It's Your Turn

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