Chapter 2 reflection

1.      When it comes to learning communities there are three main focus points; that the students are learning, fostering a classroom community and teamwork, and focus and produce results.

2. The benefits of a learning community are many, the main focus is on higher ordered thinking and a more powerful learning, creating a community among students and teacher to reduce isolation in the classroom. Also that the teachers share responsibility among themselves, and in working together as a community a change will occur in the learning centers.
3.  Learning Communities empower teachers, to work together and build an environment that challenges students to be their best. Learning community allow for teachers to be sound boards for one another, create new and innovated lesson plans, and strategies to learn.
4. Learning Communities directly affect students, they are able to reap the benefits of what their teachers have been working for. As the teachers display efforts of teamwork, higher ordered thinking, the students will begin to do the same. Allowing for students to have more real world experience.
5. The shared vision in Learning Communities is how to learn together, and learning to learn together. When learning communities focus on these two ideas students will always succeed.
6. The concepts in this chapter relate to creating our health and wellness project by reminding us to work together, question each of the ideas that we have so that together we can create the most well informed, user and learner friendly blog.