The Power of Protocols: An Educator's Guide to Better Practice

by Alan Dichter, Nancy Mohr, Elizabeth C. McDonald, et al.

Book Overview

The use of protocols has quickly spread from conferences and workshops to everyday school and university settings. Now in its third edition, this popular bestseller features substantial updates that... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807747696
• ISBN13: 9780807747698
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.4" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

never think protocols is a bad word again

This book offers lots of protocol formats that can be used to analyze work and for classroom instructional purposes. Must have book.

Using the Power of Protocols

This is an excellent book for educators, whether classroom teachers or professors such as myself. I use it constantly as a reference and include it in online learning environments as well.

Very powerful practices

Using the protocols in this volume do lead to better practice.Several years ago, I attended a series of training sessions conducted by the authors on using protocols in professional development situations and experienced the "power of protocols" first-hand. Since then, I have used them or variations in several ways that have lead to powerful insights for all involved. Most recently, in a graduate education course in technology use, my students (prospective or practicing teachers earning a Master's degree) used a modified version of the Tuning Protocol to give and receive feedback on their final projects. All the students commented on the contrast to typical final presentation sessions, and how this experience made them better listeners as presenters and audience members. We also used the Provocative Prompts protocol as a final class activity. I've used these protocols in working with teachers and administrators in schools. These protocols give people structured opportunties to talk, and to listen -- especially useful in situations of inherently unequal power, such as in meetings with a principal or district-level administator and teachers.This is an excellent addition to your library if you are a facilitator of any kind (principal, teacher educator, lead teacher, etc.) and is a good companion book to David Allen, Tina Blythe, and Barbara Schieffelin Powell's book "Looking Together At Student Work."