Affiliation:
1. Downe House School, Thatcham, United Kingdom
Abstract
What is it? A TeachMeet (TM) is a form of free Continuing Professional
Development (CPD) that originated in 2006 in Scotland, and has since been
known under many guises; guerrilla CPD, unconference, and bottom-up CPD. The
forefather of this form of CPD is educational consultant Ewan McIntosh, who
originated these meetings for those educators in primary and secondary
schools who wanted to share ideas and talk expressly about teaching. From
the very first TM, which took place on the peripheries of an educational
conference, there have been certain characteristics that define this
teacher-led CPD. The by-line for a TM is ‘teachers sharing ideas with
teachers’. As this strapline suggests, the presenters at a TM are also the
attendees; they are there to learn from each other at a utilitarian meeting.
The presentations, often described as micro or nano presentations, are
short, and there is ‘break-out time’ when attendees can get together, learn
more from each other, and share and develop ideas. Indeed, as Bennett (2012)
suggests “the value of a conference is not the keynotes or even the
workshops, but the conversations that happen in the corridor or over coffee”
(p. 24).
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1. The characteristic elements of TeachMeet;Irish Educational Studies;2024-09-12