Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Decisions and Goals
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a graphic organizer that will help students with goal setting. This graphic organizer with also help with understanding controversies, solving dilemmas, and making decisions.
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Mediate: Graphic Facilitation Focuses a Group's Thoughts
This article discusses what graphic facilitation is and how it can focus a group's thoughts and understanding. An example is provided showing how it resolved a conflict between two groups.
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Center for Teaching Excellence: Activities to Engage Students [Pdf]
This resource gives numerous strategies to engage students in different types of collaborative discussion.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Family Group Conferencing and Juvenile Justice
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand the use of Family Group Conferencing in juvenile justice systems.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Interpersonal or Systemic: When the Rules Are the Problem: Lesson 1
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand that in workplace or organizational settings, people think is interpersonal conflict sometimes is actually about organizational factors. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Why and How Do Humans Group?: Lesson 2
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand causes and dynamics of group formation. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Why and How do Humans Group?."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Addressing Communication Style Difference in Conflicts: Lesson 2
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will be able to use strategies and techniques for addressing communication style differences in conflict or conflict resolution situations.. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Addressing...
Biz Move
Biz Move: How to Be a Better Listener
Article on the importance of listening in the business setting. Explains what listening is, gives guidelines, and lists barriers.
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Center for Human Systems: Team Conflict How to Manage It
This site describes different kinds of conflict that occur in groups, and then it provides information on managing those conflicts. SL.11-12.1b Group Rules, SL.11-12.1d Resolve/Synthesize
Read Works
Read Works: An Urgent Message
[Free Registration/Login Required] This narrative nonfiction pieces shares how the Pony Express began. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for...
Mind Tools
Mind Tools: Problem Solving Skills
Discover the four basic steps in problem solving: defining the problem, generating alternatives, evaluating and selecting alternatives, and implementing solutions. The first step, defining the problem, is discussed in detail. Links to...
Colorado State University
Csu Writing Guides: Working in Groups
Resource includes helpful advice and information about working together and writing in groups (collaborative writing). Provides nodes on such topics as purpose, ideas, decision-making, and more.
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Getting to the Point With Interest Based Negotiations
This site defines interest-based negotiation, gives an example, and provides five good negotiation habits.
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Work 911: Cooperative Communication
This site defines "Cooperative Communication" and provides examples and information as to how to apply it. Although the article is geared toward the workplace, it applies to all forms of communication, especially when negotiating....
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Focusing on Interests Rather Than Positions Conflict
This site contains six rules to follow that will reduce conflict and increase cooperation when negotiating.
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Negotiation Styles in Mediation
This article presents five styles or methods most often used by negotiators and methods of dealing with each.
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Survival Tips on Robert's Rules of Order
This site provides tips and guides to following Robert's Rules of Order in a practical setting. Content addresses many of the issues that come to pass during committee meetings and summarizes how Robert's Rules of Order addresses each...
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Vancouver Community Net: The Citizen's Handbook: Facilitating
Offers tips to help facilitate a meeting effectively. Provides several important suggestions along with examples and details.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Scaffolding Comprehension Strategies Using Graphic Organizers
A three-part standards-based lesson in which students will use collaborative strategic reading to apply four reading strategies: preview, click and clunk, get the gist, and wrap-up. They will work in cooperative groups while scaffolding...
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Guidelines for Making the Program Work
The article provides guidelines that will help you avoid management problems.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Active Listening
The site descibes what active listening is and provides some links for further study.
University of California
Fifth Dimension: Following Directions Test
Two versions of a 12-question test to see if students can follow directions for simple procedures. Directions for administering the tests and answer keys are provided.
Other
Storytelling to Assess Speaking and Listening
An effective use of rubrics that encourages the student storyteller how to determine if his/her audience is listening. Learn about the different listening skill rubrics, storytelling rubrics and a self-assessment guide that asks the...
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Meetings That Deal With Conflict
The site provides guidelines for facilitating a meeting that deals with conflict.