What are the benefits and drawbacks of Professional Learning Communities?

Teacher Preparation and Education

There are four prompt options for your initial thread. Read all four-thread options, select the one prompt that is most applicable to you and respond. Ensure your thread fully answers and explains the one prompt you selected.

Thread Options:

1. If your reasons for becoming a teacher have changed over time, what caused the change or changes?
2. In your opinion, what can be done to attract more minorities to teaching to meet the ongoing diversity of the classroom?
3. In your opinion, what are the benefits and drawbacks of Professional Learning Communities?
4. In your opinion, what are the strengths and weaknesses in your current teacher preparation program?

Choose one of the questions to answer in at least 200 words and support the assertions with scholarly citations in APA format.

Acceptable sources are journal articles, the bible, and this book:
Foundations of Education 13th Edition by Alan C. Ornstein, Daniel U. Levine, Gerald L. Gutek, David E. Vocke