‘Teachmeets’ are a radical concept in staff development: instead of presentations given by experts, participants can hear raw stories told by other teachers from the chalk face. It’s a chance to learn from and share with real practitioners about their successes and experiences. In other words, it is about teachers teaching each other.

This idea has been spreading amongst school teachers for several years now, but has not yet made a significant impact in Further Education. A new collaboration between NGfL Cymru and RSC Wales aims to change this, by bringing a ‘Teachmeet’ into an FE college, and give teachers in FE the chance to experience this type of event for themselves, and perhaps to participate by giving a presentation. Presentations can be ‘Micro-presentations’ – lasting 7 minutes, or ‘Nano-presentations’ – lasting 2 minutes. The event will be streamed via the web to anyone who would like to connect and watch the proceedings.

‘Teachmeet: Bridging the Gap’  will take place at Coleg Llandrillo Cymru (Rhos on Sea campus) on Wednesday February 8th from 17:30.  If you would like to give a presentation, or you would just like to come along and find out how this works, please visit the Wiki here: http://teachmeet.pbworks.com/w/page/48452275/Bridging%20the%20Gap

….and sign up. It’s going to be “turbo-charged CPD”.

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