Elements of Professional Community

Professional Communities focus on increasing student learning. Robert Garmston and Bruce Wellman identified the following six elements of professional community to maximize effectiveness:

1. Compelling purpose, shared standards, and academic focus

2. Collective efficacy and shared responsibility for student learning

3. Social Capital

4. Communal application of effective teaching practices and deprivatized practice

5. Relational trust in one another, in students, and in parents

6. Individual and group learning based on ongoing assessment and feedback.

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