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Sunday 9 September 2012

Engaging meetings

Managing meetings or other training sessions so that they are valuable CPD for all attendees can be difficult, but learning for adults is a similar process as for our students - and we would never dream of asking students to sit for an hour listening to us reading out a PowerPoint!

The same techniques you use to enthuse and engage your learners in the classroom can be used to structure meetings to ensure participation from all those taking part.

Have a look at the activity on group work that I posted on discussion work and try and incorporate one of these ideas, or any of the group work activities you use in your lessons to engage everyone at the meeting you are involved in for one of the agenda points. You could even think about differentiating the groups to make them mixed ability if you have a big enough group.

Let us know in the comments how it went. What were the pros and cons compared with how you would have initially planned to deliver that item?