M268b - Professional Learning Communities ( PLCs) for a Change?
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Susan Hillyard
Susan Hillyard, B. Ed. (Hons) Warwick University (U.K.) Susan has work experience in fifteen countries as a speaker, workshop facilitator, consultant, researcher, on-line tutor. She was Prof. Language IV in Lenguas Vivas and UTN. She is a NILE Associate Trainer, in Norwich, UK, training worldwide teachers in methodology. She has co-authored a Resource Book for Teachers Global Issues for OUP and TDI-TKT On-line Course for Pearson, New York. Now tutor: the Masters in ELT, Language and Globalisation, and Executive Editor for the LACLIL Journal, La Sabana University, Bogota, Colombia and Anaheim University, California, USA. Her most recent post is coordinator: English in Action, teaching English through Drama in Special Education, Ministry of Education, City of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Heads, Deputy Heads and Administrators.
To explore the meaning of "Professional Learning Communities", analyse a number of models and consider the value of planning first steps and launching a PLC in the context of the bilingual school environment.
- Defining PLCs and why they are considered to be important.
- Exploring the concepts of Connectivism and Trust. - Leadership as a shared experience. - Skills for Motivating and Inspiring a whole school culture. - Heads and Teachers as learners. - Strategies for launching a PLC in a bilingual school.
- Ashbaugh, C. R. and Kasten K. L. (1991) Educational Leadership Longman, NY.
- Freire, P. (1993) Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Continuum, New York. - Hartle, F., Everall K, and Baker C. (2001) Performance Management. Kogan Page. London. - Walling, D. R. (Ed. 1994) Teachers as Leaders, Phi Delta Kappa Ed Foundation, Bloomington, Indiana. - Pedler, M.; Burgoyne, J. Boydell T. (1978) A Manager's Guide to Self Development McGraw-Hill, UK. - SEDL Organisation Retrieved 23/1172010 http://www.sedl.org/pubs/change34/ - The Quantum Theory of Trust Retrieved 23/11/2010 http://www.netform.com/html/s+b%20article.pdf - Siemens G: Connectivism Retrieved 23/11/2010 http://www.itdl.org/Journal/Jan_05/article01.htm
- Workshop with PPT and handouts.
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