Walking into the AA meeting made me feel very awkward and out of place‚ but as the meeting began and everyone started sharing their stories I began to feel comfortable about being there. When I first went in the room the chairs were set up in a circle with some on the outside of it. I decided to take a seat on the outside so I wouldn’t be of focus during the meeting. They started the meeting off with reading some inspirational words and then reading the 12 steps. Their focus tonight was on a higher
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Effective Meetings for Managers The purpose of an agenda (weighting 5% of the total mark) Productive‚ valuable‚ and engaging meetings require a clear goal‚ an open dialog‚ and a strong leader. Key to this is a well constructed agenda prepared prior to the meeting. An agenda should act as a guide to attendees letting participants know the meeting objective and what to expect. An agenda aims to direct the meeting by providing topic prompts‚ a running order and proposed time allocation for relevant
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are expected to inspire students even as they help them succeed and get good grades on difficult tests. Teachers are now held capable of assessing students abilities to meet a variety of different standards. Also‚ another main focus in teaching and meeting specific standards is professional development and the steps they take in evaluating teachers on their job. In the first main standard that is being focused on is standard #9: Professional Learning and Ethical Practice. “In this standard it describes
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EFFECTIVE MEETINGS FOR MANAGERS The purpose of an agenda The agenda gives the meeting a clear purpose‚ once you know what you want to achieve from a meeting then you can start to put an agenda together. The agenda is a list of topics to be discussed in a meeting; the purpose is to follow the topic needed to be discussed so that no one strays off the topics. It also establish a timeline and order and keeps the meeting organized and on track. If there was a poor or no agenda for the meeting then
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Meeting the Needs of the Youth One of the most challenging aspects of my ministry has always been the youth. Youth in my books would be defined as Grade 8 – Grade 12. What makes this a challenging ministry‚ is the ever changing make-up of the youth. It seems that every 6 months or so you have an entirely “new” youth group. It is not “new” in the normal sense as most of them have been in the youth ministry for a while‚ it is that they have all changed and it seems like a “new” group. They speak
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Rebecca Brush attended Delaware Valley School board meeting held on‚ October 20‚ 2016‚ at 7 o’clock pm. The first major issue discussed was the results from multiple test scores and what direction they were going. We went through all of the elementary school’s test results given to us by the first and secondary education chairmen and women‚ Dr. James Purcell‚ Dr. Peg Schaffer‚ and Dr. Gina Vitacco-Vives. They explained after installing a new curriculum the test scores had skyrocketed. For the Pennsylvania
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WORK-BASED ASSIGNMENT - M3.33 Effective meetings for managers An agenda ( I have included a copy of a company agenda for reference) is prepared by the secretary prior to a meeting and details items to be discussed within the meeting. The purpose of the agenda is to ensure the chairperson has a clear purpose of what is to be achieved from the meeting‚ allow all attendees to prepare for the meeting. This gives all attendees a clear format to work from and ensures that companies time and resources
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Anyone is welcome to attend the meetings and there is never a fee or charge. There are two types of meetings an open and closed. An open meeting means that anyone can show up to the meeting with the alcoholic such as family members‚ students‚ or anyone interested in the topic. A closed meeting is just for the individuals with the addiction. Everyone that participates in the meetings has suffered or is currently suffering an alcohol addiction. It is an informal meeting and there are no doctors or psychologist
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After attending the AA meeting at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church‚ I found myself extremely satisfied with my experience. As I entered the meeting‚ I was able to encounter a variety of participants. Each participant brought a different dynamic to the group which challenged me to view each participant as an individual. The participants’ age range varied from mid-twenties to upper-sixties‚ along with an equal mix of men and women. Honestly‚ I entered the meeting with preconceived expectations about
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During my practicum I was able to sit in on one PLC meeting. It was a little informal considering the principal was gone and the teachers mostly talked if they wanted to. We went into the teachers lounge and sat around the big table and just talked about who is struggling. We went over what students had troubles reading and how far behind they were. The physical education teacher takes certain students how need extra reading strategies for about twenty minutes. This happens everyday in the classroom
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