PLC’s and Co-Teaching By: Corey Taylor
PLC’s are communities of teachers, parents, administrators,
counselors, and students who work together to ensure that students are reaching
their maximum potential. Professional Learning Communities create a doorway for
collaboration that helps educators work to meet the needs of individual
learners and reach targeted learning objectives. PLCs enable educators to
continually learn from one another and share different strategies and plans,
and in-depth examination of what does and doesn’t work to boost student success.
Co-Teaching is when two teachers work together in teaching and collaborate in
the planning, organization, delivery, and assessment of instruction. In
co-teaching, the classroom typically has a general education teacher and a
special education teacher who share the teaching responsibilities. Types of
Co-Teaching include: parallel teaching, team teaching, one teaches one drift,
station or center teaching, and alternative teaching.
Resource
http://www.sedl.org/change/issues/issues61.html
In education, learning communities have become dynamic and are being used to extend classroom practice, bring the community into the school, and improve the curriculum and learning objectives for students. While including students, teachers, and administrators simultaneously in learning, PLC’s/Co-Teaching enhance educator’s effectiveness so that students benefit in the classroom.
Characteristics of PLC’s/Co-Teaching:
1.supportive and shared leadership,
2.collective creativity,
3.shared values and vision,
4.supportive conditions, and
5.shared personal practice
References
Professional Learning Communities: What Are They And Why Are
They Important?Introduction. (n.d.).
Retrieved February 19, 2018, from http://www.sedl.org/change/issues/issues61.html
Cooper, J. M. (2011). Classroom teaching skills (10th ed.).
Belmonte, CA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.
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