It's Your Turn (Teachers as Facilitators-A Handbook (Build confidence and competence as a teacher-facilitator))

In It’s Your Turn, authors Robert Garmston and Carolyn McKanders increase the confidence and competence of teacher-facilitators while mitigating the challenges and tensions they face. Educators using this handbook will learn to use language that conveys positive intentions and stimulates a group’s work, authentically gain trust, improvise when plans falter, and understand the importance of diversity within groups.

This book will help teacher-facilitators:

• Gain confidence in leading groups and meetings
• Receive tips to make group members feel accepted and safe
• Learn how to improvise when things don’t go as planned
• Understand the benefits of diverse groups
• Consider how problems can be opportunities for positive change

Contents:
Prologue
Introduction: Mindsets and Meetings—Navigate With Empowering Mindsets
Chapter 1: See a Group as It Could Be—You Must Perceive It to Achieve It
Chapter 2: Groups Grant Consent—Get Permission to Lead
Chapter 3: Prepare . . . Don’t Attach—Your Responses Are More Important
Interlude
Chapter 4: Diversity Enriches—Inclusion Makes Groups Smarter
Chapter 5: Never Let a Conflict Go to Waste—Liberate Opportunities
Addendum A: Virtual Presence—Generalizations
Addendum B: Giving Clear Directions Is Not as Simple as It Looks
References and Resources
Index

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