Author: David AllenPublisher: Teachers College Press
ISBN: 0807775460
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Making Questions Work
Author: Dorothy StrachanPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118047273
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This book is an invaluable desk reference for facilitators, leaders, coaches and anyone who wants to engage in more effective learning and decision-making conversations. It offers over 1700 rich questions that you can borrow or adapt to improve your inquiry skills, and provides clear frameworks that point to when, where, and why particular questions are most useful.
The Facilitator's Book of Questions
Author: David AllenPublisher: Teachers College Press
ISBN: 0807744689
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
This book is an essential tool for facilitators of groups using protocols, or structured conversations, to collaboratively review student and teacher work. A follow-up to Looking Together at Student Work and Assessing Student Learning, this resource considers the purposes for engaging in collborative review and provides some of the most effective strategies for using protocols to support successful group work. The text includes activities that facilitators can use to apply the frameworks and resources provided in this book.
Facilitating for Learning
Author: David AllenPublisher: Teachers College Press
ISBN: 0807774383
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
“I have had the good fortune to watch both David and Tina facilitate learning groups and have learned from the power of their modeling. . . . I am delighted that they have gathered their wisdom here in this volume to share with others eager to embark on the journey and experience the joys of facilitating learning with colleagues.” —From the Foreword by Ron Ritchhart, senior research associate, Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education One of the most important shifts in schools in the last two decades has been the growing emphasis on collaboration among teachers and other educators. Whether you are a teacher facilitating a group for the first time or an experienced facilitator seeking to further develop your skills, this book is for you. Organized to be used as both an exploration of the role of facilitating and as a handbook of strategies, this resource covers a range of contexts that include faculty meetings, department meetings, professional learning communities, grade-level teams, and inquiry groups. This book is a perfect companion to the authors’ bestseller, The Facilitator’s Book of Questions, which focuses on the skills needed to facilitate protocols or structured conversations. Facilitating for Learning extends the scope of that work by also examining the facilitator’s responsibilities for supporting a group’s learning during all parts of a meeting, between meetings, and within the larger school context and culture. It is an essential resource for teachers, administrators, coaches, and teacher educators. Book Features: Contrasts facilitating for learning with other professional development roles, including staff development, coaching, and supervision.Outlines the basic responsibilities and tasks of facilitating teacher learning groups, including “moves” the facilitator might employ.Considers challenges related to school culture and leadership, group interactions, and time constraints.Provides resources to help facilitators develop their skills, including tools and references to other works on facilitation.
The Facilitator Era
Author: Tom SteffenPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1621891917
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Some time ago, Ralph Winter brilliantly identified three eras of modern missions: Era 1: William Carey focused on the coastlands; Era 2: Hudson Taylor focused on the inlands; Era 3: Donald McGavran and Cameron Townsend focused on unreached peoples. With all the fast and furious changes swirling around us today in twenty-first century missions, have we entered a Fourth Era? If so, who are the people primarily involved? How are they selected? How are they trained? How long do they serve? Has the Third Era ministry focus--reaching the unreached--changed? If so, to what? Are there any successful case studies out there? Have McGavran and Townsend passed the baton to a new leader(s)? If so, to whom? This book seeks to answer these and related questions. Contributors: Dr. Ben Beckner Dr. Monroe Brewer Dr. Don Finley Mike Griffis Dr. Gary Hipp, MD Jerry Hogshead Kaikou Maisu Judy Manna Kenn Oke Dr. A. Sue Russell Dr. Robert Strauss Peter Swann Bryan Thomas Diane Thomas Dr. Mike Wilson Dr. Sherwood G. Lingenfelter
Ask Powerful Questions
Author: Will WisePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781545322994
Category : Communication
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
What is revealed when you authentically connect with the people around you?In Ask Powerful Questions, Will Wise explains how the questions we traditionally ask are virtually meaningless when it comes to establishing connection. Introducing a set of practical tools for accessing and understanding others by changing the way we ask questions, Will shows how to transform "How are you?-I'm fine, thanks" into a conversation that changes not only how you lead, but who you are as a person. It took years of research, university teaching, and hundreds of client projects for Will to formulate his concept behind the art of asking powerful questions. In his book, Will breaks it down into six simple steps for all of us to be able to understand. The Asking Powerful Questions Pyramid(tm) shows you how to build: Intention Rapport Openness Listening Empathy Business professionals, personal coaches, teachers and anyone in a position of leadership will relate to the personal successes and failures Will shares as he unpacks the art of asking questions that elicit unconventional answers. Powerful questions can be used everywhere: from the board room to the city park, the dinner table to the grocery store. If you want to connect with employees at a team building retreat, hone your leadership skills as a new boss, improve the company culture where you work...this book is for you. If you want to navigate difficult conversations with your spouse or a friend, or practice presence-based listening with your kids...this book is for you. If you want to become a better educator and facilitate an ice breaker conversation with colleagues...this book is for you. Ask Powerful Questions invites the reader on a journey that explores: the clarity of intent, connecting through rapport, creating openness, reflective listening, and empathy. How can we explore the space between ourselves and others, and exchange meaningful perspectives? Just ask-powerfully.
