The Importance Of Ineffective Staff Meetings

Most people experience unproductive and ineffective meetings very often, some more than others. While some meetings often produce many valuable results, many meetings are often considered to be a waste of time or ultimately have little value to the staff or participants when the meeting does not go well. Having staff meetings, especially in an educational setting, can often produce many valuable results. Effective meetings provide a chance for discussion, may have the ability to broaden each staff member’s perspective and may give an opportunity to see each other’s point of view. Additionally, people often learn in meetings how to work together and how to manage conflict more productively.

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The purpose of these staff meetings is to keep the staff informed and diligent, while also addressing any issues the staff and management may have. In these meetings, issues such as co-worker disagreements, deadlines, handling children’s behaviors, daily routines, and parent-teacher coordination is addressed. At least once a month, these meetings include staff from each grade or each age group and are also mandated to attend. These meetings take place in the enrichment classroom after school hours or sometimes take place between the hours of nap time. To ensure each employee attends these monthly meetings, they are held during the times which the staff is in the facility. Before these monthly meetings, we are given an outline of the topic of discussions which are to be addressed during the staff meeting. The purpose of the outline is for the staff to write down any questions, comments or concerns they may have based on that particular topic. The staff is greatly encouraged to discuss these concerns with the rest of the staff and …show more content…
Beata, who is the Democratic leader during this meeting, has confidence that each teacher knows what each child is capable of and knows their potential. These report cards give a much clearer picture of where the student is now and what direction they need to go in the future. Beata’s suggestion was to provide parents with more specific information regarding their child’s progress. She decided to include narrative comments in addition to the numeric grades. We discussed that it gives the teacher the opportunity to elaborate on the student’s strengths and offers ways the child could improve overall. Her belief was that letter, and number grades do not ultimately reflect young children’s development level or their