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DOI: 10.11118/978-80-7509-832-0-0162

VYTVÁRANIE DIDAKTICKÝCH REFLEKTÍVNYCH KOMUNÍT AKO SÚČASŤ ZLEPŠOVANIA PEDAGOGICKÝCH ZRUČNOSTÍ. IDENTIFIKOVANIE PROBLÉMOV PRAXE

Anna Sádovská, Martin Brestovanský

Professional learning communities are created by teachers who are interested in improving of their effectivity as professionals considering learning success of pupils. We discuss the practice of implementing specific model of the learning communities – instructional rounds in Slovak schools. In our paper, we are focused on the first step of that process – identifying problem of practice (connected to the methodology of teaching), which is realized in facilitated and structured meetings. At meetings, a special structure called protocol for examining of professional practice is implemented. Data in qualitative research are gained from video records and are analysed with the aim to follow the third and fourth steps of protocol to describe structures of clarifying and probing questions. Ten video records (January–June 2021) were created during the first sessions of instructional rounds. We are interested in the quality of questions and statements (non-judgemental and descriptive language, questions for clarifying and probing). As the model of structured protocol was new for all participants, our findings help us to identify strengths and weaknesses of protocol and complete its contain to make it more detailed for professional needs.

Keywords: problem of practice, clarifying and probing questions, protocol for examining professional practice, instructional rounds

pages: 162-171, online: 2022



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