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2. Developing participatory TGMs

Initially in this course, you are going to look at how to be active in your TGMs to make them as participatory as possible.

TGMs are a great opportunity to help you and your fellow teachers develop as reflective practitioners. Just like your students, you will learn most if you are actively involved and not just expected to sit and listen to presentations. A good meeting involves all teachers reflecting on and sharing experiences and ideas. This helps you develop different ways of working and understandings of effective teaching and learning.

Activity 4.3: Reflecting on past TGMs

At the beginning of this SBCPD programme you looked at things you would like to see in an effective and productive meeting.  Revisit the list below and reflect on how many of these actions have regularly occurred in your TGMs over the past few terms:

  • everyone felt able to contribute
  • you have learned something new which will help you teach better
  • the work done in the meeting has saved you time as you have planned some classroom activities for next week
  • you have had the chance to talk about things you were concerned about
  • people listened to each other
  • the facilitator had planned the meeting and the time was used productively
  • the agenda was shared in advance
  • the people attending the meeting had prepared themselves in advance.

Highlight those actions that have taken place, and those which have not taken place.

In your Teacher Notebook make a note of how you can improve on the TGMs in your school, building on the things you do well, and developing aspects that could improve.

Kabwe teachers working in a participatory TGM
Teachers working collaboratively

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