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Pave the Road to Maximum Teaching and Learning, Part 2: Develop the Workshop
You’ve prepared yourself (Part 1) and are ready to put together a great back-to-school workshop. Here’s the agenda for a half-day session.
- Welcome (10 min.)
- Introduction of topics, need, and benefits (20 min.)
- Overview of workshop tasks and materials (15 min.)
- Logistics for teamwork (5 min.)
- Break (10 min.)
- Work time for teams (60 min.)
- Break (5 min.)
- Reporting out: large group session (30 min.)
- Preview of follow-up activities (5 min.)
Develop a comprehensive workshop packet for participants, and you have the job licked: organization, materials, delivery, and follow-up guide.
Workshop Packet
1. Cover: Statement of core values, such as “Our mission is to educate every student for maximum academic and personal growth.”
2. Visuals (transparencies or PowerPoint slides) and paper copies
- Agenda
- Benefits: For example, “Participants will collaborate to create clear, enforceable expectations for student learning behavior.”
- Student performance data >
- Excerpt from First Days of School >
- Rules for Making Rules >
- Rubric for team-developed expectations (Make a yes-no checklist with the five Rules.)
3. Work team roster and room assignments: Collaborate with your assistant
to pre-assign participants to groups by interdisciplinary team, grade
level, or curriculum area—whatever configuration you want to interact
consistently throughout the year.
Designate a facilitator for each group, using current team leaders or
senior staff. You know who should facilitate and who should not.
NOTE: Plan now to collect each group’s work products to format
an attractive color and black-and-white copy (8.5x11 or poster size)
for each classroom. Quick turnaround here, because you’ll want
them posted the first day of school.
Part 3: Deliver the Workshop and Follow Through >
