The Facilitator's Book of Questions: Tools for Looking Together at Student and Teacher Work

by David Allen, Tina Blythe, Gene Thompson-Grove (Foreword by)

This book of protocols is an essential tool for facilitators of groups working together to examine 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 collaborative review and provides some of the most effective strategies for successful collaboration.

Genres: Education, Professional Development, Teaching

160 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2004

Reviews

[Kathleen · Rating 3 out of 5]

This will be a handy book for me to hold onto, but I wouldn't buy it as my intro to Critical Friends or NSFR protocols. The protocols are powerful tools for facilitation, but I would just choose another entry point--like the website...

[Nina · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting resource for facilitator's, though a bit wooden. The book assumes already a bit of a background in facilitation.

[Skylar Hatfield · Rating 3 out of 5]

The most easily digestible book about facilitation teams that I have read so far.

[Marcy · Rating 4 out of 5]

As a facilitator of adults, I want to improve my facilitating and know how to "move" comfortably from one portion of a protocol to another and ask probing questions off the cuff that keep the conversation moving forward. Gene Thompson-Grove is the protocol guru in Brookline. I am studying her techniques and am awed by the ease in which she keeps any group moving forward to delve deeply into one's practice. This book did not help me as I hoped it would. I think that "observing" more groups will eventually help me ask the pertinent questions...

[Margaret · Rating 5 out of 5]

Because sometimes it's the right question that leads to smart solutions.