The Impact Of #SLTchat Across The UK
Reading Time: 5 minutes Over the past 13 months, I have watched @SLTchat grow and establish the #SLTchat hashtag for education on social-media. This has not been a solo effort and one I wish to highlight here.
Tag: TeachMeet
#TeachMeets – Should they include keynote speakers and presentations?
Reading Time: < 1 minute I posted the following question on Twitter on 20th July 2013.
Teacher Recruitment
Reading Time: < 1 minute Here is a link to my presentation at #SLTeachMeet and the video archives.
#SLTeachMeet Teacher Recruitment
Reading Time: < 1 minute This is my full presentation discussed on 14th May 2013 at #SLTeachMeet (2) in London. The salubrious surroundings of The Russell Hotel were provided to us by @OptimusEd. A huge thank you to Russell at Optimus.
Educational Leadership and Management: @BELMASOffice – from Twitter-troll to the @HouseOfCommons
Reading Time: 4 minutes On Tuesday 7th May 2013, as a direct result of a Twitter-troll – I was invited to The House Of Commons in Westminster. There are some benefits resulting from an attack of a Twitter-trolls… This is one of them!
How Has Blogging Enhanced Me Professionally?
Reading Time: < 1 minute This presentation is for the #TMIntl 4th International TeachMeet 2013 taking place today on Saturday 20th April at 2pm GMT.
#TMLondon – #Outstanding #CPD for teachers
Reading Time: 2 minutes The following video is a small 6-minute capture of #TMLondon at @WalthamstowAcad-emy on 27th February 2013. The event was organised by myself & @Kafilat_Agboola (AVP for CPD at Walthamstow); who was actually attending her first ever TeachMeet (also as a host)! Thank you, as ever goes to @MrLockyer who helped me co-host the actual event […]
Ignore the #DfE: Teachers are doing it for themselves! by @TeacherToolkit
Reading Time: 9 minutes This is a guest-post for the Labour Teachers blog. There are many teachers across the country who are disregarding DfE models of practice promoted via The National College, the abolished TDA and the Institute of Education and so on. Out of the estimated 0.9 million teachers across the country, there is approximately just 5% of […]
Do #Osiris Education have egg on their face?
Reading Time: 2 minutes Well, what a hoo-ha! 19.3.13 – After reading a wonderful article on #TeachMeets in the Osiris Education magazine, I was then led to visit their website. Clever marketing you might say? I was quite impressed with this webpage as it was a useful channel for directing people to what was going on in the TeachMeet revolution gripping teachers across the […]
Planning and hosting your own TeachMeet, by @TeacherToolkit
Reading Time: 2 minutes Ross Morrison McGill shares organising tips from his own experience of attending and hosting TeachMeets, as well as advice on promoting your TeachMeet to colleagues outside your own school. In my recent article TeachMeets: an underground revolution, I explained how TeachMeets have become a popular, unique form of effective CPD over the past few years. […]
The Universal Panacea? #BlogSync by @TeacherToolkit
Reading Time: 6 minutes TOPIC: “The Universal Panacea? The number one shift in UK education I wish to see in my lifetime.” My panacea is a very simple idea to cure all teachers from that number one problem that stops them from doing their jobs better… What I’d like to give back to you and all teachers and schools […]
Professional development for teachers: How can we take it to the next level? #Outstanding
Reading Time: 5 minutes Schools should offer more support and time for training, but teachers also need to take responsibility for their own growth, writes Ross Morrison McGill – this post can be found on The Guardian Teacher Network.