Post your list of Top Ten Facilitation Skills, including a brief rationale for each item on your list. Identify the
skills about which you feel most confident and those that you most need to improve. Seek advice from your Walden
colleagues about how you might grow and develop your skills. Finally, share your evaluation of the facilitation skills
you observed in the Tuning Protocol Meeting and how they contributed to the group’s work. Be sure to include information
from this week’s Learning Resources to support your ideas.
Facilitators of professional development need to know their audience, the culture, and the goals of the group in order to
plan effective professional learning activities. An effective facilitator has a variety of skills and strategies to adapt
and apply with different types of groups and for different purposes. For example, consider how the skills that you need
as a facilitator might be different for conducting a staff meeting versus a small focus-group meeting. At times, coaching
is appropriate; at times, building a culture first is critical. As you complete your assignments this week, think about
various contexts in which you might use and modify different facilitation skills and strategies.
If you have not already begun to do so, take a moment to compile your list of “Top Ten Facilitation Skills” based on this
week’s Learning Resources. Write a 1- to 2-sentence rationale that captures the importance of each skill for effective
facilitation. In which area(s) do you feel most confident related to these skills and in which area(s) do you most need
to learn and develop?
Next, bring to mind the “Tuning Protocol Meeting” segment, consider the importance of the facilitator’s role in that
meeting, and evaluate how the facilitator’s skills and use of strategies contributed to the effectiveness of the meeting.
Which skills on your “Top Ten” list did you observe in the meeting?
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Learning Resources
This page contains the Learning Resources for this week. Be sure to scroll down the page to see all of this week’s
assigned Learning Resources. To access select media resources, please use the media player below.
Required Resources
• Course Text: The Adaptive School: A Sourcebook for Developing Collaborative Groups
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o Chapter 6, “Designing Time-Efficient and Effective Meetings”
o Chapter 7, “The Confident and Skilled Facilitator”
Note: As you read this chapter, make a list of important facilitation skills. You will create and share a “Top Ten
Facilitation Skills” list with your Walden colleagues in this week’s Discussion.
o Appendix A, “Strategies: A Process Toolkit for Facilitators and Teams”
Read the “How to Use This Appendix” section and peruse strategies throughout the appendix. As you do so, consider the
various contexts in which the strategies would be appropriate.
Note: You will use at least one of the strategies provided in Appendix A to help you facilitate a meeting with your
school-based team for this week’s Application.
Course Text: Becoming a Learning School (Companion CD)
o Tool 14.1, “8 Smooth Steps”
Note: This article presents an eight-step evaluation process for professional development efforts and provides an
important frame of reference as you plan to work with your school-based team this week. While you are encouraged to read
the entire article, you are only required to read through page 19 for this week’s assignments. You will learn more about
the evaluation of professional development in subsequent courses.
Article: Little, C. A., & Paul, K. A. (2009). Weighing the workshop: Assess the merits with six key criteria for
planning and evaluating. Journal of Staff Development, 30(5), 26-30.
Reprinted with permission from NSDC/Learning Forward.
Media
• ASCD Course Media: “Tuning Protocol Meeting”
Used by permission from ASCD. All rights reserved.
Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 30 minutes.
Dr. Lois Easton facilitates a tuning protocol meeting.
Note: As you view, pay attention to the various roles of the facilitator during the meeting. You will share your
observations with your colleagues in this week’s Discussion.
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Optional Resources
• Course Text: The Adaptive School: A Sourcebook for Developing Collaborative Groups
o Chapter 5, “Conducting Successful Meetings”
Website: Public Schools of North Carolina: Presentation Skills
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/profdev/presentation/
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