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Unit 28: Professional Learning Community (PLC) in Education

• A PLC is not a model, it is an approach or process. Most PLC definitions assume a set of Notes
characteristics that reflect the nature of a true PLC.
• Strong, supportive leadership is necessary to build and sustain PLCs.
• In addition to administrative support, PLCs require supportive conditions in which to develop
and thrive.

28.8 Keywords
• Professional : connected with a job that needs special training or skill.
• Community : all the people who live in a particular area, country, etc.
• Collaborative : involving, or done by, several people or groups of people working together.

28.9 Review Questions
1. What is a PLC ?
2. What are the defining elements of a PLCs ?
3. What supports are necessary to develop and sustain a PLC ?

4. What are the characteristics of a PLC ?
5. Explain philosophy of a PLC.
Self Assessment

1. (i) meeting (ii) PLC, 1990s
(iii) restructuring (iv) talents
(v) teacher
2. (i) True (ii) True (iii) False (iv) False
(v) True

28.10 Further Readings

1. The Principles and Practice of Educational Management: Tony Bush, Les Bell,
SAGE Publisher, 2002.
2. Educational Management : Strategy, Quality, and Resources, Margaret Preedy, Ron
Glatter, Publiser Open University Press, 1997.
3. Educational Management: Theory and Practice, J.A. Okumbe, Publisher Bairobi
University Press, 1998.

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