{"id":6905,"date":"2017-03-06T07:51:25","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T07:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6905"},"modified":"2017-03-06T07:51:25","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T07:51:25","slug":"meeting-teachers-at-the-teachmeet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2017\/03\/06\/meeting-teachers-at-the-teachmeet\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting teachers at the TeachMeet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was rather uncharitable (quite uncharacteristically, so, I thought) about the Bristol <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=6901&amp;action=edit\">TeachMeet<\/a> last Thursday evening. \u00a0I'm happy to report that some 9 teachers did turn up. \u00a0I'm less happy to note that hardly any of them had heard of the sustainable development goals. \u00a0Their interests seemed (mostly) environmental, but then such things are hardly disconnected with the SDGs. \u00a0There was much angst around about how few green flags there are adorning Bristol schools. \u00a0I sensed a bit of embarrassment as this was not a welcome legacy of Bristol's period as the Green Capital. \u00a0It could be, of course, that Bristol's schools are just showing discernment.<\/p>\n<p>I sat next to Fred, the engaging orang-utan, who'd brought along his ventriloquist, Stephanie Roinier. \u00a0Fred, aided by Stephanie (and Tom who used to work for the Natural History Unit and who had a huge\u00a0bundle\u00a0of super-nice pics to share with us) stole the show. \u00a0You'll find Fred on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2iVN9sj_qnc\">YouTube<\/a>\u00a0talking about the evils of palm oil, and he's on Facebook as well.<\/p>\n<p>Then there was <em><strong>sustainableshaun.com<\/strong><\/em> c\/o Aardman. \u00a0I've yet to explore this, but it's all about Shaun building an eco-friendly place to live and it comes via <em><strong>sustainable learning.com<\/strong> <\/em>which explores the Green Capital legacy \u2013 what there is of it.<\/p>\n<p>There were calls for more TeachMeets. \u00a0Next time, I hope that teachers are given more of an opportunity to share\u00a0what they do. \u00a0After all, it is what TeachMeets are supposed to be about.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was rather uncharitable (quite uncharacteristically, so, I thought) about the Bristol TeachMeet last Thursday evening. \u00a0I'm happy to report that some 9 teachers did turn up. \u00a0I'm less happy to note that hardly any of them had heard of...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}