Features of a Developing Mathematics Professional Learning Community and Affordances for Teacher Learning Opportunities
Professional learning communities are commonly as a viable model for on-going and productive teacher learning. However few studies have investigated how such communities develop to become fully functional and sustainable learning communities. This study investigated features of a developing teac...
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| author | Million Chauraya Patrick Barmby |
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| description | Professional learning communities are commonly as a viable model for on-going and productive teacher learning. However few studies have investigated how such communities develop to become fully functional and sustainable learning communities. This study investigated features of a developing teacher professional learning community and opportunities for learning. Five mathematics teachers in one township primary school in South Africa and the two authors of this paper constituted the professional learning community. Transcripts of the audio-recorded meetings constituted the data analysed in this paper. Data analysis was done using the critical incidence approach. The findings indicate that the teachers shifted from passive to more active participants. They gradually perceived themselves as a community, sharing thinking and co-creating new meanings collaboratively. The facilitators’ roles gradually shifted from leading and intervening and probing.Opportunities for learning were created with respect to knowledge of learners’problem solving needs, and specific instructional practices to address those needs. The findings indicate that the development of effective and sustainable professional learning communities is a gradual process that takes time, and involves shifts in roles by both facilitators and teachers. |
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| spelling | ir-11408-56792023-06-05T07:35:07Z Features of a Developing Mathematics Professional Learning Community and Affordances for Teacher Learning Opportunities Million Chauraya Patrick Barmby Department of Applied Education, Faculty of Education, Midlands State University, Gweru, Zimbabwe University of the Witwatersrand,Johannesburg, South Africa Professional Learning Community, Teacher Learning Opportunities Professional learning communities are commonly as a viable model for on-going and productive teacher learning. However few studies have investigated how such communities develop to become fully functional and sustainable learning communities. This study investigated features of a developing teacher professional learning community and opportunities for learning. Five mathematics teachers in one township primary school in South Africa and the two authors of this paper constituted the professional learning community. Transcripts of the audio-recorded meetings constituted the data analysed in this paper. Data analysis was done using the critical incidence approach. The findings indicate that the teachers shifted from passive to more active participants. They gradually perceived themselves as a community, sharing thinking and co-creating new meanings collaboratively. The facilitators’ roles gradually shifted from leading and intervening and probing.Opportunities for learning were created with respect to knowledge of learners’problem solving needs, and specific instructional practices to address those needs. The findings indicate that the development of effective and sustainable professional learning communities is a gradual process that takes time, and involves shifts in roles by both facilitators and teachers. 5 1 205 216 2023-06-05T07:35:06Z 2023-06-05T07:35:06Z 2022-04-25 research article https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/5679 http://dx.doi.org/10.23887/ijerr.v5i1 en Indonesian journal of educational research and review 2621-8984 open Undiksha Press |
| spellingShingle | Professional Learning Community, Teacher Learning Opportunities Million Chauraya Patrick Barmby Features of a Developing Mathematics Professional Learning Community and Affordances for Teacher Learning Opportunities |
| title | Features of a Developing Mathematics Professional Learning Community and Affordances for Teacher Learning Opportunities |
| title_full | Features of a Developing Mathematics Professional Learning Community and Affordances for Teacher Learning Opportunities |
| title_fullStr | Features of a Developing Mathematics Professional Learning Community and Affordances for Teacher Learning Opportunities |
| title_full_unstemmed | Features of a Developing Mathematics Professional Learning Community and Affordances for Teacher Learning Opportunities |
| title_short | Features of a Developing Mathematics Professional Learning Community and Affordances for Teacher Learning Opportunities |
| title_sort | features of a developing mathematics professional learning community and affordances for teacher learning opportunities |
| topic | Professional Learning Community, Teacher Learning Opportunities |
| url | https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/5679 http://dx.doi.org/10.23887/ijerr.v5i1 |
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