Physics Teacher-Leaders' Learning in a National Program of Regional Professional Learning Communities
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Smadar Levy, Esther Bagno, Hana Berger, and Bat-Sheva Eylon
We studied the learning of high-school physics teacher-leaders in a national Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) program that operates using a "Fan Model": the teacher-leaders' PLC is led by a team from the Weizmann Institute of Science, while they simultaneously lead regional PLCs of physics teachers all over Israel. The learning sequence of one learner-centered activity was chosen as the context for this study. We developed a theoretical framework: Physics Knowledge for Teaching and Leading (PKTL), which we used for a micro-level discourse analysis, together with the Knowledge Integration (KI) perspective. The results show that the evidence-based learning of a new learner-centered activity fostered the learning of physics and a rich array of other aspects of teacher-leaders' knowledge. The teacher-leaders' PLC turned out to be a meaningful, supportive, and enriching learning environment. We suggest that our program can serve as an effective model for the professional development of both teacher-leaders and teachers in regional PLCs.
Physics Education Research Conference 2018
Part of the PER Conference series Washington, DC: August 1-2, 2018
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<a href="https://www.compadre.org/portal/items/detail.cfm?ID=14814">Levy, S, E. Bagno, H. Berger, and B. Eylon. "Physics Teacher-Leaders' Learning in a National Program of Regional Professional Learning Communities." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2018, Washington, DC, August 1-2, 2018.</a>
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S. Levy, E. Bagno, H. Berger, and B. Eylon, , presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2018, Washington, DC, 2018, WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=14814&DocID=4961).
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S. Levy, E. Bagno, H. Berger, and B. Eylon, Physics Teacher-Leaders' Learning in a National Program of Regional Professional Learning Communities, presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2018, Washington, DC, 2018, <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=14814&DocID=4961>.
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Levy, S., Bagno, E., Berger, H., & Eylon, B. (2018, August 1-2). Physics Teacher-Leaders' Learning in a National Program of Regional Professional Learning Communities. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2018, Washington, DC. Retrieved October 4, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=14814&DocID=4961
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Levy, S, E. Bagno, H. Berger, and B. Eylon. "Physics Teacher-Leaders' Learning in a National Program of Regional Professional Learning Communities." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2018, Washington, DC, August 1-2, 2018. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=14814&DocID=4961 (accessed 4 October 2024).
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Levy, Smadar, Esther Bagno, Hana Berger, and Bat-Sheva Eylon. "Physics Teacher-Leaders' Learning in a National Program of Regional Professional Learning Communities." Physics Education Research Conference 2018. Washington, DC: 2018. of PER Conference. 4 Oct. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=14814&DocID=4961>.
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Author = "Smadar Levy and Esther Bagno and Hana Berger and Bat-Sheva Eylon",
Title = {Physics Teacher-Leaders' Learning in a National Program of Regional Professional Learning Communities},
BookTitle = {Physics Education Research Conference 2018},
Address = {Washington, DC},
Series = {PER Conference},
Month = {August 1-2},
Year = {2018}
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