The Art of Focused Conversation for Schools: Over 100 Ways to Guide Clear Thinking and Promote Learning

The Art of Focused Conversation for Schools: Over 100 Ways to Guide Clear Thinking and Promote Learning
ISBN-10
0865714355
ISBN-13
9780865714359
Category
Education / General
Pages
266
Language
English
Published
2001
Publisher
New Society Publishers
Authors
Jo Nelson, Canadian Institute of Cultural Affairs

Description

Why can't students do higher order thinking? Why do educators have endless staff meetings with few results? How can parents and teachers communicate better?

The Art of Focused Convers-ation for Schools demonstrates how the Focused Conversation method, widely used in organizations and businesses, can effectively be used in K-12 educational setting. Each section deals with interactions among students, staff, and parents and elaborates with 100 sample conversations designed to make learning more meaningful, prevent and solve problems, and make communications in meetings more effective. Appendices showcase integrated curriculum examples where conversations have been used in unique combinations and list sample questions for each level of the conversation method. A bibliography and index are also included.

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