Members promote and participate in the creation of collaborative, safe and supportive learning communities. They recognize their shared responsibilities and their leadership roles in order to facilitate student success. Members maintain and uphold the principles of the ethical standards in these learning communities.
Brochure
I included this assignment because it exemplifies an effort to reach out to parents and build a strong learning community by strengthening the bridge between home and school. It provides information to parents on student, teacher, and parent roles and how everyone can play in part in the success of the learner.
Effective Classroom Strategies
I included this assignment because it required collaboration with my co-workers. By asking them questions about their classrooms strategies, I was able to learn a great deal and develop strong classroom strategies of my own. They were very generous in answering all my questions, and were eager to help me succeed, which is a huge part of building a really successful learning community among teachers.
Profiles
I included this assignment because although it appears to be based on one teacher's work, I think profiles have the potential to work especially well within learning communities. While doing the readings and completing the assignment, it reminded me of times that I gathered information on my students and hoped the teacher receiving it for next school year read it. To me it reinforced the importance of creating class and individual profiles, and hopefully working with colleagues to use the data gathered in order to facilitate student success.