PLC - Implementing the PLC Process

Instructions

This activity is designed to be completed as a group in person or using a video conferencing room. 

Who: Work with your professional learning community group members.

What: Implement the PLC process by reviewing student data, making suggestions for addressing student needs who were not successful on the learning goals, and making plans to reassess. 

When: Meet at a time that works for you and your group members.

Where: Meet online using the class meeting rooms and work together using a new Collaboration.  Invite the professor and TA to your Collaboration.

Why: Professional Learning Communities use the RTI process to determine who needs additional supports in their classes. This allows the PLC to address all students who need additional help whether they qualify for special education services or not. PLCs should include the special education teacher in their meetings in order to consult with one another about how to address the needs of any of the students with disabilities who are struggling in their classes.

Tasks

This activity is designed to be completed as a group in person or using a video conferencing tool. Do not break up the tasks and complete the sections individually. Submit one assignment per group.

1. Download this document. Download document.
2. Copy and paste the table into a new Collaboration. Go to Collaborations and set up a new collaboration and title it "Implementing the PLC Process." Invite your group and the instructor (Kaitlyn Osborne) and the TA ( Crystal Summerhays) to collaborate. Copy and paste the information from the Word doc so your group can collaborate on it. 
3. Review your learning goals. After teaching a unit of instruction, the PLC will look back at their learning goals to see if they have accomplished the plans they set for the unit.  As a PLC, review the goals you set for the unit.

4. Review the student data provided. Each member of a PLC will have the scores for their students on the learning goals. They should use this information to determine if students were successful on the learning goals. Use your group's video conferencing room to discuss the student data provided for each class and discuss the key findings you see in the data.

5. Summarize your review of the Learning Goals and student data. Add your summary of reviewing the learning goals and the student data to the Collaboration.

6. Analyze your tier one supports (UDL Strategies and Accommodations). Planning your individual lessons allowed you to prepare to teach using Universal Design for Learning Strategies and Accommodations for Individual Students. Your group was able to teach one of these lessons. As a PLC discuss how you feel students would have benefited from the supports you planned in your lessons.  Add your summary of your discussion to the Google doc.

7. Plan your tier two and three interventions. An important part of the PLC process is to plan interventions for students who did not meet the criteria to pass the learning goals. These students may need tier two and/or tier three supports. Use your knowledge from class readings to plan tier two and tier three supports for students who need additional support.

8. Determine the needs of the four case study students. At this point, it is important to determine if you have addressed the needs of each of the case study students. Review the accommodations you provided them in your tier one instruction.  Discuss if each case study student will need additional support at tier two and/or tier three. Justify your response for each student based on what you have learned in course readings.  Add your summary for each student to the Collaboration.

9. Set goals and plan a time to review goals. PLCs meet regularly to determine the effectiveness of their interventions and to make plans the next unit of instruction. Discuss when your PLC would plan to meet again if you were actually working in the schools. What would you plan to discuss at that meeting? What goals would you want to follow up on and check the progress of their implementation? Add the summary of your plans to the Collaboration.