A Professional Learning Community is a group of teachers who work collaboratively within the school environment to improve student outcomes. As a school wide initiative, the year 3 teachers formed a PLC with a focus on writing. Throughout the year, as a year 3 teacher, I have met with the year 3 team in meetings to focus on student achievement.
The PLC meeting has followed a specific format where each teacher has shared progress of six high band students, and other students as necessary. As a team, we discuss our previous commitments and discuss outcomes of what we did achieve or didn’t. At the conclusion of the meeting we form new commitments and agree on a date for the next meeting.
As part of a year 3 team, we have committed to writing groups, bump it up walls, and student goals. Resources have been shared amongst the team to reduce work load and improve teacher effectiveness.
This annotation is evidence towards focus area 6.3.