Case Study A

Case Study A

Introduction

The healthy development of teachers and high-quality student learning should be the main objective at Central School. In order to enhance the growth and learning opportunities at Central School, there is vital need to promote the professional learning community. In a context where teachers must consider the needs of increasingly diverse students, at Central School should reconsider the traditional structures within the school. This expression is professional learning community which means that school that school must focuses on the collaboration of all stakeholders and encourages staff to collectively undertake activities to continually improve educational outcomes for students.

To improve the quality of teaching, learning can be improved if teachers work and learn together by increasing the interest in the professional learning community at Central School.

Discussion and Analysis

The management of Central School should understand that transformation of the school into a Professional Learning Community (PLC) is one of the newest improvement strategies which have become successful in recent years. It can help Central School to review and transform the traditional concept of the school through enhancing the learning opportunities for the whole school community through collaboration and mutual support, with the aim of improving the learning process of students. The CPA is ultimately a tool for reform that thrives on factors such as educational leadership and distributed collaborative working culture, professional development based on the learning needs of students, inquiry and reflection on practice and systematic work.

The concept of professional learning community has become popular in many countries. Experts have focused attention on the issue for a while, especially in North American. But there is a growing impression that learning communities hold the promise of professional support through the implementation of improvement initiatives and progress of education reform more generally. Central School needs to meet the challenges that accompany the changes in society, technology, environment, working models, economics and politics. Furthermore, professional learning community at Central School can increase the base knowledge very quickly. Therefore, the teacher should build training so that students can actively participate in this process (Hoban, 2009).

Teacher's activity should always be aimed at instilling in students a positive attitude to learning. Thus, it will open internal processes which will contribute to successful learning. Independent learning activities can contribute significantly to development of students' motivation to learn with interest, aggressively and creatively. Constant enrichment of learning motivation will have a positive impact on the quality and learning outcomes. Observations of the children coming to school, as well as special studies on problems of learning motivation indicate that the vast majority of children want to learn through professional learning community (PLC).

Professional learning community will promote at Central School that teacher should always carefully monitor the students. The quality of education will have a significant impact on leadership style of teacher. It is characterized by the unity of the high requirements that apply to the individual student, and a deep respect for him. A teacher who has teaching optimism appeals to students for advice ...