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About PLC+
Building upon prevailing PLC methodology, PLC+ refreshes current collaborative structures and helps support teachers' decision-making in the context of individual and collective efficacy, expectations, equity, and the activation of their own learning.
Why PLC+? PLC+ professional learning is designed to support teachers in building agency over their learning and is based on the best-selling PLC+ Playbook. PLC+ highlights the teacher and provides a structure and tools for them to own their learning through a collective process with colleagues and facilitate learning structures that develop student success. There are four cross-cutting values that underpin the PLC+ framework:
It's not enough to just build teacher agency, we must also focus on the power of the collective. Empowering your PLCs is a step toward becoming better-equipped educators with greater credibility to foster successful learners.
About the Workshop: PLC + Building Collaborative Expertise
Session 1: 24 August 2022 Wednesday, 7.00 am to 11.00 am Singapore time What are the components of collaborative meetings that motivate and inspire you? Are we really moving student learning forward because we shared our knowledge and skills with others in effective and impactful ways? How do we know? Do you make the most of this time together, or is it time you feel could be more effectively utilised? Collaborative Expertise is when we harness the power of individual expertise. It is when we spend time focusing on student learning in a way that, with our colleagues, deepens and strengthens our own learning and practices. Join us to find out about:
Session 2: 5 September 2022 Monday, 2.00 pm to 3.30 pm Singapore time Collaborative Expertise Implementation # 1: HOW TO... Analyse Data and Check for Bias The question "Where are we now?" is the start of a collective process for teams as they take inventory of student strengths and needs, analyse data, and eventually determine solutions that will address the needs of students. Collaborative expertise thrives on data but can perish if the data isn't used to take action, or if it obscures needs that are hiding in plain sight. Underlying every decision about what we choose to gather data on is an unspoken decision about what we won't look at. But it is crucial to keep conversations about bias at the forefront when making decisions about what we examine and why. Join Sam Rodgers in one or all of the Collaborative Expertise series as she explores ways for educators to utilise what they have learned to ask hard questions and apply ideas in their school to move students forward in their learning. Attend this session to:
Session 3: 12 September 2022 Monday, 2.00 pm to 3.30 pm Singapore time Collaborative Expertise Implementation # 2: HOW TO... Implement Walk-Throughs High functioning teams are professionally generous. Time is precious for every classroom teacher, and finding the time to spend in each other's classrooms can be a challenge. Yet isolating oneself professionally comes at a much higher cost. Collaborative expertise is not only developed during group meeting times but also in the quality times members invest in one another engaged in the inquiry of their practices. Learning Walks are an effective method for exploring common challenges and specific instructional strategies by intentionally spending time in each other's learning spaces. Attend this session to:
Session 4: 17 October 2022 Monday, 2.00 pm to 3.30 pm Singapore time Collaborative Expertise Implementation # 3: HOW TO...Strengthen Habits of Reflection Time is the most precious resource educators have, and coming together to collaborate about teaching and learning is an investment of precious time. When it comes to our habits of reflection, are we reflecting on our professional, collaborative learning, and its impact on student learning, in a way that helps us learn? Do we value the time, as noted by John Dewey, spent 'learning from reflecting on experience'? It sounds so easy: "reflect on the experience." In reality, it is actually more complex. When we reflect, we consider deeply something that we might not otherwise have given much thought to. True reflection connects our new learning with actions moving forward. Attend this session to:
Target Audience: K-12 teachers and leaders wanting to initiate or strengthen their PLCs by adding the +
The Presenters
Professor Douglas Fisher
He is the recipient of an International Reading Association William S. Grey citation of merit and an Exemplary Leader award from the Conference on English Leadership of NCTE. Doug has published numerous articles on teaching and learning as well as books such as Developing Assessment-Capable Visible Learners, The Teacher Clarity Playbook, PLC+, Visible Learning for Literacy, Comprehension: The Skill, Will, and Thrill of Reading, How Tutoring Works, and most recently, How Learning Works. Doug loves being an educator and hopes to share that passion with others.
Mr Gilbert Halcrow
Registration Details
Course Code: PLC245121722 Topic: PLC+: Building Collaborative Expertise This course has a total of four sessions. Session 1: Date: 24 August 2022 Wednesday Time: 7.00 am to 11.00 am Singapore time Speakers: Professor Douglas Fisher and Mr Gilbert Halcrow
Session 2: Collaborative Expertise Implementation # 1: HOW TO... Analyse Data and Check for Bias Date: 5 September 2022 Monday Time: 2.00 pm to 3.30 pm Singapore time Speaker: Mr Gilbert Halcrow
Session 3: Collaborative Expertise Implementation # 2: HOW TO... Implement Walk-Throughs Date: 12 September 2022 Monday Time: 2.00 pm to 3.30 pm Singapore time Speaker: Mr Gilbert Halcrow
Session 4: Collaborative Expertise Implementation # 3: HOW TO...Strengthen Habits of Reflection Date: 17 October 2022 Monday Time: 2.00 pm to 3.30 pm Singapore time Speaker: Mr Gilbert Halcrow
Mode of Delivery: via Zoom Closing Date: 30 September 2022 Friday Workshop Fee: S$495.00 per participant. If 5 or more participants from the same school/organization attend the same workshop, the discounted fee will be S$315.00 per participant for that particular workshop. Fees are subject to GST.
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Dr Douglas Fisher, Ph.D., is a Professor of Educational Leadership at San Diego State University and a teacher leader at Health Sciences High. Previously, Doug was an early intervention teacher and elementary school educator.
Gilbert's extensive education experience both locally and internationally includes expertise in school leadership, arts education, learning technologies, learning designs and frameworks for collaboration and creativity. Gilbert enjoys collaborating creatively, working with schools across Australia to support teachers and school leaders so they can have the greatest impact on learners.