Professional Learning Communities, Leadership, and Student Learning

How leadership influences student learning

Leadership for Dynamic Learning Communities

Three recent research projects conducted by the Centre for Research and Learning in Regional Australia have found that leadership for effective partnerships around learning is a shared process where many people play a part. The most valuable outcome from partnerships where leadership is shared is the increased individual and community capacities to influence their own futures: better community ...

Semi-formal learning communities for professional development in mobile learning

A major barrier to the uptake and integration of mobile technologies in teaching and learning is the lack of personal experience of mobile learning on the part of those involved in teaching and in the preparation of materials and methods of learner support. Our project addressed this by introducing forty academic and support staff to the use of smartphones to support their own learning, within ...

Building Professional Learning Communities in the NT

NT DEET Professional Learning Policy defines Professional Learning as ‘opportunities or experiences that promote enhanced skills, knowledge, attributes, attitudes and behaviours of staff ‘ As we begin to describe the ways in which Professional Learning is evolving in our education system we increasingly focus on teacher learning that develops within a culture of collaboration and collective res...

Modeling the impact of learning environment and professor-student rapport on professional identification of medical students

Abstract: Introduction: Professional identification as a social process in order to define the individual and the professional community of the individual is affected by different environmental, individual and institutional factors. The aim of this study was to identify a model for examining the role of learning environment and professor-student rapport in predicting the professional iden...