reading reflection #2

The text described a learning community as the collaboration between teachers and students to further develop an experience.  The main focus of a learning community is having the education professionals collaborate amongst each other. Collaboration is a great way for teachers to give their valued opinions to what needs to change in the school system.   Collaboration should be key in any school system.  Collaboration gives the teachers a chance to talk and communicate with other teachers in their buildings.  Having teachers collaborate with each other gives them a chance to help each other with all the new technologies in the buildings or just help with certain lesson plans.  Teachers can collaborate with each other on what they want their students to learn and how they are doing to teach that lesson through different projects.  The benefits of Learning communities are just as I said above it gives not only teachers a chance to give their opinions and have a voice but it also helps that students.  As the teacher develops new ways of teaching, the students are getting to learn something in a totally different way than before.  The students are learning new skills and ways to learn something.  In order for the learning community to be successful, all members have to cooperate with one another.  All members have to have the same goal and what possibilities would work for the students.  All of the components of a learning community must be met otherwise it will not run as smooth as it should run.   The concepts in this chapter relate to our topic of weather monitoring by working together as “teachers,” to help our students learn the basics of weather monitoring.  The students will also work together with students from another country to gather data about the weather from one country to another.  We will make sure that our students are connecting our learning communities with their learning communities.