As they spoke they repeatedly expressed a shared value of providing students with meaningful feedback. I infer that this was collectively identified at some point as they answered, “What knowledge and skills do we as professionals need to meet the needs of our students? (Timperley, ). To address this need, they were able to “refine professional skills” by learning how to utilize screenrecording tools as a method of delivering content. They reported that instead of lecturing, they record screencasts for the students to independently view during class, which frees them to engage in individual conversations with students. The screencasts also allow students, especially those with learning disabilities, to focus on the content and rewatch it as needed. As as result of this, they are able to “Engage students in new learning experiences” in a classroom that follows an in-class flipped learning environment. This work has led them to refelt as they answer the question, “What has been the impact of our changed actions on outcomes we alue for students?” (Timperley, 00). The teachers said that the screencasts have lead to an increase in students’ taking ownership of their

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