Each week, Instant Meeting presents an idea or activity that you might use to make staff meetings more interesting, teacher-centered, educational, or fun.
Brief Description/Purpose
When decisions need to be made, and you are looking for a consensus among your staff, Stoplight Cards and Thumbs Up are two tools you might use.
Materials Needed
Time Required
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This activity can be used for whatever part of your meeting requires teachers and staff members to make decisions about issues that face your school.
"Instant Meeting" Idea
Before the meeting, prepare green, yellow, and red "stoplight cards" (see Materials Needed above). Distribute a set of three index cards, one of each color, to each meeting particpant. When a decision is being proposed, explain the use of the stoplight cards.
Imagine you are facilitating a staff meeting that will require several decisions. Group members will use the cards to indicate where they stand on the decision to be made:
Ask those who are holding yellow or red cards to explain their hesitation or disagreement. When their thoughts have been heard, you might call for another vote to see if the results have changed.
Thumbs Up is essentially the same tool as stoplight cards. The difference is that participants indicate with their thumbs, rather than cards, where they stand with a decision:
Source: Making Decisions: Stoplight Cards and Thumbs Up (EducationWorld.com, "Great Meetings" -- March 22, 2005.
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