The Heureka Workshops - some "hints" for organizers of the non-traditional conference for physic teachers
Abstract
How to prepare a conference which takes the form of a set of workshops prepared and led by the teachers themselves? How should it be organized? What is essential, and what is not necessary? The experience from organizing this type of conference in the Czech Republic will be presented. The conference "The Heureka Workshops" has been going on since 2002.
Despite the very informal character of this meeting (the conference venue is a school in a small town Nachod in East Bohemia, participants sleep in their sleeping bags, no welcome drink and conference dinner are organized); there are usually almost one hundred participants in attendance. This conference is open not only for participants from the Heureka Project, but also for guests - from the Czech Republic and from abroad.
The whole event is very active and according to our colleagues from abroad who attended it, its character is in a sense unique even in comparison with teachers' conferences and meetings in other countries.