mY first Teachmeet
On the evening of Monday 29th June, over 60
people gathered together and gave up their time to support my first
ever Teachmeet @FHSBristol.
The attendees included Primary
& Secondary teachers, support staff, Senior Leaders and Governors. The aim
of the event was to share best practice and demonstrate ideas and activities
which could be used in the classroom. Also present, were representatives from @Matific (Bruce Seymour), Into Film (@rico_intofilm) and the Watershed (Hannah
Brady) all of whom were very keen to share how their products can help to
enthuse students in the classroom.
The evening started
with a welcome speech from our Principal, Ms Catriona Mangham. This was followed
by our key note speaker, @Crista Hazell (Severn Vale School) who shared with us her fabulous ideas on creativity in the classroom.
We were then
treated to a lot of fantastic presentations, some of which included audience
participation. I @SJBarnes81 demonstrated websites and apps that can be used as
an alternative to PowerPoint presentations including, Powtoon (an online
presentation website), Kahoot (an interactive quiz where students respond using
mobile phones or tablet devices), Quizlet (an online site that allows
teachers/students to create quizzes to practice key subject vocabulary) and
also GoNoodle (a fun brain break website). We were also taken back in time to
the 1980s with our “Superman” dance.
Cameron Parker @CamParkerHUD (Elite Motivator) gave a
motivational speech, Candida Gould @candidagould (Cotham School) spoke about taking control
of your CPD (slides here) and Hayley Yelland @Miss_Yelland (Fairfield High School) explained how to ensure
successful collaborative learning.
Jasmine Williams @Miss_JFWilliams (Hansprice School)
demonstrated her marking and feedback policy and Rose Hooke @MissHooke (Fairfield High
School) clarified the difference between “English” and “Literacy” and
demonstrated how we can ensure Literacy is used successfully across the
curriculum.
Ben Davey @el_davooo (Bridge
Learning campus) told us about his Challenge board and Tower of Power and Said
Benchama @SaidBenchama (Bristol Met) spoke about using Bloom’s Taxonomy in lessons to
encourage students to progress and challenge themselves.
Keziah Featherstone @BLC_Head34 (Headteacher
at Bridge Learning Campus) delivered the closing speech on the theme of @WomenEd which encourages Females to put themselves forward for leadership roles. She
also asked us to save the date of a special Women Ed event on 3rd
October 2015.
The twitter feed for #FHSTM can be viewed here #FHSTM
There is also a dropbox folder with the presentations. Please add your presentation from the evening, if it's not in the folder.
Everyone went away at the end of the evening
very happy, enthused and laden with goodie bag. Some lucky attendees also took
home a raffle prize including a T-shirt from either Quizlet
or Kahoot, a £25 iTunes voucher from Matific and a Teacher subscription to
Biteslide. Fairfield’s very own Mrs Lamming was the luck winner of the
tips2teaching.co.uk classroom resources. I’d like to thank everyone who
presented, attended, sponsored and supported the Teachmeet. Let it be the start
of many more to come.
Sharon
Barnes @SJBarnes81
