Thinking Out Loud: Effective CPD

This week I led a session for teachers on how to go about curriculum planning. It was a lunchtime session, we had 30 minutes and I was the second speaker. My brief was to cover the pedagogy/research around curriculum design (I discussed it in this post). I knew what I wanted to cover and made some posters for staff to take away (check out the resources section)... There were lots of smiles and positive feedback after my session, but I walked away thinking... no one else really spoke. I spoke, for 15 minutes and posed probably less than 5 questions, two of which were a simple show of hands.

Was this wrong?

I would never deliver content to a group of students like that... was this okay for my colleagues? I knew they held some knowledge about curriculum design but some of it was also probably new.

How do we judge when is the right time to get our colleagues involved in discussion? How much content is too much content? How much should I treat them like students?

I don't have the answers but I will go and seek some feedback - something I am desperately bad at getting and feedback in another article what my colleagues felt.