St Helens & Knowsley College
Assessment & the Art of Lazy Teaching
- Unlocking the door on my learning palace to pedagogy garden beyond.
- I felt that my assessment strategies were effective coming into this session but an open mind has allowed me to see the rich variety of potentially much better strategies to improve learners’ outcomes.
- The discussions around learning outcomes was especially useful.
- Always remember the key objective to be ‘How do I want them to have changed by the end of session?’
- I have acquired multiple new assessment strategies and began adapting existing lesson plans with them.
- Confidence building. This training provided me with lots of great information that supported my teaching style and way of thinking of what teaching should be.
- This helped me think differently as a new teacher about how students will feel in my sessions and how I can help.
- Continuously getting learners to critically analyse their work, avoid telling them what to do and focus on how to improve.
- Ground-breaking.
- Everything – I’m going to attempt to change key lessons that are very theoretical.
- I would like to go through the strategies in my own time and do some experiments with them in my own teaching – especially liked: provocation/trick question/‘Gapped handout from the start’. I also appreciated the guidance about learning outcomes. I liked the anecdotes – the ‘tell me how’ demonstration, the price tag, the trick question – stories help me take on concepts & ideas.
- Got so many quick new ideas.
- Fun way to learn!
- Meerkat moments. Curiosity triggering. Development of expert independent learning skills.
- This afternoon was a light bulb moment.
- Inspired but not overwhelmed by the work I need to do to adapt.
- Assessments are more than meets the eye. The fog has lifted and I can now clearly see the importance of varied assessments.
- High performance fuel for the brain!
- Rekindling the flame of pedagogy.
- Blew my mind! Totally different perspective on LO.
Learning Outcomes for Independent Learning
- Dismantling the car and re-building it better.
- My initial confidence in objective writing was exposed as being only partially formed, As a result of this session I will strive to move both learners and myself out of our comfort zones of cognitive skills development towards attitude and behaviour development too. If I really want to build learners’ independent skills then I need to consider the whole person and not just the exam focused skills.
- A solid blend of reinforcing my good practice whilst challenging me to continuously improve. This session has altered my conception of the purpose of learning outcomes and lesson objectives.
- Adding the the gravy to my pedagogical pudding and chips.
- Challenge staff (and myself) to think differently about learning objectives – what do we really want learners to walk away from our lessons with?
The Art of Using Target Setting
- Inspirational methods alternative thinking.
- Engaging tasks, informative content, and great links to the art of teaching.
- Thank you for opening the path to good practice, we just need to walk down it now.
- Encourage more stretching targets for lower level learners.
- Like pressing the reset button on the principles of target setting.
- I will work with senior managers to review and re-write our traget setting strategy.
- We need to move away from ticking procedural boxes to igniting purpose and ambition by empowering learners to be their own project managers.
- Learning is like building a house. Using this training to support other staff, In my quality role as I support and induct new teachers, this has been extremely useful.
- Interesting, refreshing, encouraging and smile provoking 🙂
- An Eye-opener.
- Encouraging learners to take ownership and responsibility for their learning journey, through effective target setting.
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