Category: Education

Allocate at least 2 hours in the field to support this field experience.
A Professional Learning Community (PLC) is defined as a group of educators that meet regularly to share expertise and work collaboratively to improve the learning of all students. Most school environments implement PLCs to provide an opportunity for grade level teachers to work together through the assessment cycle, analyzing student performance data, and determining strategies to improve instruction for students. It is critical for this collaborative analysis to include all students, including those who are above, at, and below grade level, to ensure instruction is stimulating and challenging.
For this field experience, interview a K-3 teacher with PLC experience who has worked collaboratively with a team of teachers to analyze student data, determine appropriate intervention strategies to support all learning levels, and monitor learning progress to demonstrate growth during learning.
In addition, interview an instructional coach or administrator who has facilitated a PLC. While some states may refer to this community in a different way, the goals are similar.
In your interviews, ask the following questions:
How does your school implement PLCs?
What do you focus on during the PLC meetings?
How do PLCs support collaboration with colleagues to identify common curriculum goals and evaluate progress towards the goals?
How would you change or modify PLCs?
What is the biggest change you have seen in student learning since you started collaborating with other educators? In a summary of 250-500 words, describe your interviews and reflect on how the information you learned might be applied in your future practice.

Read the Article: The Amazing Teen Brain Amazing Teen Brain https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277935210_The_Amazing_Teen_Brain
Respond to the following:
1. Discuss a few of the key findings from the research on brain development described in the article that you found interesting and explain why you connected with those findings.
2. Discuss the implications of this research for educators and for parents.
3. Share any personal experiences you have that relate to this topic or pose a question that relates to the topic .

Read the syllabus. Write one paragraph that describes your understanding of the syllabus and the assignments required.

Make a chart with all the information listed below.
Staffing
Salary for each staff member
Hours
Break time
Qualifications required.
Create a plan for staffing two classrooms for one week. Show what time each staff person will arrive, leave, and be on break. Assume the center is open for 10 hours a day. How many full-time staff did you include? How many part-time? How many FTEs did you need?

Select one of the five critical traditions that are described in Teaching for Critical Thinking I chose Critical Tradition # 5. Critical Theory: Speaking Truth to Power
Research outside sources about your selected tradition.
Write a two page paper explaining the role tradition plays in critical thinking.
Include a minimum of three references.
Format your paper consistent with current APA style guidelines.
Submit your paper as a Word document by Sunday.

Select one of the five critical traditions that are described in Teaching for Critical Thinking I picked Critical Tradition # 5. Critical Theory: Speaking Truth to Power
Research outside sources about your selected tradition.
Write a two page paper
explaining the role tradition plays in critical thinking.
Include a minimum of three references.
Format your paper consistent with current APA style guidelines.
Submit your paper as a Word document by Sunday.
book source :
Brookfield, S. D. (2011). Teaching for Critical Thinking. Wiley Professional, Reference & Trade (Wiley K&L). https://mbsdirect.vitalsource.com/books/9781118146712