How can lunch breaks be healthier and more productive for students?

Survivors' Second Meeting

How can lunch breaks be healthier and more productive for students?

Presenter: Aylin GERON

Facilitator: Özer Gülen

Protocol: Chalk Talk

Date: 28/12/2010

Survivors' Second Meeting took place on the 28th of December. Our topic was “How can lunch breaks be healthier and more productive for students?”.

Aylin Geron was our presenter and I was the facilitator and we had chosen the Chalk Talk Protocol to discuss the topic.

Aylin started off by her power point presentation about the topic.To access the presentation, please click here.

According to protocol, noone was allowed to speak that's why after the presentation had finished, group members were asked to take the board markers so as to write down their own ideas and their comments onto the paper prepared on the board.
To see the photos of the group members while they were in action, click these links.
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Secondary Foreign Languages Dept. CFG Session 1

Topic: How can we create a more positive working environment in our department?
Facilitator: Heather Erguvanlı
Protocol: Chalk Talk
Expected Outcome: Solutions to problems in the work space

Results of the session:

2 Key Words: Respect and Positivity

Respect:

• If you have an issue with someone, find a place where you can speak in private.
• Details of own/others' private lives to be kept outside the department.
• If you have something to say, say it directly to the person concerned, not to others when the person concerned is absent.
• Mobile phones on 'Silent' mode.
• Make and receive mobile calls outside the department.
• Go over to the person you want to speak to and speak in muted tones.
• Arrange to have meetings in alternative locations...i.e. MUN Rm/Conference Rm.
• Answer students' queries in the lounge area, not at your desk.
• Do not allow student access to teachers' computers.
• Inform people when leaving documents on their desks.
• Offer to take turns to pick up printer cartridges.

Positivity:

• Support each other.
• Listen to colleagues' problems and offer solutions not criticisms.
• Be active listeners.
• Listen-think-give positive feedback/solutions.
• When something goes wrong, don't panic, focus on a solution, based on facts not individuals.

Respect for selves and others will create a tolerant and positive environment.

Extra Suggestions:

• How about airing the room 3-4 times a day or whenever necessary?
• As English teachers, how about speaking English in and outside the department?
• How about a department motto?...Something like, "All for one and one for all."

Idea Under Construction Session 2

16th December 2010

Presenter: Didem Şiranur

Facilitator: Seden Mıhçıoğlu

Protocol: Issaquah

Date : 16th December 2010

Topic: How can we identifiy our goals not based on numbers.

Expected outcome: Checking our goals and formulating a new way to chose a goal.

Our meeting started by Seden Mıhcıoğlu. She mentioned Issaquah protocol breifly with Powerpoint presentation . By the help of the presentation ,group members had an idea about the steps of Issaquah protocol. Then Didem Şıranur presented her dilemma using power point presentattion .(Showing examples of the goals that the departments have.) Please see the following link .

Group members asked probbing and clarifying questions.

Probing Questions:,

Q: Where can we start ?

A : We can start with small groups. First, teachers can decide their individual needs and their own goals.

Q : How can we manage to participate every teacher for checking their own goals ?

A : Each group member can mention the meeting feedbacks in their departments.

Suggestios :

Ø Departments need to revise their goals.

Ø We can have an in service training about how to decide our goals.

Decisisons:

* Didem Şiranur decided to meet with the head of the departments and revise their goals.