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Maximizing Teacher Success Through Small Group Collaboration
Leadership | K-12
Research shows that peer collaboration is one of the most meaningful forms of teacher learning. After all, no one understands what it is like to be in the classroom day in and day out like your fellow teachers. Collaborating in tailored learning communities not only helps you deepen your relationships with other teachers but also encourages meaningful growth and development. So, what do these groups look like? And, how do you make the most of them?
In this course, you will explore the value of professional learning communities (PLCs) for teacher improvement and student learning. You will investigate how to cultivate and manage these communities and also examine strategies for improving communication and dealing with confrontation if it arises. Finally, you will explore how to effectively leverage the online space for flipped professional development (PD) in small groups in order to maximize your teacher development.
Using the techniques from this course, you will be able to form and manage productive, growth-oriented groups for better collaboration among your peers.
Connections to Practice
This course provides the following classroom connections:
- Strategies for organizing and managing professional learning communities (PLCs)
- Approaches to emphasizing equitable learning outcomes through PLC collaboration
- Structures for different PLC formats and activities
- Resources for leveraging the PLC model for professional development
Course Objectives
In this course, participants will:
- Examine the value of structured teacher collaboration in schools.
- Evaluate the benefits and key traits of professional learning communities (PLCs).
- Outline strategies for effective collaboration.
- Leverage the four critical questions that a PLC needs to consider in order to establish and maintain equitable instructional expectations for all learners.
- Develop structures for PLC success.
- Assess the value of pairing a flipped model of professional development with a PLC.
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- Train your staff in as little as eight hours or delve deeper into complex topics in our longer courses.
- Replace in-person PD days with 100% online, self-paced training teachers can complete virtually.
- Get PD tailored to your school's unique needs with our customizable content and flexible solutions.
- Offer higher education rigor and quality designed to give your teachers targeted, relevant training they can apply immediately.
- Increase buy-in and morale by providing teacher choice while maintaining school/district oversight and strategic alignment.
Interested in School/District PD?
Request a Free ConsultationCourse Design
We intentionally plan and build our course offerings to solve real problems in education. We regularly update our existing catalog and develop new courses based on schools’ needs, trends in K–12 education, and continual feedback from educators. Depending on your needs, you can train your staff in as little as eight hours with our short courses, or delve into complex topics in our longer ones.
Our course writers are content experts with extensive subject matter credentials and classroom experience. They work closely with our development team to build an experience that is relevant, highly practical, and aligned with industry standards. Courses are not just filled with innovative techniques, but also illustrate how to apply these tools in practice. With each course, teachers develop tangible products such as lesson plans or assessments that they can use immediately in their classrooms.
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