How great groups make great schools
Training leaders how to conduct effective meetings is important, but it's not enough to ensure that the professional development process is valuable. This field book shows educators how to develop group culture, enhance facilitators' skills, and optimize the group's most precious resource-its members. The authors describe how to form working committees, task forces, grade-level, and department teams, and faculties that are more effective and better equipped to resolve complex issues around student learning. Specific topics include
Understanding eight principles that underlie effective groups
Learning the five standards for effective meetings
Setting clear goals and roles
Practicing new ways of talking for improved collaboration
Examining perceptions and mental models
Enhancing energy sources
Working with conflict
Developing basic facilitation skills
This practical guide's special features include the newly updated seven norms of collaboration, a sample team assessment survey, instruments for assessing meeting effectiveness, an extensive bibliography, and practical examples embedded throughout the text. Practitioners will find a valuable road map for leading effective, student-focused school improvement efforts.
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This field book shows educators how to improve schools by developing group culture, enhancing facilitators' skills, and equipping groups to resolve complex issues around student learning.
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Introduction
I. Getting Work Done
1. Building Effective Groups
2. Understanding Group Roles
3. Examining Decision Making
4. Creating Focused Agendas
II. Developing Collaborative Communities
5. Forming Smarter Groups
6. Learning the Way Groups Talk
7. Challenging Mental Models
8. Working With Conflict
III. Developing a Sense of Community
9. Becoming a Self-Directed Group
10. Enhancing Energy Sources
IV. Developing Facilitation Skills
11. Developing Facilitation Skills
12. Learning the Language of Facilitation
13. Intervening Successfully
14. Setting up the Room
Conclusion
Appendix A: Large Group Room Configurations
Appendix B: Sample Inventory
Appendix C: Seven Norms of Collaboration: A Supporting Toolkit
Index
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"This is an easy to read book that includes research-supported strategies and tips to help educators use precious collaborative time to their best advantage." -- Dr. Kathy Grover, Assistant Superintendent"An informative read for school administrators. I recommend this book for anyone who organizes or facilitates a group of people in decision making." -- Pamela Maxwell, Principal"The authors provide teachers and leaders with the tools they need to make teacher group work effective and productive." -- Dr. Scott Hollinger, Executive Coach"The authors synthesize all the best research as well as extensive experience into a practical, easily understood and comprehensive guide for working effectively with groups. This book helps administrators to achieve maximum group participation and cohesion while maintaining the integrity of all involved." -- Dr. Roberta E. Glaser, (Ret.) Assistant Superintendent"This book provides the insights, conceptual foundation, precise language, and explicit processes about how groups work. The authors have an elegant and expanding understanding of the gestalt of the power, purpose, and energy of group work." -- Dr. Douglas Gordon Hesbol, School District Administrator"Those familiar with the theory of adaptive school should read this book. It provides a practical and effective approach to the development of group culture and collaborative groups." -- Dr. Roberto Pamas, Principal"Dr. Garmston's work provides potent tools that leaders in our local district use every day to propel student achievement forward. This book is theoretically sound and reality-based regarding the needs of schools and their leaders. This kind of work makes systems adaptive and ready to move students, parents, and leaders into the next era of learning and achievement." -- Roberto Antonio Martinez, Superintendent
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781412998895
Publisert
2012-06-13
Utgiver
Vendor
SAGE Publications Inc
Vekt
420 gr
Høyde
228 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
06, P
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
280