On Friday 2nd March 2012 Stranmillis University will host the first TeachMeet to be held in Northern Ireland.
TeachMeet is an un-conference ‘for teachers, organised by teachers’, and this year for the first time it is being held in N. Ireland.
Come along to the CELIL building in Stranmillis College on Friday 2nd March where the organisers are hoping to welcome as many interested (and interesting) teachers as possible to the event where they will have the opportunity to either present something that they’d like to share with their fellow professionals, or simply enjoy the evening and take home some great ideas.
If you are curious about teaching and learning where you can share teaching ideas, ask questions and interact with others why not come along to the evening from 6.30pm to 8.30pm, with nibbles being served from 6.00pm. The venue for the ‘meet’ is The Centre of Excellence for Leadership, Innovation and Learning at Stranmillis University College, Belfast.
Following the TeachMeet will be a social gathering to which everyone is invited. If you are unable to attend the event, the organisers hope to live stream the event and have a recording available for download afterwards.
What is a TeachMeet?
Learn something new, be amazed, amused and enthused. TeachMeet is an informal gathering of those curious about teaching and learning. Anyone can share great ideas they've trialled in their classrooms, ask important questions or simply sign up to take part in learning conversations. It is about being engaged and inspired by our immediate colleagues and a whole bucket-load of networking to boot!
Attendees can sign up on the night to give a 2 or 7 minute presentation on a topic of their choice: amusing, amazing, questioning or enthusing. And remember the presentations do not have to be ICT-themed.
Collaboration, sharing ideas and spreading best practice are common to most jobs, whether organised through formal structures or informal conversations.
TeachMeet runs in many other locations, with primary and post-primary teachers coming together to share with colleagues and take home other people’s ideas.
The organisers suggest that “with the ever-shrinking education budget on the horizon … this will be an excellent free Continuing Professional Development (CPD) opportunity for teachers”.
Representatives from Game to Learn will be attending the event and hope to see you there.
Game to Learn is a classroom learning and homework management system that enables primary school teachers to manage school work more effectively. It is Game to Learn’s initiative to bring learning into the 21st century, and the experts at Game to Learn believe ‘gaming’ can improve performance, through increased engagement within young people of primary age.
Game to Learn offer learning solutions for Key Stage One & Key Stage Two pupils and do so through effective track-able gaming solutions. These solutions integrate gaming as well as learning into a single package, which is the most comprehensive platform for primary education.
Some benefits of Game to Learn include saving time, school cost reductions, environmental considerations, strong links to I.C.T learning, improved & track-able class and individual performance results, better grades, and easy to use software; as well as full access to the one stop tutoring market place!
You can learn more about Game to Learn by visiting the website at http://www.gametolearn.net
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