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    Preface / Acknowledgments
    1. Make a Difference:
    Present to Transform
    Be a Guide
    You and the New Professional Development
    Wear Four Professional Hats
    Make Your Presentation A Gift
    Present to Groups Experiencing Change
    Consult Before You Present
    Summary
    2. How to Design Persuasive Presentations
    Develop a Designer's Mind
    Prepare the Room
    Decide What Content Is Most Important
    Tame The Content-Process Teeter-Totter
    Use Organizers To Save Preparation Time
    Give a 2-Minute Speech Design Effective Follow-Up
    Summary
    3. How To Deliver Effective Presentations
    How to Open
    Do's and Don'ts of Humor
    Speaking to Parents and Other Audiences
    How To Maintain Momentum Even In Slow Downs
    Eight Strategies to Keep Your Audience Tuned In
    How to Keep Them Awake and Learning After Lunch
    Respond to Questions and Maintain Your Credibility
    How to Teach Triple Tracks
    When and How to Close
    Summary
    4. The New Science of Non Verbal Skills, Kendall Zoller
    Why Blind Children Gesture
    Influencing Information Flow
    Influencing Energy Transfer
    Affecting Memory
    Creating Psychological Safety
    Summary
    5. How to Work With Special Situations
    Presentation as Theater: Using Sets and Props
    Make Nervousness Work for You
    Why the Listening Presenter Is Asked Back
    How To Avoid Unintended Offense
    How to Speak Globally, Even to Local Audiences
    Ways to Redirect Resistance
    Brilliantly Co-Present Your First Time Out
    Summary
    6. To See Is to Retain, Michael Buckley
    Create Graphics With Ease and Confidence
    PowerPoint Tips and Traps
    Summary
    7. Epilogue: Why Cats Have Clean Paws-Myths About External Feedback Myths About Feedback What Is Self-Directed Learning? Appendixes
    A: Five States of Mind
    B: Sample Client Materials List for Multiday Workshop
    C: How Instruments Personalize and Motivate
    D: Room Arrangement
    E: Guidelines for Preparing a Written Report
    References / About the Authors / Index



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    Preface
    By Robert H. Anderson,
    University of South Florida
    Foreword
    By Carl D. Glickman,
    Chair, Program for School Improvement, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
    I. Discovering the Meanings of Cognitive Coaching
    1. Exploring the Meanings of Cognitive Coaching
    2. Coaching As Mediation
    3. The Mediator's Toolbox
    4. Developing and Maintaining Trust
    II. Sources of Excellence
    1. States of Mind
    2. Cognition and Instruction
    3. Inquiring into the Knowledge Base of Teaching and Learning
    4. Resolving Problems: Accessing Internal Resources
    III. Engaging in Coaching
    1. Navigating Coaching Maps
    2. Human Variability in Meaning Making
    3. Repertoire of Support Functions
    IV. Integrating Cognitive Coaching Throughout the System
    1. Integrating the Ideals of Cognitive Coaching
    2. Research on Cognitive Coaching
    3. Toward Educational Renaissance
    Appendixes
    I: What Teachers Want Observed
    II: Mediative Questioning
    III: Applying Principles of Constructivism
    IV: Transcript of a Coaching Cycle
    V: Glossary



A new edition of the guidebook that has helped thousands of your colleagues improve their presentations - whether as a speaker in front of other educators or as a teacher in front of the class!
The Presenter's Fieldbook:
A Practical Guide Second Edition
Robert Garmston, Professor Emeritus, School of Education, California State University, Sacramento and director of Facilitation Associates

Here's the ideal guidebook for all of us who have ever had to stand up in front of a group and make a presentation - novices and experts alike! It's a practical, hands-on resource full of ideas and success-proven strategies that not only put you at ease when you're the focus of everyone's attention, but actually help you improve the effectiveness of your presentations, whoever your audience.

You'll refer to this self-help guide over and over again as you learn to present, strengthen your presentation skills, or improve the effectiveness of your instruction. The many step-by-step guidelines help you organize your presentation (everything from designing the room layout to ordering the events and information), customize your presentation, and make it right on target for your audience. And many of the ideas are perfect for working with perhaps your most important audience - your K-16 students.

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If you are among the thousands who have used the first edition of this guide, you'll especially appreciate the many fresh new topics, like speaking to groups with different languages and cultures, tips and traps for using Power-Point, "stealable" examples of presentation strategies, and speaking globally. There are also guest chapters by Kendall Zoller, who gives you state-of-the-art information on how to use nonverbal skills to lift energy, enhance memory, and improve focus and information flow and by Michael Buckley, who shows you how to prepare effective and professional looking visual aids and graphics that reinforce your message. Another topic addresses how everyone has a racial identity, and gives tips for presenters on the topic.

