This document provides tips and strategies for planning effective meetings and workshops. It discusses setting clear objectives and outcomes, developing agendas that assign times and responsibilities to agenda items, preparing materials in advance, conducting the meeting on schedule while assigning notes and action items, and examining the process after the meeting. It also addresses considerations for adult learners, such as incorporating variety, engagement, and movement into the sessions. The document is intended as a resource for planning meetings, presentations, and professional development activities.

1. Designing Meetings & Workshops Michigan Mathematics and Science Teacher Leadership Collaborative

3. Effective Agendas

4. Adult Learners

6. As Teacher Leaders, you may be asked to prepare for and chair a meeting. The key to success is: Plan, Plan, Plan

7. Discussion: How do you react to meetings? What contributes to a good meeting? A bad one?

12. Provide the agenda before the meeting

14. Set the schedule with appropriate times

16. Lead the meeting following the planned agenda

19. Participating in a Meeting Participants have a responsibility to: Arrive on time Be well-prepared Be concise and to the point Participate in a constructive manner

21. What worked and what didn’t?

23. Adult Learners At your table, brainstorm ways that you perceive adult learners to be different than child or youth learners.

24. Adult Learners When working with adult learners, laughter, changes of pace, engaging processes, and frequent movement in seminars all contribute to energy for learning.

26. TRAINER (demonstrating skills)

27. COACH (overseeing the acquisition of knowledge or new behavior)

29. Read through your sin and the redemption strategies

30. Create a poster or visual that depicts the sin and its redemption strategy