Transforming instructionaldesign
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The document outlines the use of Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) to enhance instructional design and improve student outcomes through collaboration among educators. It emphasizes key elements such as communication, collective ownership, and establishing norms to ensure sustainable change and accountability. Achievements of the PLC include building trust, fostering a shared teaching philosophy, and revolutionizing student learning outcomes.
Transforming instructionaldesign
- 1. Transforming Instructional Design Using Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) to Invoke Change and to Incorporate the Framework into Instructional Practice Imagine the NEXT: The Conference for Entrepreneurial Librarians Natalie Bishop Dr. Pam Dennis
- 2. Professional Learning Community (PLC) “An ongoing process in which educators work collaboratively in recurring cycles of collective inquiry and action research to achieve better results for the students they serve. “ (DuFour, DuFour, Eaker, 2006) ● Improve Communication - “using communication to build shared understanding about teaching and learning” (Graham & Ferriter, 2010) ● Collective Ownership - “make efforts to identify and then amplify instructional methods that work….and create warehouses of best practices that all members of a faculty can draw from.” (Graham & Ferriter, 2010) ● Sustainable Change - we are making changes based on data and are following a process …..
- 3. Migrating to something new Recognizing that we were approaching a cultural shift in our instructional practices, we proposed scaffolding various aspects of the problems rather than dealing with them in isolation, monitoring the adoption of change or level of concern experienced by each librarian. LibGuides 2.0
- 4. What is the point of a PLC? Collaborate and create mutual ownership of the final product Support student learning Maintain motivation to keep the project from stalling out Accountability so that we achieve our vision
- 5. Establishing a PLC Create norms/best practices for how members of the PLC interact and maintain work momentum. Determine your hedgehog and roll with it Establish SMART goals http://www.clipartkid.com/images/479/thinker-confused-rules-regulations-guidelines-related-wo rds-like-laws-uGUyfM-clipart.jpg
- 6. Creating Norms Norms are a set of agreed upon guidelines for how we conduct our work, interact with one another, and maintain forward momentum with our work. Click here to access our Norms and Mission Statement Alignment
- 7. PLC - Finding Your Hedgehog Your hedgehog is your vision for what you can focus on being the best at. “Organizations are more likely to succeed if they focus on one thing, and do it well” (Collins, 2010). What can you be the best at? What drives your engine? (resources available) What are you deeply passionate about? Hedgehog = Your Vision Click here to view our Hedgehog Worksheet
- 8. Accomplishments of the PLC ● Established norms ● Built trust within the group ● Fostered collective ownership over instructional design practices ● Revolutionized our student learning outcomes ● Created effective and more navigable LibGuides ● Developed a shared philosophy of teaching, learning, and assessment
- 17. References & Resources Click here for a list of resources we used in developing our PLC Click here read a study and executive summary of our PLC operation Click here for a list of resources we used in redesigning our LibGuide and Instructional Content Click here for a list of resource we used to overhaul our Reference area
- 18. Continue the Conversation Natalie Bishop Instruction Librarian & University Archivist @npebishop nebishop@gardner-webb.edu Dr. Pam Dennis Reference & Instruction Librarian 704-406-3051 pdennis@gardner-webb.edu