According to The Ontario Ministry of Education a PLC can be defined as "a shared vision or running a school in which everyone can make a contribution, and staff are encouraged to collectively undertake activities and reflection in order to constantly improve their students’ performance.
There follows some suggestions as to places to start looking for opportunities to expand your own PLC.
1. www.twitter.com
Searching using hashtags eg #science and #k12 will find a stream of 'tweets' tagged as K12 science related. Signing up for an account will allow you to read related tweets and eventually follow like minded individuals and participate in K12 Science focused discussions.
2. www.edutopia.org/groups
Edutopia has a broad range of discussion groups with something of interest for most including groups for elementary and middle school teachers, Science, Technology, Math and cross curricular interest groups such as project based learning or PBL.
3. www.classroom20.com
Over 66,000 members in 188 counties featuring regular free interactive webcasts focused on transformational use of educational technology.
Ministry of Education. Education for all: The report of the expert panel on literacy and numeracy instruction for students with special education needs, kindergarten to grade Ontario Education, ISBN 0-7794-8060-0
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