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Professional Learning Community Connections With Early Childhood Educators: A Personal Reflection |
Participate and share : Poster
Katherine Saribay
This session will give attendees strategies for building trusting relationships in a virtual professional learning community (PLC). Strategies covered will include instructional methods, tips for building relationships in a virtual space and evidence of success from participants.
| Audience: | Coaches, Professional developers, Teacher education/higher ed faculty |
| Skill level: | Beginner |
| Attendee devices: | Devices not needed |
| Topic: | Innovation in early childhood/elementary |
| Grade level: | PK-2 |
| Subject area: | Career and technical education, STEM/STEAM |
| ISTE Standards: | For Coaches: Collaborator
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The purpose of this snapshot is to give evidence of a successful virtual professional learning community (PLC) and inspire other professional developers to confidently implement their own virtual group. This will be accomplished by showcasing the multiple ways of communicating, instructional practices, protocols, and resource sharing with the group of teachers that took place in order to build capacity and relationships. Google Workspace was the most prevalent tool. We used Jamboard, Google Slides, Google Docs, Google Sites, and Google Drive to organize our ideas and collaborate in the virtual space. Our meetings were held on Zoom and we communicated via Google Groups and email. The audience will walk away with reflections on what trusting relationships look like in a virtual space and how to cultivate them in order to successfully guide participants in using new instructional methods.
PLCs:
http://www.siprep.org/uploaded/ProfessionalDevelopment/Readings/PLC.pdf
What Is a “Professional Learning Community”? by Richard DuFour
Meaningful Learning:
https://web.ics.purdue.edu/~rallrich/learn/mean.html
PBL:
https://www.pblworks.org/what-is-pbl/gold-standard-project-design
Gold Standard PBL: Seven Essential Project Design Elements from BUCK Institute for Education
https://www.edutopia.org/blog/pbl-vs-pbl-vs-xbl-john-larmer
Project-Based Learning vs. Problem-Based Learning vs. X-BL By John Larmer
Katherine has broad experience in early care and education settings which has given her valuable experience to draw from when working with early education professionals. Her expertise includes facilitating communities of practice, inquiry & project based curriculum development, and administrative systems building. Katherine holds a BS in Interdisciplinary Studies EC-Grade 6 from Texas State University and State of California Child Development credentials. Currently she is working towards a Masters Degree in Educational Technology at California State University, Fullerton. She is the founding Director of i3’s Lab School, Center of Gravity, a STEM-based early education school.
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