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tick in some schools or sometimes that of a particular subject. Hopefully, this will
give you a better understanding and you can take whatever you think is good and use
it with your community in school.
1. School administrators are not the playmakers
Research has shown that shared and supportive leadership are important to the shape
successful PLC culture in school. When my team, the SISC+ PPD Selangau first
brought all the school administrators together to listen to talks on PLC by experts and
master trainers, we couldnt be more excited. We thought to ourselves,
2. Subject
committee
leader is the
commanderin-chief
Yes, you read
that right.
Subject
committee
leader, or in BM referred to as Ketua Panitia is the commander-in-chief for the
development of PLC in school.
Over the years, I have worked with my subject matter committee leader to promote
this culture of professional learning through the process of sharing, inquiring,
discussing, reflecting, questioning and consolidating in thinking about the best
strategies with regards to effective teaching and learning in the classroom. And the
result is, it works!
In many ways, the responsibilities of promoting professional learning lie with the
leader of the pack (the subject team group). The leader is the one who creates a safe
environment for every member to collaborate and discuss issues. The leader is the one
who plays the role as a mediator who acts as an intermediate agent to take in opinions
from different perspectives to find common ground on issues. The leader is the one
who gives equal opportunities to each member to voice their opinions. And, the leader
is the one who believes in his team members that their team is capable of bringing
about positive change in student learning and performance.
When we are talking about developing professional development, passion is the key.
Wikipedia describes passion as an intense emotion, a compelling enthusiasm or desire
for something. Passion is what keeps us doing what we are doing. When we are
passionate about teaching, we want to keep on learning new things. We open our
minds to the world and to the views of other teachers of unlimited teaching strategies,
imagination and creative ideas.
Professionalism can be broken down into three components under two acronyms:
ASK and SAT.
A Attitude: have an open mind to continually accept and challenge new ideas.
S Skill: have the ability to carry out a task effectively and efficiently with predetermined results.
K Knowledge: an acquisition of facts, information and understanding through
experience, learning and discovery.
and
S Skill: have the ability to carry out a task effectively and efficiently with predetermined results.
A Attitude: have an open mind to continually accept and challenge new ideas.
T Training: have the ability to keep putting the theory into practice, applying and
practising the learned skill and knowledge.
5.
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