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

• Autore: Garmston Robert J
• Pubblicazione: Thousand Oaks, California, : Corwin, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xviii, 258 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 371.39/5
• Soggetto topico: Group work in education; Professional learning communities; Educational change; School improvement programs
• Altri autori: Von FrankValerie
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Unlocking group potential to improve schools
• ISBN: 9781452283838; 1452283834; 9781452279466; 1452279462; 9781452275499; 1452275491
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910959073603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II