Professional learning societies (PLS) are a systematic method for improving teaching and learning performance through designing and building professional learning societies. This leads to overcoming a culture of isolation and fragmenting the work of educational supervisors. Many studies show that constructing and developing strong professional learning societies - focused on improving education, curriculum and evaluation will lead to increased cooperation and participation of educational supervisors and teachers, as well as increases the application of effective educational practices in the classroom.
The roles of the educational supervisor to ensure the best and optimal implementation and activation of professional learning societies are summarized as follows: spreading the culture of professional learning societies, training teachers in them, following up the application in all its stages, reviewing the interventions carried out by the school’s professional learning communities team, reviewing the results after analyzing them, and preparing improvement and improvement plans and benefit schools, and provide schools with new in professional learning communities.
Therefore, the present paper aims to highlight the importance and necessity of professional learning societies for educational supervision as an urgent necessity to develop the educational process in schools in the Sultanate of Oman, and provides a vision to activate educational supervision based on professional learning communities. The paper was launched from the global trends that call for the necessity of activating professional learning societies in the educational and supervisory process in order to develop and improve the educational process. The paper considered the principles and standards of professional learning societies. The paper adopted the case study approach to collect data and analyze it, through researchers' view and analysis of the reality and requirements of applying and activating professional learning societies between the different supervisory groups.
