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Promoting A Culture Of Collaboration And Reflection Through A Professional Learning Community, Erica Charlanda Russell Murdaugh
Promoting A Culture Of Collaboration And Reflection Through A Professional Learning Community, Erica Charlanda Russell Murdaugh
Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this qualitative Action Research Study was to describe eight elementary English Language Arts (ELA) teachers’ perceptions of a Professional Learning Community (PLC). The teacher-participants’ opinions about the PLC were used to improve the existing PLC to promote a more reflective and collaborative environment where ELA teachers could be supportive of each other in their endeavors to improve curriculum and pedagogy and students’ scholarly activity at Next Generation Elementary School (NGES). Data collection strategies included semi-structured interviews conducted with the eight teacher-participants as well as a focus group with the eight teacher-participants to debrief the data collected from …
A Professional Learning Community For Novice Teachers At A Title I Elementary School: An Action Research Study, Marie Putnam Havran
A Professional Learning Community For Novice Teachers At A Title I Elementary School: An Action Research Study, Marie Putnam Havran
Theses and Dissertations
The present study describes the effect of a professional learning community (PLC) for novice teachers at Greenville Elementary, a Title I elementary school in the southern United States. The identified problem of practice at this school involves novice teachers who are required to participate in a district-approved Assisting, Developing, and Evaluating Professional Teachers (ADEPT) model as the teacher evaluation program in addition to maintaining a portfolio of their work experiences. The participant-researcher wondered if this affected novice teacher’s self-efficacy in the classroom with children of working-class poor, and if a PLC aimed at increasing their feelings of self-efficacy would be …