Professional Learning Communities (PLC)
Professional Learning Communities allow staff to work in collaborative teams to continually analyze and improve classroom practice to ultimately impact student learning. Teachers meet weekly before school to dialogue about "best practices" and their implications for student learning.
Professional Learning Communities empower teachers to work together to develop curricular outcomes, assess student achievement, select instructional materials, plan special projects, participate in peer observation and coaching, and pursue professional growth opportunities.
Characteristics of a Professional Learning Community:
Professional Learning Communities Develop Planning Guides
Washougal School District teachers are working on creating Student Learning Guides to help organize their teaching around selected learning targets. Templates and example planning guides are in the grid below by grade. As teachers finish working with their professional learning communities to create their own lessons, they will be posted here to share with other staff and constituents.
| PLC Templates and Example Documents | Download as Word or PDF | ||
| High School PLC (Template) | Word | ||
| High School PLC (Example) | Word | ||
| Sixth - Eighth Grade (Template) | Word | ||
| Sixth - Eighth Grade (Example) | Word | ||
| Third - Fifth Grade PLC (Template) | Word | ||
| Third - Fifth Grade PLC (Example) | Word | ||
| Kindergarten - Second Grade PLC (Template) | Word | ||
| Kindergarten - Second Grade PLC (Example) | Word | ||
| Grade | Lesson Name | Downloads | |
| HS-Science | Scientific inquiry by designing an experiment. | Word / PDF | |
| 6-8 Science/ Math | Reading, Interpreting, and Explaining graphs | Word / PDF | |
| 4 - Math | Fractions and Decimals | Word / PDF | |
| 4 - Math | Estimate and determine elapsed time using an analog clock | Word / PDF | |
| 2 - Writing | Using dialogue tags | Word / PDF | |
| 2 - Writing | How to write a "how-to" paper | Word / PDF | |
| 1 - Reading | Make and explain a mental image (see example 1, example 2) | Word / PDF | |
| K-2 -Math | Charting patterns in numbers (see picture) | Word / PDF | |
| K- Math | Ordering numbers from 1 to 10 with manipulatives | Word / PDF | |
| K- Math | Number Composition and Decomposition through 5 | Word / PDF | |
| K- Writing | Punctuation at the end of a sentence | Word / PDF | |