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A TeachMeet is an 'unconference'
Control is distributed amongst those taking part
It is participant-driven
ScoteduBlogMeetup
May 2006
Jolly Judge in Edinburgh
Scottish learning Festival
September 2006
Sponsorship and refreshments!
The name 'TeachMeet' is coined.
Venue, equipment, refreshments
The event is organised for teachers,
by teachers
Speaker volunteers and 'lurkers' usually
sign up via a wiki
Talks should be about what is happening in
a classroom somewhere now
Every TeachMeet has its own rules and they are often flexible
No powerpoints allowed
Don't get so caught up in rules that you forget
what it is you're trying to achieve!
Success relies on volunteers to
help organise the event
Random speakers can be selected using the
Classtools 'fruit machine'
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.
"Was it HMIE that said the greatest improvement to teaching
occurs when teachers talk to each other?"
"TeachMeets are not about revolutionising education -
just getting excited about others' enthusiasm"
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."
"Structure is useful until it becomes a restriction"
A debating format might offer scope for interesting real 'perturbation into discussion'
(Con Morris)
People could talk about things that are NOT happening in the classroom"
Perhaps people could come together to tackle one particular area -
for example, assessment
Probably because ..... "TeachMeet is a great idea to get people to share in a really unpressured, democratic kind of way"
(Andrew Brown)