Identifying the benefits of a Professional Learning Community (PLC) can help you understand the power of collaboration. Educators play a critical role in preparing, delivering, and assessing learning. Working collaboratively to ensure students are provided instruction that positively influences learning can benefit all learners. Imagine you are a teacher at a K-3 grade school where your principal has asked you to oversee the PLC committee on your campus. As the school year is approaching, you are required to create a digital presentation for teachers on assessment literacy, data literacy, and how PLCs can support teachers in analyzing data, monitoring student progress, and adjusting instruction to better meet the needs of students. The 10-12 slide digital presentation must: Define PLC and the benefits of collaborating with colleagues as part of the assessment cycle to assess student progress and guide instructional planning Explain how the PLC can assist teachers as they move through their assessment cycles. Define and compare data literacy and assessment literacy, explaining how to use both to improve instruction. Summarize a vision for the school, as a whole, for using PLCs to collaborate and plan for learning. Address technological tools or resources that can be used to monitor student progress and share data with the PLC. Opportunities to include students in the assessment cycle process. Model appropriate strategies to provide feedback to students and families. Include a title slide, reference slide, and speaker’s notes in your digital presentation. Support your presentation with 2-3 scholarly resources. While APA style format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented. Allocate at least 2 hours in the field to support this field experience. A Professional Learning Community (PLC) is defined as a group of educators that meet regularly to share expertise and work collaboratively to improve the learning of all students. Most school environments implement PLCs to provide an opportunity for grade level teachers to work together through the assessment cycle, analyzing student performance data, and determining strategies to improve instruction for students. It is critical for this collaborative analysis to include all students, including those who are above, at, and below grade level, to ensure instruction is stimulating and challenging. For this field experience, interview a K-3 teacher with PLC experience who has worked collaboratively with a team of teachers to analyze student data, determine appropriate intervention strategies to support all learning levels, and monitor learning progress to demonstrate growth during learning. In addition, interview an instructional coach or administrator who has facilitated a PLC. While some states may refer to this community in a different way, the goals are similar.  In your interviews, ask the following questions: How does your school implement PLCs? What do you focus on during the PLC meetings? How do PLCs support collaboration with colleagues to identify common curriculum goals and evaluate progress towards the goals? How would you change or modify PLCs? What is the biggest change you have seen in student learning since you started collaborating with other educators?

PurposeThis activity introduces narrative structure and asks you to apply narrative structure analysis to the story you wrote for our class. Knowledge / SkillsThe video explains narrative structural elements including:focus/changeexposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolutionsequence of eventsTasksWatch the videoRead over the story you turned in.Analyze and identify the structure of your story.Write a discussion board post in which you reply to the following questions (copying these questions into your post will make it easier). Write your responses to the questions in complete sentences. Also assume the person reading your post has not read your story, so you will need to provide details from your story in your responses. See the examples below. Excellent response:What is the focus of your story?The focus of my story is on how Goldilocks, a little girl, overcomes adversity and persists in her search for nourishing food and a comfortable place to sleep.Needs work:1. courageQuestionsWhat is the focus of your story? How does your main character change?What is an example of exposition in your story? (You can copy 2-3 sentences in your sentence that demonstrate exposition).What is an example of rising action in your story?What is the climax of your story?What is the falling action of your story?What is the resolution of your story?What is the sequence of events in your story? Link to the video

For this PechaKucha presentation, research a typical maintenance organization, and list what personnel and qualifications are needed to properly staff an effective aircraft inspection program. Discuss the size of the organization, the manning requirement, and what work is being performed.Using the resources in this module (textbook, web links, publications), create a presentation to express what you have learned. Your presentation must have 10 slides including a Reference slide. Each slide must have graphics and text information supporting your topic. Be sure to provide APA citations on each slide to give credit to the source of the graphics and text information. Your presentation must include either audio narration or a script in the notes section for each slide.Use creativity in building your presentation, and remember graphics and text go hand in hand. Your graphics should be relevant, and your text should overtake the slides. Once you have shared your presentation, please view your peers' presentations. Replies are optional but encouraged.