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HI

Depends if you are talking specifically about facilitation skills or
facilitating groups in classrooms....slightly different

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Pure Facilitation

For pure facilitation and good book to start is ³Managing Facilitated
Process² by Dorothy Strachan and Marian Piiters

Other books of interests

The IAF Handbook of Group Facilitation ­ a dense tome...very complete....not
the most user friendly
The Facilitator's Handbook by Thomas Justice and David Jamieson
Making Questions Work by Dorothy Strachan ­ interesting book presents
different lines of questioning to achieve various different end.....I have
to admit the first time I read the book I didn¹t get it---but it is now
invaluable when I am designing a facilitation

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For Classroom Facilitation

I complete agree with Gary about Stephen Brookfield and Stephen Preskill's
Discussion as a way of teaching: tools and techniques for democratic
classrooms. >>>>GREAT BOOK, STEPHEN BROOKFIELD IS ALWAYS SUCH A TREAT TO
READ

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0787978086/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=t0538-20&ca
mp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0787978086&adid=0J7C2K1MF
DMES6TD9MX7&

I also like The Art of Focused Conversation by Stanfield....present a very
compelling discussion model that I use all the time

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0865714169/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=t0538-20&ca
mp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0865714169&adid=17B7WC88F
2S4DGSSQPFC&

If I was to pick a book to teach from it would definitely be
Brookfield/Preskill¹s

Jim



From: Gary Kapelus <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:43:18 -0400
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Subject: Re: A good book on group facilitation?

A great and practical soft cover book on the topic is Small Group Teaching:
A Trouble-Shooting Guide, by Richard Tiberius, 2nd Edition 1999, Kogan Page
Press, UK, ISBN 0 7494 2896 1
 
Also Stephen Brookfield and Stephen Preskill's Discussion as a way of
teaching: tools and techniques for democratic classrooms. 2nd Ed 2005. Josey
Bass ISBN-10  0 7879 7808 6
Both should be available through Amazon
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From: Team-Based Learning [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Sweet, Michael S [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: October 5, 2011 6:43 PM
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Subject: A good book on group facilitation?

Friends,
 
I am being asked to help design a class in Facilitating Group Process for an
Adult Education program.
 
Of course TBL will be a continual thread throughout the course, but I need a
CONTENT source that is about group process and effective facilitation.
(I.e., something to write RAP questions on that is a little broader in
context than one of the TBL books.)
 
All of my Group Dynamics texts are old and a little too theoretical.  I
haven¹t hit Amazon yet‹I thought I¹d go to the Source of wisdom on matters
like this first:  the TBL community.
 
Can anyone recommend a book that I might consider as a text for a class like
this?
 
Any advice will be much appreciated!
 
-M
 
 
Michael Sweet, Ph.D.
Director of Instructional Development, Center for Teaching and Learning
MAI 2206  |  Mail Stop G2100  |  (512) 232-1775  |  http://ctl.utexas.edu