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Staff Meetings

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Staff Meetings

Essentials of Teaching provides a growing list of bullet-point summaries of content for Christian educators. Each guide can be downloaded, printed, or viewed as a webpage and includes links to the resources we used to compile the content.




  • Meetings provide an opportunity for clear communication, effective planning, fruitful discussion, and professional development

  • Attend a meeting ready to listen to others, focus on the task at hand (silence technology or other distractions), and offer your own input

  • Regular meetings as staff help to create an environment of teamwork and support. Teaching is emotionally expensive and lonely, but interacting with each other as staff can combat burnout and provide fresh inspiration.

  • Foster growth by exploring the following:

  • Set personal goals—what can change tomorrow? What are your quarterly visions?

  • Discuss staff-wide vision—how can you make the school different next year? What aspects of school culture need to change?

  • Strategize—what is something that you’ve “always done this way” that needs to change? Where can you broaden your perspective?

  • Reasons to include professional development in staff meetings:

  • Giving teachers opportunities to grow in the craft of teaching can prevent burn-out

  • The intentional developing of teachers’ skills is to your school’s advantage

  • Practical tips for using staff meetings as opportunities for professional development:

  • Have guest speakers come in to talk about an area of expertise

  • Use pedagogical books as a framework for learning and discussion

  • Pull from staff strengths—have teachers talk about areas they have invested into and can present techniques to others

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