TeachMeet UK - All over the UK teachers gather, in their own free time, to share teaching practices, ideas and innovations that have worked in their classrooms.
6 TeachMeet UK practical classroom ideas
1. Question tokens
Encourage students to become more independent in their learning by providing them with Question Tokens. The rules? Students can ask one-another unlimited questions, but only have 3 tokens to ask the teacher.
This idea was shared at #TMBristol by @MrOCallaghanEdu - read more and download the tokens on his blog.
2. QR code window displays
Engage the wider community with what's happening in your classroom by using your classroom window to display QR codes linking to children's work. Parents can use their phone so see some of the wonderful things the students have been producing. This idea came from @ThisIsLiamM and @PrimaryIdeas at #TMHerts.
This video explains all:
3. Climb through a postcard
This is intended to be a maths exercise, but would be a fun game on the last day of term for any subject. Hand your students a postcard and ask them to cut a hole and climb through it...it's not impossible! Check out @MoreThanMaths blog for an explanation, Lois shared this great idea at TeachMeet.
4. Be inspired. Be inspiring
@paulyb37's presentation from #TMM14 shares some great books and a couple of videos to inspire yourself as a teacher in order to inspire and engage your students. I particularly love the Ken Robinson Ted Talk on changing education paradigms.
5. Pixlr
This is a photo editor that you can use on your mobile for free. It's a simple and fun way of bringing a little creativity into the classroom and adding another dimension to project work. I'm not sure who spoke about this, but I spotted @enomilie tweet mentioning it at #TeachMeet Blackpool. Visit Pixlr's website here.
6. Video based CPD
Finally, I couldn't leave this one out...it was great to see IRIS Connect on the big screen at #TMSheff14 - thanks to Lee from Parkwood Academy for sharing his experience and to @MissKingsley85 for tweeting the photo. Using video to reflect on your teaching and student learning is hugely powerful and a brilliant way to develop as a teacher.
Find out more about why this type of CPD is so important, watch our video.
What caught your eye at #TMUK? Feel free to add your ideas in the comments.
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