This article originally was published by Teach Thought on September 23, 2018. It was written by Teacher Thought Staff and appears below in its original entirety including the images.
Staff meetings are often held at the end of the workday—a day that sees said inherently-energy-limited human beings perform an extremely demanding and mentally taxing job.
An underlying assumption of a staff meeting is that important information is going to be presented and explored. This means that teachers are going to interface with critical information at a time when they’re not at their best.
While we’ve long held that technology can be used to reduce the number and length of teacher staff meetings, in many states and districts there are actual requirements for how many hours a week or month teachers must meet and ‘be developed.’
One response has been ‘PD-style’ staff meetings that seek to kill two birds with one stone. The very least an administrator can do for teachers, it would seem, is to create a staff meeting that is actually useful for teachers that has a clear relationship to student learning.
But there are ways to spice up even the most bane staff meeting, and below infographic creator, Mia MacMeekin offers 27 ways to make your next staff meeting more interesting—and engaging—for teachers.
For a more colorful, visual arrangement of ways to engage teachers at a school staff meeting, see the full graphic below.