1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786127003321

Autore

Garmston Robert J

Titolo

Unlocking group potential to improve schools / / Robert J. Garmston with Valerie von Frank ; foreword by Michael Fullan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, Calif., : Corwin, c2012

Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin, a SAGE Company, , [2012]

�2012

ISBN

1-4522-8383-4

1-4522-7946-2

1-4522-7549-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 258 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Gale eBooks

Disciplina

371.395

Soggetti

Group work in education

Professional learning communities

Educational change

School improvement programs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Building effective groups -- Understanding group roles -- Examining decision making -- Creating focused agendas -- Forming smarter groups -- Learning the way groups talk -- Challenging mental models -- Working with conflict -- Becoming a self-directed group -- Enhancing energy sources -- Developing facilitation skills -- Learning the language of facilitation -- Intervening successfully -- Setting up the room.

Sommario/riassunto

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.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910557244003321

Autore

Cruz Rambaud Salvador

Titolo

Intertemporal Choice and Its Anomalies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frontiers Media SA, 2019

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (88 p.)

Soggetti

Science: general issues

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact