This Personalized Activity Kit deals with one aspect of preparation for group process, that of orienting members and obtaining consensus on basic issues prior to convening the group. The participants will learn the delphi technique and use it in a hypothetical situation. The delphi technique can facilitate the working of a group by familiarizing…

Situations in which group process breaks down are not uncommon. By organizing the group well, building relationships in which trust grows and makes open communication possible, many disruptive conflicts can be avoided. Still, when a blockage does occur, it is helpful to have group members trained to deal with the situation. The system used in…

The purpose of this Personalized Activity Kit (PAK) is to describe a leadership style in which leadership is less a matter of who holds what position or role and more a matter of each member performing the function needed by the group at any particular time. This style is called functional leadership. The PAK identifies two key functions essential…

The purpose of this Personalized Activity Kit is to help the participant develop skills in preparing validated needs from information that has already been collected. These skills include sifting out needs, solutions, and values from information statements and putting needs statements into useful formats. Instruction is also given in identifying…

The purpose of this Personalized Activity Kit is to help the participant develop the skills necessary to collect facts related to concerns already gathered. Specifically, these skills are methods for collecting a full range of facts and a means for sifting out the statements that are not true or valid. Guidelines and exercises for distinguishing…

The purpose of this Personalized Activity Kit is basically threefold. When the participant has performed the steps presented, he will have three products: (1) an improved statement of school goals, (2) a priority list of validated needs, and (3) an operational philosophy. Several steps are involved in developing each of these products,…

The group that is properly set-up and operating can save hours of group time. Once the group members know and trust one another it is necessary to identify the specific group tasks that need to be accomplished and to establish ground rules such as kind of meeting, meeting arrangements, expectations of members, and requirements for membership in…

This Personalized Activity Kit (PAK) deals with the procedures for selecting and organizing a representative school-community committee. Ways of analyzing the community are examined to provide a basis for the choice of the committee members. After completing this unit, the participant should have the skill necessary to select and organize a…

The School Improvement Process introduced by this Personalized Activity Kit (PAK) is designed specifically to help solve educational problems and to improve the quality of educational experiences provided for the learner through comprehensive planning and managed change. It is based on the scientific problem-solving method. The five stages of the…

This Personalized Activity Kit presents an overview of the steps in a student needs identification procedure. These steps will be more fully explained in a subsequent publication in this series. Student needs assessment focuses on refining goal statements and on the development of a set of valid priority needs. The concerns-analysis approach is…

This Personalized Activity Kit describes various ways to gather school/community concerns--questionnaires, student speak-outs, community concerns conferences, and interviews. A variety of methods should be used in gathering concerns. Concerns gathering usually begins with an identification of current district goals. From the list of goals, a…