PLC Ticket Out the Door

A professional learning community is a group of educators that meets regularly, shares expertise, and works _________________ to improve teaching skills and the academic performance of students.

• doggedly

• occasionally

• collaboratively

• for lots and lots of money

What does P.L.C. stand for?

• Please Leave Coffee

• Private Legion of Crazies

• Patty Loves Croissants

• Professional Learning Community

The professional learning community model flows from the assumption that the core mission of formal education is not simply to ensure that students are taught but to ensure that they _______________.

• learn

• antagonize the administration

• stay out of ISS

• beat Murphy

John Hattie claims that one of the most important factors in achievement is...

• the number of awesome new acronyms invented annually by education reformers and DPI employees.

• teachers, working together, as evaluators of their impact.

• the average weight of a student's bookbag.

T/F Each PLC team creates an agenda and maintains minutes from each PLC meeting.

• False

• True

When individual students have mastered a standard, what should be planned for the students who have not mastered a standard?

• Media Center time
• Remediation
• Enrichment
• Time in hallway

What is the correct order of steps in PLC?

• plan, teach, assess, adjust instruction

• plan, assess, adjust instruction, teach

• teach, plan, adjust instruction, assess

• plan, assess, teach, adjust instruction

PLC practices revolve around the 4 Critical Questions of Learning:

• What is it we expect them to learn? How will we know when we have learned it? How will we respond when they don't learn? How will we respond when they DO learn?

• Are we covering each state standards with equal time and rigor? Are we using data and grade books as the only trusted means of assessment? How will we remove the student for pull-out time? How will we remove barriers for most students?

The ultimate goal of a PLC is:

• Free lunches

• Student Achievement

• Lesson planning time

• Marking time

True / False...Priority Standards provide curricular focus in which teachers need to “dig deeper” and assure student competency.

• True

• False