What is the general goal of Powerful Learning Practice?
PLP is a professional development model that immerses educators into environments and practices that allow them to learn and own the literacies of 21st Century learning and teaching. It is unique in that it is carried out over the course of the school year through a carefully planned curriculum designed to initiate and support a real shift in the personal and professional practice of the participants. The end result is that PLP educators understand deeply the literacies and pedagogies necessary to leverage the powerful emerging technologies for personal and classroom learning.
The general goal of Powerful Learning Practice is to provide job embedded PD around 21st Century change through the development of local professional learning teams and communities, virtual bounded communities of practice and global networks. Participants learn how to do action research around a team based project that aligns with school improvement goals or innovational change, serve as critical friends in the improvement of 21st Century teaching and learning and learn through immersion how to use Web 2.0 tools and other technologies as powerful learning tools.
PLP is not a tools focused PD but rather a learning focused PD.
