Reading Reflection #2

      

 The focus of a Learning Community is creating a more effective learning environment for students and teachers by providing support and feedback between teachers.  In a Learning Community teachers meet together to collaborate on what is going on in their classrooms. They share ideas, support each other, and learn from one another. Learning Communities focus on three big, student-centered ideas:  ensure that a student learns, create a culture of collaboration for school improvement, and focus on the results. Teachers focus on what they teach and what the students learn. If something doesn’t go right in the project they learn from that, move on from it and work to improve it

A Learning Community as several benefits. The benefits include decreased teacher isolation, increased commitment to the mission, shared responsibility, more powerful learning, and a higher likelihood of fundamental, systemic change.  Being a part of a Learning Community can make your professional life more productive and satisfying.

       
 Learning Communities affect teachers by bringing them together to make sure that the student’s learn. Having the opportunity for the feedback and support just improves there teaching abilities.  Learning Communities affect students by developing skills and dispositions necessary in the “real world.” This includes communication, problem solving, project management, motivation, and persistence. By being part of a Learning Community is motivates both students and teachers for success. Overall, being part of a Learning Community makes teachers and students more comfortable.

               
 All members of a Learning Community should share the same vision and components. These components are; have a clear sense of mission, share a vision of the conditions they must create to achieve the mission, work together in collaborative teams to determine the best practice to achieve the mission, organize into groups headed by teacher-leaders, focus on students learning, goal/results oriented, collaborate with each other, hold shared values and beliefs, commit themselves to continuous improvement, see themselves as life-long learners.  If the members all share these components then the Learning Community will be a success.

                
 I’m currently in a Learning Community in this class because I’m part of a team for a project that shares ideas and gives feedback. We all work together to make our project a success. When look over each other’s work and help each other on improving our project to make it the best that it can be.