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Faculty Meetings as a Tool for Capacity Building

Schools that support the continuing development of students also support the continuous development of those who educate these students.  Schools must be places of learning for both students and educators.  Building a culture of professional learning in schools is a necessary condition for sustained learning.  This session will offer several strategies to transform faculty meetings into a tool for capacity building.  Participants will leave the session with several faculty meeting activities that can be implemented immediately.

Participants will have the opportunity to:

• construct a rationale for using faculty meetings as a tool for capacity building
• examine ways that faculty meetings can function as culture builders or culture busters
• practice faculty meeting activities that can be used to enhance teaching and consequently, student learning
• discuss ways that faculty meetings can be used as a forum to promote the sharing of successful practice and celebrate efforts that foster student learning
• analyze the relationship between faculty meeting activities and the development of a professional learning community
• reflect upon personal next steps.