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Discussion 1

Working Together to Achieve a Common Goal

In this discussion, your instructor will assign and post your mock professional learning community (PLC) group of approximately two to three peers. Once your group has been identified, begin collaborating with the group in this discussion and in the Professional Learning Communities discussion for this week. In this discussion, your first step is to get to know your partners in your mock PLC.

Post a brief introduction of your professional and/or educational background and current grade you teach or would like to teach.

Guided Response. As a group, identify a leader. The leader will then:

· Complete and attach the Group Agreement document .

· Post your group name.

· List each member of your group and which of the bulleted points listed in discussion two each member of the group will be working on.

· Identify what mode of communication you will use to work together to complete and disseminate the discussion points. Use the Group Agreement document as your guide for your collaboration. Individually, you will attach and post your section in the Professional Learning Communities discussion for this week.

Carefully review the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate this Discussion Thread.

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(an instructor response) Professional Learning Community PLC Instructor Orlando 2/13/2017 5:20:31 AM

Group 4 Tracey Burton Tathana Reach Lathisa Durant

Group Projects Agreement

Course Information

Course Name/Section Number:	EDU 695: MAED Capstone
Instructor’s Name:
Start Date of the Course:

Group Member Contact Information

(Who is in our group?)

Your Team Name:

Group Member Name	Primary Email Address	Secondary Email Address	Other Contact Information

Group Values

(What do we need to do to ensure our team’s success?)

What each team member agrees to do	Why this is important to the team
Check into the group discussion thread regularly to review progress on the assignment
Contribute ideas and feedback to the group from initial discussions throughout project completion
Communicate with all group members as soon as a problem or issue arises
Maintain respectful communications with all team members
Complete assigned tasks by the deadlines set by the group members
Take a leadership role in group assignment
Make sure to cite and reference all sources of information used in completing tasks
Other:
Other:

Project Management Specifics

(What needs to be undertaken to complete the group project?)

Group Member’s Name	Task to be completed by this team member	Due date for completing the task for the group to review
	Contributing one or more ideas for how the project should be completed
	Outlining the project
	Assigning tasks to group members
	Performing research on assigned topics and writing it up for group members to review
	Making sure everyone meets their assigned deadlines for tasks
	Proofreading and editing the paper
	Submitting the paper via the Assignments feature by the due date deadline
	Other:
	Other:

Group Interaction Guidelines

(How can we anticipate and deal with group conflict when it arises?)

What could happen to impede our teamwork	What we will do if this happens
A group member doesn’t provide project ideas or feedback to other team members
A group member doesn’t complete his or her task at all
A group member completes his or her task, but turns it in after the agreed-upon due date
Other:
Other:

Week 5 - Discussion 2

Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses.

Professional Learning Communities

One component of the 21st Century Professional Development framework encourages sharing knowledge with fellow faculty, using face-to-face, virtual and blended communications. When we think of sharing knowledge, we often think of using professional learning communities. In several of your courses, the concept of a professional learning community (PLC) is presented and elaborated on. A professional learning community consists of individuals with an interest in education. The focus of a professional learning community can be taking measures to ensure students learn, creating a culture of collaboration in the school, for school improvement and more (DuFour, 2004). In this discussion, you will deliberate about the use of professional learning communities as they relate to the 21st Century Professional Development framework with an emphasis on technology.

Initial Post: Think about the 21st Century Professional Development framework and technology when working in your mock professional learning community. Next, imagine your state legislatures have asked the non-partisan Legislative Analyst’s Office to advise them regarding the creation of a blended professional learning community across the districts within the state. As an educator who is well versed in employing critical thinking, problem solving and 21st-century skills in the classroom, you have been selected to participate with a group of other teachers to inform and persuade the Analyst’s Office of why the incorporation of technology to work collaboratively with other teachers in the state is important.

Work with your mock PLC group to come up with a supported argument based on personal experiences and scholarly literature in which you:

· Discuss how you could incorporate and implement the use of technology to create a blended professional learning community across districts within your state to share knowledge with fellow faculty on how a deeper understanding of subject matter can actually enhance problem solving, critical thinking, and other 21st-century skills .

· Discuss how creating a professional learning community can increase the ways teachers seize opportunities for integrating 21st-century skills, tools and teaching strategies into their classroom practice - and help them identify what activities they can replace or de-emphasize.

Guided Response: Respond to at least two peers. In your responses, ask a question about the 21st Century Professional Development framework with regard to professional learning communities and offer an additional resource for consideration that supports an alternative viewpoint. Though two replies is the basic expectation, for deeper engagement and learning, you are encouraged to provide responses to any comments or questions others have given to you, including the instructor. Responding to the replies given to you will further the conversation and provide additional opportunities for you to demonstrate your content expertise, critical thinking, and real- world experiences with this topic.

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