TeachMeet
A TeachMeet is an 'unconference'
Control is distributed amongst those taking part
It is participant-driven
Jolly Judge in Edinburgh
May 2006
ScoteduBlogMeetup
Scottish learning Festival
September 2006
Sponsorship and refreshments!
The name 'TeachMeet' is coined.
Success relies on volunteers to 
help organise the event
The event is organised for teachers, 
by teachers
Venue, equipment, refreshments
Speaker volunteers and 'lurkers' usually 
sign up via a wiki
No powerpoints allowed
Talks should be about what is happening in 
a classroom somewhere now
Don't get so caught up in rules that you forget 
what it is you're trying to achieve!
Random speakers can be selected using the
 Classtools 'fruit machine'
Every TeachMeet has its own rules and they are often flexible
Think of ways of spreading the news the news
about your Teachmeet event
Find ways of recording your TeachMeet 
so that it can be shared with an even wider audience
The best bits of a conference usually take place during the coffee break. Allow time for people to mingle and network.
"TeachMeets are not about revolutionising education - 
just getting excited about others' enthusiasm"
"Structure is useful until it becomes a restriction"
Probably because ..... "TeachMeet is a great idea to get people to share in a really unpressured, democratic kind of way"
(Andrew Brown)
"Was it HMIE that said the greatest improvement to teaching 
occurs when teachers talk to each other?"
TeachMeet is certainly designed to do one thing well, which is to take teachers who, by their nature, are doing things that are NOT happening everywhere, with a sympathetic audience who will, maybe, go away and help spread their ideas."
Perhaps people could come together to tackle one particular area - 
for example, assessment
People could talk about things that are NOT happening in the classroom"
A debating format might offer scope for interesting real 'perturbation into discussion'
(Con Morris)