Module 6: School as a Learning Community

Fill-in-the-blank practice flashcards covering key concepts from Module 6: School as a Learning Community, including learning community functions, leadership principles, organizational elements, and School Learning Action Cells (SLAC).

According to Module 6, the school of the 21st Century should be a __________ in which every child has an equal access.

learning community

In a school functioning as a learning community, students learn together, teachers learn together as professionals, and even __________ learn together.

parents

Effective learning communities are both practical and __________.

aspirational

Learning communities convene change agents across sectors, disciplines, and geographies to connect and work together both in-person and __________.

virtually

When setting goals and measuring collective progress, learning communities define metrics as ways of measuring __________.

achievement

Learning communities enable shared learning by examining both successful and __________ experiences to deepen collective knowledge.

unsuccessful

By offering a wide range of leadership roles and skill-building opportunities, a learning community supports __________ leadership.

distributed

Learning communities accelerate progress toward impact at scale by facilitating __________ learning and measuring results to understand what works for whom.

fast-cycle

The first category for creating a learning community encompasses the __________ of the organization, which includes vision, mission, and goals.

moral purpose

The second category for creating a learning community deals with creating an __________ work environment that welcomes new ideas and different ways of doing things.

open

The third category for creating a learning community focuses on the __________ of efforts, examining both means and ends.

evaluation

Garvin (in De Vito, 1996) identifies five main activities of a learning organization: systemic problem solving, experimentation with new approaches, learning from experiences, learning from best practices of others, and transferring __________ across the organization quickly.

knowledge

As an essential element of a learning community, a servant leader operates with a __________ leadership style, functioning as a guide and nurturer.

transformational

The four gifts that servant leaders present to their communities are personal authorship, love for each member, sharing power, and making persons and their __________ significant to the organization.

work

In an open environment for collaborative decision making, the support of __________ is invaluable to the learning organization for disseminating ideas.

technology

A group of teachers who engage in collaborative learning sessions to solve shared challenges encountered in school is known as a __________.

Learning Action Cell (LAC)

Under DepEd Order No. 35, s. 2016, Learning Action Cells serve as a school-based continuing __________ strategy for the improvement of teaching and learning.

professional development

Challenges addressed in LAC sessions include learner diversity and student inclusion, content and pedagogy, assessment and reporting, and 21st century skills and __________ integration.

ICT

Robert John Meehan stated: 'The most valuable resource that all teachers have is each other. Without __________ our growth is limited to our own perspectives.'

collaboration