Unlocking group potential to improve schools /

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 effect...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Garmston, Robert J.
Other Authors: Von Frank, Valerie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, California : Corwin, 2012
Series:Ebook Central Academic Complete Collection
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 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.