PLC (Professional Learning Communities)

Establishing a climate of trust and acceptance is essential in a highly functioning PLC.

• True

• False

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

Why is it important to establish team norms for our PLC time together?

• We need to ensure that no one is having fun during PLC.

• Norms help hold team members accountable and ensure the success of the team.

• PLC meetings are designed so that we have an opportunity to complain in a safe environment.

• Team norms are made to control those teachers with bad attitudes.

Which of the following is NOT part of a "SMART" goal?

• Specific

• Measurable

• Attainable

• Relaxed

Which process best describes an effective PLC Cycle?

• Plan, Teach, Assess, Respond

• Fail, Teach, Assess, Regulate

• Formulate, Teach, Reteach, Assess

• Plan, Teach, Assess, Retain

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

Place a checkmark by the answer that is NOT one of the 4 Driving Questions of a PLC.

• What do we do if students don't learn it?

• What do we want students to learn?

• What will be on the summative assessment?

• How do we know they have learned it?

• What do we do if students already know it?