Playing Big
Author: Tara MohrPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 0091958784
Category : Success
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
"At last. At last this very important book has been written... It will empower legions of women to step into their greatness.' ELIZABETH GILBERT, author of EAT, PRAY, LOVE 'One of the most important books in my life. If you want to achieve anything, or simply be less stressed, this book will help you do it. In it you will find your voice, your ability, your self-confidence and perhaps even your mission in life. Buy it. Pass it on.' SHIRLEY CONRAN The groundbreaking book that gives every woman the practical skills they need to begin PLAYING BIG. Five years ago, Tara Mohr began to see a pattern in her work as an expert in leadership: women with tremendous talent, ideas and aspiration were not recognising their own brilliance. They felt that they were playing small' in their lives and careers and wanted to play bigger', but didn't know how. And so Tara devised a step-by-step programme for playing big from the inside out: this book is the result. Many women are aware of the changes they need to make to be more successful, but they don't know how to become that more confident woman they'd like to be. Playing Big provides real, practical to
Facilitators' guide book for farmers field schools
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9251097321
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
This document offers technical guidance in establishing and managing farmers' field schools and supporting local farmers in rice crop management, from testing soil texture and seedling preparation to water management and yield calculation.
Quest - Men: Facilitator Book
Author: The Significance ProjectPublisher: The Significance Project
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
Note: This laptop is best viewed on a large screen. Are you looking for a unique way to reach men and share Christ with them? QUEST is a personal development discovery course for men which is done in a life-coaching, small group environment. You can use QUEST in your neighborhood, on your campus, in your office, or with friends or family. In the course men identify and celebrate their uniqueness, consider their life foundation and discover their direction in life as they pursue their personal life design. QUEST is easy to facilitate. The Facilitator Guide equips you to facilitate the content of each page. Additional input and instructions are included in the Facilitator Instructions section. When inviting men, you will want to explain that this course covers all areas of life—vocational, relational, spiritual, financial, social and physical—and that you will be sharing from your life, including what you are learning in these areas and they will be asked to share from their own lives. The authors also share stories. One shares about being himself in the face of the expectations of others, one about his life-foundation as a Christian, one about having so much to do and not being able to focus, etc. The value-added course allows men to have personal life-coaching in a supportive environment. *If you are using ebooks and printed books in a group, the content is the same but a few page numbers are different. Use the graphics and the content titles to be on the same page. For free Life-coaching Tool templates (once you have purchased the ebook) please email The Significance Project at [email protected]. Please include a copy or picture of your order.
The Effective Facilitator's Handbook
Author: Cathy A. TollPublisher: ASCD
ISBN: 1416631704
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
A one-stop shop to answer your most pressing questions about what it takes to facilitate. Workshops, committees, teams, and study groups are a regular part of an educator's professional life, and any educator can find themselves in the facilitator role, with a responsibility to aid the group in achieving its goals. The Effective Facilitator's Handbook is here to help. Professional development expert Cathy A. Toll has written a guide for busy facilitators, starting with four simple rules for successful facilitation: listen, start with the end in mind, lead with productive tools, and stay organized. The processes, tools, and templates in each chapter are easy to apply and offer advice about how to create a welcoming environment, set the right tone, understand the group's dynamics, improve communication, and more. This book walks you through the unique purposes, pitfalls, and needs of specific types of groups, whether it's a professional development workshop, a committee focused on one decision or problem, a team that regularly collaborates for student success, or a study group learning about a specific issue. But Toll also considers the bigger picture and connects the patterns behind different types of facilitation skills that will serve you in a variety of situations and settings. As an effective facilitator, you'll be able to increase the value of group time, foster engagement, and help teachers improve their practice so that they can bring their best to the classroom each day.
