How great groups make great schoolsTraining 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.
- ISBN10 1452283834
- ISBN13 9781452283838
- Publish Date 19 April 2012
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Corwin Publishers
- Format eBook
- Pages 280
- Language English