Let's make your life easier this year! This page features ready-to-go guides for facilitating meaningful and content-rich conversations for faculty meetings or professional development. The content of these guides is drawn from past webinars hosted by the Paradigm Project.
Select a recent webinar for your staff to view on their own time. Be sure to review it in advance. Then utilize some of the following questions for a meaningful discussion at a staff meeting. Think about a discussion being based on a taxonomy that involves comprehension, synthesis, and thenapplication.
Comprehension
What did you notice?
What were some key points?
Synthesis
What did you appreciate?
What resonated with you?
What are you already doing?
What might you want to try doing?
What surprised you?
How does something you heard relate to an interest among the children in your class?
What did you agree with ?
What might you have argued with?
What assumptions do you think might have been made?
Get into your age groups: How does this apply to the age you work with?
Application
What do you wonder?
What actions might you take?
Comprehension
What did you notice?
What were some key points?
Synthesis
What did you appreciate?
What resonated with you?
What are you already doing?
What might you want to try doing?
What surprised you?
How does something you heard relate to an interest among the children in your class?
What did you agree with ?
What might you have argued with?
What assumptions do you think might have been made?
Get into your age groups: How does this apply to the age you work with?
Application
What do you wonder?
What actions might you take?
For some individual work, here are two reflection guides for you and your staff. Click on the images to make your own copy so that you can type directly into it.
