What is the difference between CFGs and PLCs?
There are a wide variety of professional learning communities (PLCs). Many PLCs are groups where teachers get together to: • Study state and national standards, the district curriculum guide, student achievement data, etc… and then agree upon outcomes that each student should achieve for every subject. • Develop assessments to monitor each student’s mastery of the outcomes. • Analyze student performance based on these assessments. • Discuss new strategies to implement to raise student achievement. So, the work is very focused—all very much driven by standardized test scores. Teachers meet PLCs to make sure the kids do well on the agreed upon assessments and if they don’t, require the students to put more time into learning what they didn’t get the first time around. So, how are teachers supposed to help students do better on the next round of assessments? Most PLC trainings suggest that teachers develop norms or protocols to clarify expectations regarding roles, responsibilities, and r
