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| A learning community is a group of people
who share common values and beliefs, are actively engaged in
learning together from each other. Such communities have
become the template for a cohort-based, interdisciplinary
approach to higher education. |
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| In regards to authentic
instruction, student achievement, and teacher empowerment the
results of learning communities can be tremendous.This statement is
supported by Hord who states,The benefits of professional learning
community to educators and students include reduced isolation of
teachers, |
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| Academic gains for
students expert has found that are necessary, stating Numerous
studies document the fact that professional learning communities or
collaborative work cultures at the school and ideally at the
district level are critical for the implementation of attempted
reforms.. |
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| In an educational setting
a online learning community may contain people from multiple
levels of the organization who are collaboratively and continually
working together for the betterment of the organization. Peter Senge
believes it is not longer sufficient to have one person learning for
the organization. |
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learning Community is seen as an effective staff development team
approach and a powerful strategy for school change and improvement.
The idea of community is crucial to the success of learning
communities. The process should be a reflective process where both
individual and community growth is achieved. Among the team there
should be a shared vision of where they want the school to be. In
his book The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge comments on shared vision
and states, The practice of shared vision involves the skills of
unearthing shared ‘pictures of the future’ that foster genuine
commitment and enrolment rather than compliance. In mastering this
discipline, leaders learn the counter-productiveness of trying to
dictate a vision, no matter how heartfelt Through this commitment
and creation of a shared vision the team, including leaders and
participants, becomes empowered to work together and achieve goals,
are not effective when the team is being told what to do and does
not collaborate.Must be a joint venture for it is true that,
Top-down mandates and bottom-up energies need each other. This
process involves sharing diverse ideas and making compromises so
that all members are satisfied with the direction in which the
organization is moving. |
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