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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)

TeachMeet

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