How can you contribute to the learning community?

How can you contribute to the learning community?

Contributing to a Learning Community

1. Share your learning through emails, blogs, tweets, presentations and conversations.
2. Collaborate with colleagues to develop curriculum, student learning endeavors and school-wide learning events.
3. Ask questions, share ideas and innovate preferably with others.
4. Share your expertise.

What are some ways you can share your experiences with others in your school and community?

Here are some easy ways you can help schools in your community:

• Join a parent & teacher organization at your school.
• Volunteer as often as possible.
• Donate school supplies for other children.
• Go to Back-to-School Night.

Why is it important that you share your learnings in life?

It can foster vision in others and strengthen professional ties. When you share with others, it helps deepen your own knowledge and engrains what you know. You have your own unique set of skills, knowledge and experience. Think about all the ways you can use it to impact others’ lives.

What does contribution to the learning community mean?

Learning communities provide a space and a structure for people to align around a shared goal. These communities enable participants to share results and learn from each other, thereby improving their ability to achieve rapid yet significant progress.

Why is a learning community important?

A strong learning community “sets the ambience for life-giving and uplifting experiences necessary to advance an individual and a whole society” (Lenning and Ebbers 1999); thus the learning community has been called “a key feature of 21st century schools” (Watkins 2005) and a “powerful educational practice” (Zhao and …

In what way will I provide my students with the opportunity to reflect on their learning?

10 ways to encourage student reflection…

• Focus on process, as much as on content. Guy Claxton calls this ‘split screen teaching.
• Focus on learning, not on teaching.
• Always know why.
• Invite students in.
• Allow time.
• Ask the right questions.
• Write it down.
• Use thinking routines.

Why is it important for students to share ideas?

Class and homework activities that require sharing ideas and experiences with others of different backgrounds facilitate educational outcomes that students appreciate as useful for success in a multicultural society (2).