Chapter 2 Reading Reflection-PLC's

• I am glad the chapter was about PLC's, last semester in the SPED program we spent a lot of time in PLC's. The main focus of PLC's is collaboration, which in my opinion is a very important thing that all teachers learn. I am very blessed to be in the SPED program and we have such a close cohort and are able to collaborate with each other. When it comes to the benifits of PLC's there are many. To start with,  there are small groups of faculity working together or collaborating ideas about how to serve the students. For collaboration to occur the staff needs to be able to have trust in eachother, so having these small groups of faculty makes it easier. And becuase they start to trust each other the teachers gain confidence in their own teachings knowing that their staff members are there to help them. PLC's also are meant to benefit the students. If a student has an issue or a problem that the teacher does not know how to solve, the other staff is there to lend a helping hand, so that the child receives the best possible services. The book notes a few strong benefits;
• Decrease teacher isolation
• Increased commitment to the mission
• shared responsibilities
• More powerful learning
• A higher likelihood of fundamental, systemic change

The topic of this chapter is important to our group project, because not only do we as staff members need to collaborate with each other to make the Living Healthy Cookbook, but the students need to work with each other to make sure they do not use the same recipes. And along with that, we as a PLC need to work together and collaborate ideas on how to have the activity should be carried out, along with all of the other factors.