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| Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work (Book & CD-ROM) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Richard Dufour, Rebecca Dufour, Robert Eaker, Thomas Many
Publisher: Solution Tree
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
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Pages: 235
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Dimensions (in): 10.4 x 8.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 1932127933
Dewey Decimal Number: 371
EAN: 9781932127935
ASIN: 1932127933
Publication Date: July 1, 2006
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| Customer Reviews:
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 PLC handbook May 12, 2007
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Very useful when working with groups beginning to implement the professional learning communities model.
 Fool's Paradise January 2, 2007
18 out of 66 found this review helpful
"The term [Professional Learning Communities] has become so commonplace and has been used so ambiguously to describe virtually any loose coupling of individuals who share a common interest in education that it is in danger of losing all meaning."
Really? Thank goodness the authors of LEARNING BY DOING have returned with a fifth book (and CD!) on Professional Learning Communities to clarify things and distinguish their PLC from all those cheap imitators. Plus, it's important that teachers, the pawns currently tasked with implementing the PLC concept by fad-chasing school administrators all across the land, be set straight. Where would we be without these enlightened swamis to point the way? Not teaching, that's for sure!
So what exactly is a Professional Learning Community? In Chapter 1 of LEARNING BY DOING, our puissant authors spell out their definition of PLC in only four short pages, using plain, simple language that is refreshingly free of educratic cliches. Lest we all die of suspense, let's review what the Holy Scripture Saith. PLC's are defined by:
"A Focus on Learning": Because schools have never focused on that before, have they?
"A Collaborative Culture with a Focus on Learning For All": Interdependence, collaboration, and collectivism are key to PLC. Anyone caught thinking for themselves, or by themselves, will be ritually sacrificed in the next round of campus budget-cuts.
"Collective Inquiry into Best Practice and Current Reality" [NB: This statement and the passage that follow it are not translatable into any written or spoken language that I'm aware of, including English. I thought I was a professional teacher, but because I don't understand a word the authors said on this page, according to them I'm not a professional at all. If anyone can tell me what it means, please e-mail or fax me. I wait with bated breath; apparently my job depends on it.]
"Action Orientation: Learning by Doing" [Ditto this statement. Although, speaking of breath, doesn't the act of breathing signify an "action orientation"?]
"Results Orientation" [Now that I've caught my breath, the only tangible result of PLC that I can discern is that any teacher who refuses to play ball with the PLC cultists should plan on early retirement or a change of career.]
I could go on, but why bother? Until teachers themselves start standing up and asserting intellectual authority over their profession, the educrats and charlatans behind PLC will have us chasing our own tails until the end of time, or until they find another gimmick to fiddle with. And all at the expense of our students, who deserve far better.
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