Ross Morrison McGill shares organising tips from his own experience of attending and hosting TeachMeets, as well as advice on promoting your TeachMeet to colleagues outside your own school.
In my recent article TeachMeets: an underground revolution, I explained how TeachMeets have become a popular, unique form of effective CPD over the past few years. If you have decided that you are organised and enthusiastic enough to lead one yourself, read on.
(Part 2 of 2 articles)
Firstly, my advice is to make sure that you attend an event that is already published, and that while you are there, you do all that you can to research all aspects of the event. This ranges from catering, ticketing, hosting and curating a range of guest-presenters who will all arrive at one place, on time and speak for free!
There is a key portal for all TeachMeet promotion and advertising, and by browsing through the wealth of information here you will gather a very quick idea of what your own event will need to do in order to draw in the punters.
The audience at TMLondon at Greig City Academy on 11.12.12 – click for more images.Sorry! If you would like to read the rest of this two-part article, you will need to do so, by accessing this online at Optimus Education here: http://www.optimus-education.com/planning-and-hosting-your-own-teachmeet. (Publisher rights)
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This is very timely as I have been asked to present to 26 heads after half term on this subject. None of them have heard of teachmeets. Useful information. Many thanks.