Leicester College
Assessment & the Art of Lazy Teaching
- Forget ‘food for thought’ – this was a banquet!
- Building a house, starting from the foundation and moving up.
- Learning is like cracking a code – today you have given us the code to 47 effective assessment tools.
- Motivating and invigorating.
- Like a rainbow floating through the classroom.
- Teaching is a never ending journey, you are always learning new skills and techniques.
- Learning is a process of knowledge and inspiration.
- Your motivation inspired me – to reflect and look at ahead.
- Teach a baby to walk.
- It’s been an enjoyable session today. Took in a lot of different teaching strategies which I could use in a teaching career. One of the best things about the session is that it is very engaging with the breakout rooms and with other teachers which keeps everyone active and not only can we learn from the strategies shown by Tony Davis, we also learn how other teachers implement these strategies into their lessons or they give examples of strategies that they have used. So overall, very beneficial. The host of the session was really positive and filled with enthusiasm which really motivated everyone and kept them engaged in the session.
- Lightening bolt.
- It helped me understand formative assessment.
- Sometimes you need to take time out to revisit/reassess what you are doing in the classroom. This session certainly did that in terms of formative assessment and the extensive range of strategies linked to it.
- As a prospective teacher, starting my PGCE in September, the session introduced me to some concepts about the teacher/learner relationship and the process of ‘learning’ itself that I had never explored before. I had no idea that so much theory went into planning a successful lesson – I also was able to learn the names for methods of formative practices that were already familiar to me from my time at school/university. I felt the session provided me with a foundation on which I will start to build upon as I train to become a confident, dynamic and innovative teacher.
- The session was very useful and allowed me to reflect and learn new assessment strategies. Collaborating with others was really helpful. I would like to experiment some of the techniques and strategies learnt from today with the learners I teach.
- I will use strategies that put more emphasis on the students being enquirers, deep thinkers and reflectors and ones that help them with developing skills they can use in life. I want students to become inspired to take charge of their futures and not just accept the status quo.
- I really enjoyed it – it was interactive, informative and fun. Would love more sessions like this.
- I initially found the length of the session daunting but it was planned really well with a variety of activities and discussion groups so that the time virtually flew by!
Independent Learning
- An enjoyable and inspiring event offering alternatives to enthuse and engage learners.
Inspiring Induction Practices
- The flames of inspiration shot up faster than a trio of lightning bolts.
- I don’t directly deliver as I am a contract manager for our sub-contractors but this has been useful and inspirational and will enable me to provide our sub-contractors with ideas and understanding.
Learning Outcomes for Independent Learning
- Absolutely fab session. Obtaining a clear colour coded structure to write effective outcomes is going to transform my planning and make it so much more efficient, just changing the verb to a skill makes so much more sense creating clearer direction to a key focus of the session.
- The differentiation of writing outcomes that support resilience, curiosity etc will be a challenge, I can see this having a real positive outcome of my students learning journey.
Perfecting Progress Reviews
- Learner driven. Helps learner to take ownership of their journey and progress as they are helping to set targets.
- Opened the mind.
- More relaxed atmosphere and use conversations, rather than ‘boxes’ to gain information.
- I would love to shadow you for a day. You were very inspiring. (We had a chat. I will look at the Red system.)
- Flipping the responsibility for reviews, ‘Apprentices are not employees’.
- Ask apprentices to complete their review forms in advance of my visit and get them to lead the review.
- Walking up a hill in a new place visited.
- Your words are music to my ears!
- To concentrate less on ‘stuff’ and more on ‘Difference’. Relook at outcome setting. How to use ellipses when doing reviews. Also to have more learner-led reviews.
- I didn’t realise how much I fuel my questions to get an answer they don’t necessarily like to give. I need to pass the mic.
- I really enjoyed this, I’ve learnt so much about myself and how I’d like to teach. How you join the room back together is fantastic.
Perfecting Self-Assessment Writing
- Last year was my first real year of writing the College SAR and QIP from scratch, the previous one was a tweak. Although I was much happier with it and the feedback that I received from the external moderator was really helpful in terms of development, I know that there is still improvement required. I feel that today’s session has given me some further tools to use in order to do this.
- I am considering how, as a College, we can use this training to support curriculum/departments in writing their SARs.
Supercharged Evaluation Skills
- A light has activated to show the way.
- Changed my perception of differentiation. The most productive training event attended in a long while.
- A rolling stone gathers no moss. I’m rolling faster and better.
- An enjoyable, warm, informative and friendly experience.
- Mountain climbing – came for a stroll, ended up with an enduring journey.
- Comprehensive and entertaining.
- Highly stimulating!
- Good resources, well structured, interesting.
- Seeing something new and exciting for the first time.
- A motivating, honest and achievable session that creates ideas!
- Significant, incredible and thought-provoking session.
- I feel completely recharged to start using this in practical and theoretical sessions with my students.
- I feel the session is exceptionally inspiring and well planned. It will help me improve in the future.
- Like looking down binoculars to see something closer than I have previously had at a distance.
- Like a breath of fresh air.
- Opened my eyes to how small the foundation work to be done with learners needs to be.
- Enlightening – has given me a renewed enthusiasm.
- Session planning will be more exciting, and each session will be more evaluative.
- Purple pen is the new black pen!
- It will support me when I write documents on different topics. I will think about how I can include colours to better convey the message I hope to share.
- Like gold, it certainly was J.
- This session has inspired me to motivate my learners to look at language in a more colourful way.
- I will be able to plan my lessons where ALL my learners will achieve the targets more effectively.
- “I was blind, now I can see, you made a believer out of me.” B. Galesby, Primal Scream.
- A fresh vision of the summit.
- Really refreshing and important session.
- Like being a teacher with some room to breath! J.
- The Butterfly Effect.
- Very thought-provoking and impactful – will definitely lead to changes in expectations.
- Energising.
- Fab-u-lous!
- I’ll never write a sentence again without making it work far harder. Blue, red, green, purple!
The Art of Using Target Setting
- The art of growth is different for everyone. Continue with students to take ownership.
- Very useful, very good, incredibly articulate.
- Better than I thought.
- A runner that is starting to run in ‘the zone’.
- I will consider the 3 categories of aspiration: progression, skills and knowledge.
- Being more mindful of creating a desire for students to achieve as it makes a difference..
- Inspiring. Thank you for today. It has been a pleasure to listen and learn from you.
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