Reflection 2

Learning communities are a positive experience for all. Learning communities focus on teachers working together to teach. They plan together, and teach a large group of students together.

                This benefits all. It benefits teachers because they have someone there planning with them. Teachers can evaluate students better and be able to plan better because they have more than just one mind coming up with ideas.

                Learning communities affect teachers in a positive way because they always have a colleague there with them. They can always receive constructive feedback and ask for questions because they are not isolated. Other positives are the fact that there is increased commitment to the mission and responsibility is shared.

                Learning communities affect students because the learning becomes more powerful. Since there are more teachers planning the lessons, essentially the lessons are more powerful. The students will understand the material more because of this.

                There are many components for shared vision in learning communities. Everyone needs to have a clear sense of the mission. They also need to share the same vision and work together. The teachers need to make sure that they organize into groups and really focus on student learning. For this to work properly teachers need to be goal and results oriented. Lastly they need to be committed and see themselves as life-long learners.

                This concept relates to my project because in a way we are creating a Learning community. Three of us are all researching the same topic to teach and finding ways to do it and in the end it will be one final project. We are collaborating and will all be reaching for the same end goal.