Learning in communities is important and helpful way to share ideas with other teachers, other students at any age level and people in the community. This is a great way to get feedback or change something you never thought to to better your classroom overall. Like Whipple had stated "I'd find a way to have teachers have more time to work with each other and to develop collaborative projects."
Learning communities can benefit many teachers, they can share ideas on projects they have done with classrooms that either went great or may have gone way wrong to help out the other teachers in the learning communities. They can than work together to improve on projects and ideas to benefit not only one classroom but many. Also this can help new teachers work with ones that may not have a lot of experience with PBL and share there ideas and give each other feedback.
These communities affect teachers in many great ways, like the book talks about working in teams to get better ideas and "learning organization" you can bounce ideas back and forth to really get the best ideas together. It builds a better school system as well for the teachers if they are all working together on ideas and PBL. This gives the teachers a chance to give critical feedback to each other and gives you a chance to see what you many have overlook in a project. This will also help any new teacher that maybe new to PBL.
Learning communities will help give students a better education by getting the best from every teacher now with PBL. The projects will be better prepared and better understood by both students and teachers. Teachers who are part of the communities are more focused on the student, giving each student a better understanding of whats being learning through PBL. Like I stated a few times before, the communities help to give feedback and improve on every project making it a better learning experience for everyone.
Each teacher holds clear values and beliefs with how they go about teaching a classroom. Learning communities must shared a similar vision of PBL to help benefit one another. They share a great responsibility when it comes to helping students achieve a goal with learning. Everyone must have a clear sense of the mission, share the same ideas to achieve the mission, be able to work together in collaborative teams the best practice to achieve a mission, are goal- and results-oriented and see themselves as life-long learners.
The concepts in this chapter relate to my project because my members need to share the same ideas and goals with me to make the best project we can together. I have to trust that my members will be well organize and have ideas ready to share so as a group we can collaboratively come up with the best project for the students or whom ever might see this project in the future. Overall be able to work together and open to new ideas.
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ReplyDeleteI liked how you stated that being a part of a learning community you can bounce back ideas from people to get the best outcome for other peoples feeeback. It's also important to trust that the people in your learning community are going to give you the best possible feeback as well as have similiar idesa and goals as yourself. Being a part of a learning community is being a part of a team. You must work together.
I liked what you stated that each teacher holds clear values and beliefs with how they teach a classroom. Not only is that true, but it effects the teachers and the students. it is a great thing that teachers are diverse in their ways of teaching. Working with fellow teachers will only increase the thinking process for teachers. Also, show them many new ideas or out-looks on their views.
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