- Allows teachers to collaborate new ideas to one another.
- Colleagues learn how to learn together.
- Work as a team towards common goals.
Benefits of Learning Communities
- Decreased teacher isolation
- Increased commitment
- Sharing of responsibility
- More powerful learning
- Higher chance of fundamental, systemic change
Learning Communities affects on teachers
- Learn how to work as a team with other teachers and share ideas.
- Make time for new and creative ideas of collaborating with colleagues.
- Learn to give other teachers constructive criticism.
- Be willing to accept suggestions made by colleagues.
Learning Communities affects on students
- Learn how to work as a team with classmates.
- Be willing to make changes and take suggestions.
- Better sense of community.
- Communicate ideas with one another/work towards common goal.
How this could help with out projects
- Teaches how to work successfully as a team.
- Teaches us how to share ideas and collaborate with one another.
Chelsea,
ReplyDeleteYou did a great layout of this post. You made it very clear to a future teacher the benefits and the affects of a learning community. I feel that it is very important that all those future teachers understand the importance of the working of a community to create a successful learning environment. Thank you for such a easy and enjoyable post!