Friday, 14 June 2013

Teachmeet @ Cheney School Wednesday 12 June 2013

 On Wednesday 12th June 2013 Cheney School held its first Teachmeet event.  Thank you to Dr Rob Bown for organising this; I have no idea how he finds the time do these wonderful things.  I would also like to thank everyone that presented. It is not easy to come and present ideas to colleague, but it was a fantastic evening and a wonderful way to share best practice.  I left for home a little overawed by the range of ideas, but I was buoyed by the experience and reassured that I do the most wonderful job with the most wonderful people.  Teachers and teaching is so regularly bashed in the press – if only they would come and see what we do first hand; I am sure this would melt their cynicism.

Below are my notes.  They are far from perfect and a little more really than a list of presenters.  My apologies if anyone is misrepresented.  If this is the case; please let me know, advise me of what should be there and I will update the post.

Hannah Tyreman who presented also shares her experiences on her blog: 



Welcome
Jolie Kirby Headteacher of Cheney School Opening
Rob Bown Languages AST Chair


Presentations
Sir Tim Brighouse
Features of excellent schools
·         Teachers talk about teaching
·         Teachers observe each other’s progress
·         Teachers teach each other
·         Teachers plan together- these are the success criteria for a high functioning department.
 


Helene Galdin-O'Shea
Walk through my last Ofsted Lesson – the magic happened in the lesson when the students got stuck into a silent debate .

Claire Hamnett  Science AST
Speed dating for learning

Sophie Burrows film
Film Club presentation

Tom Boulter
I can't take my eyes off YouTube; how using teacher videos accelerates learning because students can revisit explanations and work at their own pace.
 


Carina Byles
Using mobile technology be encouraging students to use texting so we can poll classes, www.polleverywhere.com

Amjad Ali
The power of Poundland Pedagogy - using raffle tickets, share and replace board, post-it note corrections for spellings, director of learning - make trailers for learning using iMovie. Think tax and knowledge bank.  Balloons and so much more…. check out his blog at bulmershetoolkit.blogspot.co.uk  and twitter - @ASTsupportaali

Macro Pontecorvi
The UFGWPA

Andy Wright
Literacy and thinking skills are intertwined.
Maximise marking by:
They check/ friend checks/ teacher checks- 3 way check with all work to reinforce the importance of editing and making corrections.

Rob Bown AST languages
Michel Thomas learning

Simon Davis
Thinking hats and self evaluation 

Hannah Tyreman 
Ict resources -  Padlet.  Today's meet.  Thoughtboxes.  info.gram.  S'more. Check Follow her on Twitter  @hannahtyreman

James Gurung
Celebrate making mistakes, because it is an essential part of learning.

Keven Bartle
@kevbartle Pedagogy leaders

Matt Gray
Mr Gray's Blog - http://cherwellenglish.typepad.com/  Thinking Squares an alternative to mind maps. Backward engineering. Works well with Bloom's taxonomy. 

Alexia Uhia
Using mobile phones in the class. Ipadio.com

Rebecca Bartlett
Killer questions - students questioning each other.  Ideal for homework - research a question that students think no-one else can answer; this has to be related to the topic being studied and students have to know the answer.  Use the killer question as a plenary, when using this for the first time lead as a group activity to get the concept of killer questions.  Ask the question, pick three people to answer, and get a reward if no one can.  Keep a tally to reward the people who collect the most unanswered questions.

1 comment:

  1. I have uploaded all of the videos I recorded on to the Cheney Takeaway YouTube Channel.

    TeachMeet Oxford 1-20 take a look for reminders.

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