Saturday, September 13, 2008

Influencing V

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Confrontation:
You work behind the scenes with a group of parents, encouraging
them to protest about the students' poor reading achievement.
They take their protest to a school board meeting. (Use
only if you have used mass media twice.)
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Influencing IV

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Demonstration:
You invite the staff into a particular teacher's classroom
(an adopter's!) to see peer tutoring in action.
Training Workshop (Self): You conduct an in-service workshop which
trains teachers in the operational details of setting up and
carrying on a peer tutoring program in their classrooms.
Training Workshop (Prof): You arrange to have Professor Portney
of Centralia Teachers college conduct an in-service workshop
on "Peer Tutoring: Its Role in Student Self-Development."
Materials Workshop: You conduct an inservice workshop in which teachers
team up to develop creative materials-games, flash-cards,
etc. for student tutor use.
Local Mass Media: You arrange to be interviewed about peer tutoring
by a reporter from the local Eyewitness News program.
Compulsion:
You persuade the principal to issue a memo directing all teachers
to institute some form of peer tutoring in their classrooms
next year. (Use only if the principal has adopted the
innovation.)
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Influencing III

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Diffusion
Activities
DIFFUSION
ACTIVITY
Talk To: You make a conscious effort, over a period of about one week, to engage any ONE person in a number of one to one conversations.
Ask Help: You ask any ONE of the staff for advice or for help in one of your projects... preparing some learning materials, setting up a demonstration, running a workshop, etc.
Pilot Test: You attempt to influence ONE teacher by asking to
let you conduct an informal pilot test of peer tutoring with
his/her students.
Site Visit: You
select any FIVE persons to visit Lighthouse School, in the
next state, where an exemplary tutoring program is in progress.
Print:
You circulate a brochure describing the many advantages
of peer tutoring to any FIVE persons.
Presentation:
You get on the agenda of a regularly scheduled staff meeting
to explain about peer tutoring and encourage discussion about
it.
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Influencing Game II

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Information
COSTINFORMATION
1
week
Personal: Find out what sort of people the staff members are.
1
week

Lunchmates:
Observe
carefully to see who lunches with whom each noon.

1
week
Committees:
Find out who are members of the various formal committees
set up in the school.
2
weeks

Social:
Observe the out-of-school social patterns to learn who
plays poker together, who bowls together, etc.

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Influencing Game


Colunas: Awareness, Interest, Trial/Appraisal, Adoption

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Wild Things: The Most Extreme Creatures | LiveScience

Wild Things: The Most Extreme Creatures | LiveScience: "Toxitolerant organisms can withstand high levels of damaging agents. They can be found swimming around in benzene saturated water or in the core of a nuclear reactor.

One species of bacteria, Deinococcus radiodurans, can withstand a 15,000 gray dose of radiation - 10 grays would kill a human and it takes over 1,000 grays to kill a cockroach."