The Effectiveness of a Training Program Based on the Dimensions of Professional Learning Communities in Developing the Competencies of the Knowledge Economy among Primary School Teachers

Abstract

The  research aimed to prepare a training program based on the dimensions of professional learning communities, and to identify its effectiveness in developing the competencies of the knowledge economy for primary school teachers, and to achieve this goal, a list of knowledge economy competencies was prepared for primary school teachers, and the experimental approach with a semi-experimental design with pre- and post-applications was used.The research tools were represented in a note card for the degree of availability of knowledge economy competencies for primary school teachers, and the research sample consisted of (23) teachers, and the research reached several results, the most important of which are: The presence of statistically significant differences at the level of significance (0.05≥ ∝), between the average scores of primary school teachers in the pre- and post-applications, for the knowledge economy competencies observation card, in favor of the post-application, and that the percentage of adjusted gain for some competencies was greater than the value set by Black, which is (1.20), and some are greater than (1.00) and less than (1.20), which shows an effectiveness ranging from medium to large, to use the training program based on the dimensions of Professional learning, in developing the competencies of the knowledge economy among science teachers at the primary stage.