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Professional Learning Communities (Plcs) For Early Childhood Science Education, Jungwon Eum
Professional Learning Communities (Plcs) For Early Childhood Science Education, Jungwon Eum
College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
This study explored the content, processes, and dynamics of Professional Learning Community (PLC) sessions. This study also investigated changes in preschool teachers’ attitudes and beliefs toward science teaching after they participated in two different forms of PLCs including workshop and face-to-face PLC as well as workshop and online PLC. Multiple sources of data were collected for this study including participant artifacts and facilitator field notes during the PLC sessions.
The participants in this study were eight teachers from NAEYC-accredited child care centers serving 3- to 5-year-old children in an urban Midwest city. All teachers participated in a workshop entitled, “Ramps …