Resources
A Facilitator's Book of Questions:
Resources for Looking Together at Student and Teacher Workby
David Allen
Tina BlytheForeword by Gene Thompson-Grove
Teachers College Press, 2003
Available Late Winter 2004
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David Allen is a researcher at the National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools, and Teaching (NCREST), Teachers College, Columbia University. He has worked at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education, and the Coalition of Essential Schools, Brown University, on projects related to collaborative teacher inquiry, looking at student work, and authentic assessment. He is the editor of Assessing Student Learning: From Grading to Understanding (Teachers College Press, 1998), co-author (with Tina Blythe and Barbara S. Powell) of Looking Together at Student Work (Teachers College Press, 1999), and a co-author of Questioning Practices: The Case for Inquiry into Student and Teacher Work (Teachers College Press, 2004.). He has taught English and ESL at middle school, high school, and college levels. In 1996, he received a Fulbright research grant to study school reform in Poland.
Tina Blythe has been a researcher with Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education since 1988. She has focused on professional development, teacher inquiry, and collaborative assessment of student work, as well as curriculum and instruction that emphasizes learning for understanding in both classrooms and afterschool programs. She has taught middle school, high school, and university courses. She currently teaches in the faculty development program of the Boston Architectural Center. She is the principal author of The Teaching for Understanding Guide (Jossey-Bass, 1998) and co-author (with David Allen and Barbara S. Powell) of Looking Together at Student Work (Teachers College Press, 1999). She has collaborated on a number of other books and articles, including Fun Learning Matters: Doing Projects in Afterschool Programs (The After-School Corporation, 2001); and Questioning Practices: The Case for Inquiry into Teacher and Student Work (Teachers College Press, 2004).
Gene Thompson-Grove has been Co-Director of the National School Reform Faculty (NSRF), a national program begun at the Annenberg Institute for School Reform and now housed at the Harmony Education Center in Bloomington, Indiana, from 1995 to the present. NSRF works with educators to create and sustain professional learning communities in their schools through Critical Friends Group (CFG) and other programs. Through NSRF, she coordinates the national Looking at Student Work Collaborative. She is also one of the developers of the Looking at Student Work web site (www.lasw.org), is the author of the Consultancy protocol, and has written various other protocols and support materials for studying student work collaboratively. In addition to her work with NSRF, Thompson-Grove works with several reform organizations and school districts and facilitates national and regional seminars on examining student work collaboratively, understanding school culture, creating professional communities in schools, and engaging in collaborative inquiry.
Reprinted by permission of the publisher from Allen, D. & Blythe, T., THE FACILITATOR'S BOOK OF QUESTIONS: TOOLS FOR LOOKING TOGETHER AT STUDENT AND TEACHER WORK, (New York: Teachers College Press, © 2004 by Teachers College, Columbia University. All rights reserved.). To order copies, please contact Teachers College Press at www.tcpress.com.