Building Positive group Dynamics
COURSE DATES AND FEES
| COD. | Arrive |
Depart |
Fees |
| TPG 28 | 06/07/08 |
12/07/08 |
Euro 645 |
Who is this course for?
• Native and non-native teachers of English and other subjects
• Teacher trainers
• Mentors, supervisors and managers
• All those who work with groups
• You will need an upper intermediate to advanced level of English to participate in this course.
Course Summary
How often are we challenged in our teaching, facilitation, or leadership not because we don’t know our field of expertise, but because we are unsure of what makes groups work and how to bring about that precious quality: real work? Much of teaching and facilitation lies in the realm of the relational. Though little is written on this, it can be learnt and understood.
Drawing on insights from humanistic psychology and philosophy, this course will give names to what we intuitively know and handles to doors on areas of knowledge we have not yet opened. We shall explore the interpersonal skill of how we meet the individual’s real needs and our own. Insights gained give a practical underpinning to our objectives, planning and evaluating. Participants will have the opportunity to work with their own realities.
What are the key course contents?
•Topics include:
•Managing conflict and orchestrating difference
•Empowerment: contractual groupwork
•The skills of confrontation
•Understanding and changing interaction patterns : The Parent, •Adult and Child within
•The recognition and feedback cycle
•How quintessential needs are met through Time Structuring
•Developing your individual style of group leadership
Is this the right course for me?
• Yes - if you have ever sensed ‘subterranean forces’ underpinning or undermining groupwork and longed to know more
• Yes - if you want to use groupwork more effectively
• Yes - if you struggle to decide when and how to intervene in a group
• Yes - if ‘motivation’ and ‘uncooperative students’ are topics for you
• Yes - if you want to be more insightful in your design and assessment of groupwork activities
• Yes - if you want to create a group that supports learning for all
• Yes - if you have a level of English between upper-intermediate and native
If this is not the right course for you, please consider one of the following:
• NLP for Teachers - If you are interested in exploring Neuro-Linguistic Programming, “the study of excellence” and learning styles in more depth.
• Dealing with Difficult Learners – if you want to learn a variety of strategies and approaches which will help you teach “problem” students more effectively
• Life Affirming Leadership - if you want to develop more effective and creative leadership skills.
Recommended reading: Please note it is not necessary to buy or bring these books to the course.
•Transactional Analysis for Trainers” J. Hay (Sherwood Publishing) 1990
•The Red Book of Groups and How to Lead them Better” G. Houston (Rochester Foundation) 1990
•Classroom Dynamics.” J. Hadfield (OUP) 1992
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
Please contact our agent in Italy :
Addestramento linguistico professionale
Via Baertsch, 4
24124 Bergamo
Tel. 035 363325
Fax 035 3694 091
Email info@corsidiinglese.it
http://www.corsidiinglese.it
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
Please contact our agent in Italy :
Addestramento linguistico professionale
Via Baertsch, 4
24124 Bergamo
Tel. 035 363325
Fax 035 3694 091
Email info@corsidiinglese.it
http://www.corsidiinglese.it
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