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Highly effective learning-progressive schools share two common elements: they operate as high-functioning professional learning communities (PLCs) with well-implemented RTI structures, and they promote student agency in the learning process. Rely on this resource to help you build a highly effective school where students are engaged in personalized learning experiences and empowered to take ownership of the four critical questions of the PLC at Work™ process.
Use this book to create student-centered learning pathways that drive authentic learning and achievement:
Discover how to use the four critical questions of a PLC to form pathways and progressions for personalized learning in the classroom.Begin the inquiry process through the use of personal reflections provided at the conclusion of each chapter.Understand how the school system has changed over the years and why it is important to address these changes.Explore innovative teaching methods and curriculum-development strategies for achieving different learning outcomes.Learn how schools all over the world have successfully implemented personalized and self-directed learning.Contents:IntroductionChapter 1: A Changing Educational ParadigmChapter 2: Student Agency for Personalized LearningChapter 3: Systems of Collaboration and Support for Personalized LearningChapter 4: Teacher-Led Instruction and Release of Responsibility for Essential Disciplinary Learning OutcomesChapter 5: Co-Constructed Learning for Transdisciplinary Learning OutcomesChapter 6: Personalized Learning OutcomesChapter 7: From Theory to Practice in Elementary SchoolsChapter 8: From Theory to Practice in Middle SchoolsChapter 9: From Theory to Practice in High SchoolsChapter 10: The Change Process and Strategic PlanningReferences and Resources
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Transform your school into a high-performing, student-centered PLC. Tailored specifically to international schools, this resource will guide you through every aspect of PLC implementation. The book’s contributors are all international-school educators with firsthand experience successfully reculturing their schools into PLCs. They offer real-world examples, strategies, and techniques to bring unparalleled professional growth to international teachers. Each chapter includes research-based recommendations for and authentic examples of systemic PLC implementation.
Benefits
Define the professional learning community process and understand how third culture kids can particularly benefit from PLCs.Shift from a teacher-focused school to a learning-focused culture.Understand the strengths and challenges of implementing PLCs in already high-performing schools.Learn to work in collaborative teams across grade levels, departments, and courses.Create a guaranteed, viable curriculum for the unique characteristics of international school students.Contents
Introduction Making the Case for Professional Learning Communities in International Schools
1 Building a PLC Culture in International Schools—A Superintendent’s Perspective
2 Understanding the International School Student
3 Understanding the International School Teacher
4 Creating a Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum in International Schools
5 Creating a Learning-Focused International School
6 Creating an Inclusive International School
7 Harnessing the Potential of Singleton Teachers in International Schools
8 Building a Progressive International School
9 Learning from the Jakarta Intercultural School Story
10 Transforming the Singapore American School
Index
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Dive into the possibilities of moving toward a personalized approach to education. With contributions from educators around the world, PLCs at Work® and the IB Primary Years Programme examines practices from envelope-pushing schools within the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (PYP) and shows how the tenets of professional learning communities can ensure that all students learn at high levels.
Educators will:Contextualize PLCs at Work and personalized learning within the IB PYPUnpack the core components of the PLC at Work process and the IB PYP frameworkDiscover how the PLC at Work process can support personalized learning in the early yearsExplore the essential role of educational assistants in a PLC at Work and the PYPDiscuss the roles that RTI and the PLC at Work process play to support students with special needs in an IB PYP schoolContents:Introduction by Timothy S. Stuart and David (Cal) CallawayChapter 1: PLCs at Work in High-Performing Schools by Timothy S. Stuart Chapter 2: PYP and PLC—A Perfect Pair by Kacey Molloy and Rianne Anderson Chapter 3: Mathematics and Literacy in the IB PYP by Yodit Hizekiel Chapter 4: Response to Intervention in the PYP by Jaqueline Olin Chapter 5: Early Years Education and a Pedagogy of With by Laura Jo Evans Chapter 6: The Educational Assistant in the PYP and PLC by Eyerusalem Kifle Chapter 7: Leading Change in the PYP Through PLC by Calley ConnellyAfterword by Timothy S. Stuart and David (Cal) CallawayIndex