Bridging the gap between academic research and classroom practice by @SLTeachMeet
Reading time, 3 minutes: Teachers and senior teachers are doing it for themselves … and so are academics. But are we bridging the gap together?
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An Education Tour of Duty by @TeacherToolkit
Reading time, 4 minutes: Over the past two weeks, I have been on the educational tour of duty across London and parts of England. This blog is a snapshot of what’s been going on in my world …
#TeachMeets – Should they include keynote speakers and presentations?
Reading time, < 1 minuteI posted the following question on Twitter on 20th July 2013.
#SLTeachMeet Teacher Recruitment
Reading time, < 1 minuteThis is my full presentation discussed on 14th May 2013 at #SLTeachMeet (2) in London. The salubrious surroundings of The Russell Hotel were provided to us by @OptimusEd. A huge thank you to Russell at Optimus.
#TMLondon – #Outstanding #CPD for teachers
Reading time, 2 minutes: The following video is a small 6-minute capture of #TMLondon at @WalthamstowAcad-emy on 27th February 2013. The event was organised by myself & @Kafilat_Agboola (AVP for CPD at Walthamstow); who was actually attending her first ever TeachMeet (also as a host)! Thank you, as ever goes to @MrLockyer who helped me co-host the actual event […]
Ignore the #DfE: Teachers are doing it for themselves! by @TeacherToolkit
Reading time, 9 minutes: This is a guest-post for the Labour Teachers blog. There are many teachers across the country who are disregarding DfE models of practice promoted via The National College, the abolished TDA and the Institute of Education and so on. Out of the estimated 0.9 million teachers across the country, there is approximately just 5% of […]
Do #Osiris Education have egg on their face?
Reading time, 2 minutes: Well, what a hoo-ha! 19.3.13 – After reading a wonderful article on #TeachMeets in the Osiris Education magazine, I was then led to visit their website. Clever marketing you might say? I was quite impressed with this webpage as it was a useful channel for directing people to what was going on in the TeachMeet revolution gripping teachers across the […]
Planning and hosting your own TeachMeet, by @TeacherToolkit
Reading time, 2 minutes: 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. […]
TeachMeets: An underground revolution! How did it all start?
Reading time, 2 minutes: Optimus Education: “In the first of two articles, Ross Morrison McGill explains why attending a TeachMeet could be the finest CPD you’ve ever had…” So, the chances are those (not on Twitter and reading this CPD Update newsletter) is that you’ve never heard of a Teach-Meet; but quite-possibly, you have heard of Twitter. Now…, before […]
#SLTeachMeet – watch the video & audio archives
Reading time, < 1 minuteWhat an amazing evening! Thank you everyone involved. @GuardianTeach for the venue, @MrLockyer for co-spawning the idea and making it happen…. @EyeBeams for eveything I have posted below and allowing the entire world to be able to view this shared-practice….and finally to our sponsors @Dragon_Edu, @InnovateMySchl, @SteljesGroup, @Oddizzi and of course @GuardianTeach. View the content […]
#SLTeachMeet – final presentation and live document (6.12.12)
Reading time, < 1 minuteLive document for 6th December 2012 (5.30pm start) is here.
@TeacherToolkit presents #SLTchat and @SLTchat at #TMEssex
Reading time, 2 minutes: On Monday 16th November, I attended and presented at my first Teach Meet, #TMEssex. The evening was amazing! So I am going to say this three times… If you ever have the opportuntiy to attend a Teach Meet – do it! 2. If you ever have the opportuntiy to attend a Teach Meet – do […]