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Groups at Work
Strategies and Structures for Professional Learning
Fill your toolkit with effective strategies to own your processes, actions, and outcomes in professional learning group activities. The authors provide leaders with methods to design and prepare productive and efficient group meetings and interactions, regardless of place.
Benefits
- Receive clear directions for strategy application, including necessary materials, time frames, and group sizes.
- Experiment with strategies and design elements in low-risk situations to refine practices.
- Reduce preparation time by accessing ready-made recording sheet masters and PowerPoint slides.
- Discover tips for facilitation and collaboration, examples for use, and ideas for extensions.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Strategies for Activating
Strategies for Assessing, Goal Setting and Planning
Strategies for Dialogue and Discussion
Strategies for Generating Ideas
Strategies for Summarizing and Synthesizing
Strategies for Text and Information Processing
Structuring Group Work
Strategies for Forming Groups
POWERPOINT SLIDES
About the PowerPoint® slides:
Where appropriate, a space is provided on the slide to add information pertinent to a specific context or content. This option adds to flexibility of use. For example, you can add a topic, craft a question, provide a page number, or alter group size description to fit your own needs when matching a strategy to a group’s tasks and outcomes.
Groups at Work original slide layout and design © 2024 Laura Lipton and Bruce Wellman. No claim is made to any material added by users of the slide, and such material does not reflect the views, opinions, or advice of Solution Tree or the authors.
Strategies for Activating
- A-Z Listing
- Banned Words
- Bumper Stickers
- Create a Recipe
- Finding Common Ground
- First Word/Last Word
- Give One to Get One
- Go to Your Corners
- Grounding
- Group Resume
- Help Wanted Ads
- Just Like Me!
- Know/Think I Know/Want to Know
- Looking Back/Looking Ahead
- Paired Verbal Fluency
- Reflect, Regroup, Return
- Since Last We Met
- Synectics
- Think & Write/Pair & Share
Strategies for Assessing, Goal Setting and Planning
- Fishbone/Cause-Effect Diagrams
- Force Field Analysis
- Futures Wheel
- Got It! Need It!
- Here’s What!/So What?/Now What?
- If… Then…
- Moving Forward
- Outcome Mapping
- P+ M- I*
- Plan-a-Disaster
- Pluses and Wishes
- Spend-a-Buck
- T-Charts
- The Matrix
- Traffic Light
- Unpacking
- Windows and Mirrors
Strategies for Dialogue and Discussion
- Artifact Hunt
- Card Stack and Shuffle
- Compass Points
- Conflict Conversation Template
- Consensogram
- Consensus Clusters
- First Turn/Last Turn
- In and Out of the Frame
- Inter-VENN-tion
- Interview Carousel
- Mapping Highs and Lows
- Paraphrase Passport
- Three Step Interview
- What’s the Problem? What’s Not the Problem?
Strategies for Generating Ideas
- Brainstorm and Categorize
- Carousel Brainstorming
- Color Question Brainstorming
- Idea, Category, Web
- Round the Room and Back Again
- Sort Cards
Strategies for Summarizing and Synthesizing
- 3-2-1
- Elevator Speech
- Generate, Sort, Synthesize
- Invent an App
- Key Words
- Most Important Point
- One Word Summary
- Scrambled Sentences
- Snowball Fight
- Swap Meet
- Tweets
- Walk-About Survey
Strategies for Text and Information Processing
- A-B Each Teach
- Focused Reading
- Key Concepts, Key Ideas
- Prompt and Respond
- Read and Connect
- Read and Example
- Read-Share-Inquire
- Say Something
- Three A’s Plus One
- Words, Phrases, Sentences
RECORDING SHEETS
Strategies for Activating
Strategies for Assessing, Goal Setting and Planning
- Futures Wheel
- Got It! Need It!
- Here’s What!/So What?/Now What?
- If… Then…
- Moving Forward
- Outcome Mapping 1
- Outcome Mapping 2
- Outcome Mapping 3
- P+ M- I*
- T-Charts
- Traffic Light
- Unpacking
Strategies for Dialogue and Discussion
Strategies for Summarizing and Synthesizing
Strategies for Text and Information Processing
