Teaching Learning Cast (TLC) #3: Personal Learning Networks and Peer Learning Communities
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TLC Socials
First segment: Personal Learning Networks
Cultivating and Growing Your Personal Learning Network
“Do you have a PLN?”
“Alone we are smart, together we are brilliant”
“A PLN can help you find a curate the best ideas and resources, and build a network of supportive peers in a time of constant change.”
“To maintain relevancy in the classroom, we need to maintain relevance ourselves”
15% (now more like 25%) of teachers are connected (The Connected Educator) - These percentages should not be the focus, however.
How can we help more educators cultivate and grow a PLN?
Districts need to see a PLN as a viable means for professional development.
We need to provide credit for educators to make the extra effort to build a PLN.
Teachers need more time.
Second segment: The teacher outside the classroom
Is there a moment to take the “teacher suit” off?
What kind of impact do teachers cause outside the classroom?
Chapter two of this book mentions a project in which teacher extended beyond the classroom to transform education in their community. It is a proper example of how important can be teacher’s roles outside the classroom. Reflection raises on the impact that teacher can cause outside the classroom, whether intentional or not.
Guilles, R., Ashman, A.,Terwel, J. (2008). The Teacher’s Role in Implementing Cooperative Learning in the Classroom. New York, NY: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.
GI model
Four new features of GI: investigation, interaction, interpretation, and intrinsic motivation
Six stages of GI model
Class determines social media and organized into resource groups
groups plan their investigation
Groups carry out their investigation
groups plan their presentation/feedback
Groups make their presentation
teacher and students evaluate their project.
Six mirrors of the classroom
Mirror one: the physical organization of the learning and teaching space.
Mirror two: Learning tasks - Using peers and computers as thinking and investigation resources
Mirror three: teacher's instruction
Mirror four: Teacher's communication
Mirror five: Pupil's academic behavior
Mirror six: Pupil's social behavior
Shared Teaching Experience
(Benjamin): Academic Writing: Self-Assessment PROPE
Assessing Academic Writing (Student) Survey
(Piry): Making class decisions for the right reasons.
Raising awareness on the idea of why we decide to do something in the classroom: material selection, context, discipline, topic, vocabulary, projects, technology, etc.