Feedback from the Oxford Teachmeet – D Arnold
I was hoping that they would have e-mailed me all of the links to the items presented at the meeting but they have put
them into a blog. You can see the blog by following
http://www.cheneyagility.blogspot.co.uk/
I have copied it below and added my own comments from the evening in red.
Welcome to the Professional Journal of Cheney School, Oxford; this is the space where colleagues can share ideas,
innovations and anything of interest from the world of teaching and learning...
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:
http://hannahruthtyreman.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/tmoxford/
Welcome
Jolie Kirby Headteacher of Cheney School Opening
Rob Bown Languages AST Chair
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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.
The silent debate seemed like a different way of debating and getting students to write down their ideas. The idea is that you
give a group of student a large sheet of paper and different coloured pens. They are not allowed to speak. They write down their
points in turn in their colour building up the debate. You can see her Ofsted lesson – at
monkeylearns.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/the-one-where-ofsted-came.html?m=1
Claire Hamnett Science AST
Speed dating for learning.
A great way to revise. Student revise a topic or part of a topic. She had 16 students with different topics. They sit in pairs facing
each other. Numbered 1 A and 1B; 2 A and B etc. A teaches B for 2 mins. They then swap and B teaches A. They all then move so
that 1A is facing 2B; 2A – 3B etc and repeat the process until they have all listened to each other. They then have a peer
assessment sheet to complete on each other’s talks
Sophie Burrows film
Film Club presentation. An excellent free resource. Allows student to write about a film. http:/www.filmclub.org/
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.
Teachers presentation placed on youtube. These could be revision materials. Teachers could appear in the video or it could be a
voice over on a power point. He showed evidence of how many students used the site especially the night before the GCSE
exam. Could be used as effectively as our hour revision sessions before exams? Students can learn at their own pace and rewind
when concepts are missed.
http://www.youtube.com/user/CherwellOnline
Examples
Carina Byles
Using mobile technology be encouraging students to use texting so we can poll classes, www.polleverywhere.com
This was taken up by schools where students were allowed mobile phones and they didn't have iPADs. Students could post
comments onto a communal notice board using text. A free service.
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
An excellent presentation. A very enthusiastic teacher with a lot of good ideas. Worth looking at his web site. There will be
something there that you will want to try.
(http://www.bulmershetoolkit.blogspot.co.uk/)
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. A different way of providing feedback.
Rob Bown AST languages
Michel Thomas learning
Simon Davis
Thinking hats and self evaluation
Hannah Tyreman
A good summary of some of the toa tech tools available. Worth looking at her site.
www.slideshare.net/hannahtyreman
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.
@jamesgurung
Keven Bartle
@kevbartle Pedagogy leaders
He has since published his presentation in the guardian education. He explains how they have set up a T&L group in their school.
A number of points that could be discussed by the TLC.
http://canonsbroadside.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/are-we-there-yet-pedagogy-leaders-art.html?m=1
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. This is a technique used in a number of areas such as SOLO taxonomy. Good to use instead
of the usual mindmaps. He also talked about backwards engineering which referred to the fact that as experts in our subjects we
sometimes forget how difficult it is to learn some of the concepts. Backwards engineering is his way of explaining stepping into
students shoes and thinking about their problems learning.
Alexia Uhia
Using mobile phones in the class. Ipadio.com Similar to the earlier presentation.
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.
The next teacher meet in Oxford is called ‘Ox-fail’ where the theme is to present on a T&L activity that went badly
wrong and how it was subsequently improved. It will be at Cherwell School on 11th of July.
http://teachmeet.pbworks.com/w/page/66533041/TMOxfail
If you have any questions about the presentation please ask.
All the best
David Arnold