8 thoughts on “5 Ideas for Switching Up Your Staff Meetings”
These are terrific ideas for more useful faculty meetings, Rich. When an administrator is doing all the talking, a meeting doesn’t take advantage of all the knowledge sharing that can occur. My favorite faculty meetings begin with the first 10 minutes being taken up with teachers sharing an instructional strategy that works best for them. If you have ten attendees who share, you come away with 10 great ideas.
Perhaps the ideal is that faculty meetings start looking more like Edcamps (no affiliation): http://www.edcamp.org/organize
These are terrific ideas for more useful faculty meetings, Rich. When an administrator is doing all the talking, a meeting doesn’t take advantage of all the knowledge sharing that can occur. My favorite faculty meetings begin with the first 10 minutes being taken up with teachers sharing an instructional strategy that works best for them. If you have ten attendees who share, you come away with 10 great ideas.
Perhaps the ideal is that faculty meetings start looking more like Edcamps (no affiliation): http://www.edcamp.org/organize
Take care, -Todd
Thank you for the positive feedback! We ran our own District Edcamp this past year! You may be interested in these posts: https://fouroclockfaculty.com/2015/02/reflections-from-edcamp/
https://fouroclockfaculty.com/2015/02/planning-a-district-edcamp/