2005 Just Published Paperbound 244pp ISBN: 1-929024-88-6 Order #1007B $35.95


Cognitive Coaching:
A Foundation for Renaissance Schools
Second Edition
Arthur L. Costa, Professor Emeritus, California State University, Sacramento and Co-Founder, Institute for Intelligent Behavior, El Dorado Hills, CA

Robert J. Garmston, Professor Emeritus, California State University, Sacramento and Executive Director, Facilitation Associates

In this greatly expanded and extensively updated edition of a widely popular resource you see how teachers' individual and collective capacities for continuing self-improvement are strengthened over time through Cognitive Coaching. You gain essential skills, protocols, guidance, research and resources to use when implementing Cognitive Coaching principles and values in your own school setting.

Toward the goals of making schools better places where more students succeed and satisfaction in learning and teaching prevail, Costa and Garmston let you know about their own learning, and how new research and practice can support individuals and schools in reaching higher, more satisfying, and more holistic performance. Organized into four sections, the book makes the concepts clear!

You see clearly the meanings of cognitive coaching . . . you learn the basics of teaching excellence . . . you get strategies and tactics for engaging in coaching . . . and you see how to integrate Cognitive Coaching throughout the system . . .

2002 Hardbound 350pp ISBN: 1-929024-41-X Order # 1002B $65.95


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    Preface
    Foreword, Renate Nummela Caine
    and Geoffrey Caine
    How to Use This Book
    Options and Possibilities
    Organization
    Problem Based User's Guide
  1. What Is An Adaptive School?
    Learning from the New Sciences
    The History of School Change
    "Thing" and "Energy" Models of the World
    End Notes
  2. The Importance of Professional Community
    Professional Learning and Student Learning
    Elements of Professional Communities
    Developing Teachers' Professional Communities
    Simple Rules Govern Complex Behavior
  3. Developing Collaborative Norms
    Four Group Member Capabilities
    Seven Norms of Collaboration
    Endnotes
  4. Two Ways of Talking That Make a Difference for Student Learning
    The Path of Dialogue
    The Path of Discussion
    End Notes
  5. Conducting Successful Meetings
    How Mature is Your Group?
    End Notes
  6. The Confident and Skilled Facilitator
    The Expert Facilitator's Knowledge Base
    Knowledge of Self
    Who is Your Client
    Knowledge of Facilitation Tools
    Manage Energy
    Facilitator Strategies That Help a Group Manage Actions
    Facilitation Strategies That Help A Group
  7. Designing Time Efficient and Effective Meetings
    Have Clear Outcomes
    Have a Task-Analysis Based Plan
    Achieve the Outcome
    Have a Repertoire of Agenda
    Formats
    End Notes
  8. Templates and Tools for Developing Collaborative Groups
    Premises Regarding Group Development
    Six Domains of Group Development
    A Systems Approach for Developing Groups
    The Indelible Importance of Identity
    Changing Beliefs and Challenging Mental Models
    Five Special Capabilities: Where Intervene
    End Notes
  9. Using Conflict as a Resource How to Double Your CQ (Conflict Quotient)
    End Notes
  10. Working With Unmanageable Problems
    Four Key Terms
    Developing and Implementing Rigorous Content Standards
    Additional Tools for Wicked Problems
    Action Planning
    End Notes
  11. Capacities for School Change
    Organizational Capacities for Adaptivity
    Professional Capacities Adaptivity
    End Notes
  12. Community Doesn't Just Happen
    Principles of Community
    Widening Our View
    End Notes
    Appendix

















The tools you need to effect productive school change.
The Adaptive School:
A Sourcebook for Developing Collaborative Groups

Robert J. Garmston and Bruce M. Wellman

For a wealth of specific tools you can use immediately to develop collective understanding ... make decisions ... respond to conflict ... and develop high performance groups, turn to this authoritative guide.
1999 Hardbound 308pp ISBN 0-926842-91-9 Order #1010 $65.95


The Presenter's Fieldbook:
A Practical Guide
1st edition still available

Robert J. Garmston

Become an expert presenter using the secrets of master presenters in this easy-to-read book! Robert Garmston shows you how a presentation, seminar, or workshop can have an extraordinary impact on participant learning and organization work cultures.
1997 Paperbound 225pp ISBN 0-926842-65-X Order #1007 $32.95

 
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Table of Contents
    The Presenter's Fieldbook: A Practical Guide
    Preface
    How to Present When You Wish to Transform
    How to Design Effective Presentations
    How to Deliver Effective Presentations
    How to Add Heart and Punch Through Stories
    The Guide's Key to Special Situations and Resources
    Postscript
    Print References
    Index







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