The Oxford Partnership (Saudi Arabia)
Assessment & the Art of Lazy Teaching
- Good assessment is like a light bulb moment for the teacher and students.
- Formative assessment can really become part of the lesson and blur the line of lesson and assessment.
- This workshop showed how I can use formative assessment by giving Students the control of their own journey, which many teachers find difficult. To become a facilitator in essence and helping students develop higher-level thinking and critique instead of the teacher takin on the extra workload.
- Tony has put into words what I strongly believe, students can develop if they know how to analyze themselves, and he has given me 47 strategies to work with, Thank-you.
- I would like to thank you for the interesting workshop yesterday. I enjoyed the topics being discussed and it was a great chance for me to with meet people from different countries with different educational backgrounds.
- It was an enlightening workshop.
- Learning is like collecting sea shells, and I am glad to have attended your training session today to collect a lot of new sea shells on assessment strategies – all set to apply them in my classroom.
- It gave me a whole new range of assessment strategies and now I feel confident to climb one step ahead in my mountainous journey of assessment. I would love to include the new strategies I learnt in today’s session.
- Change is a journey best undertaken with a skilled guide.
- I will add the different concepts of Assessment technologies which I learned.
Also, I shall integrate two or more strategies together in one lesson. - The most important change I want to make is incorporating assessments into my teaching strategies, and to check that learning outcomes are achieved through teaching and assessment.
- Thank you for an inspiring course. I look forward to the next one.
- Fabulous.
- Fantastic.
- I will integrate strategies learned in my lessons to monitor student’s learning during on going sessions and after reflecting, improve my lesson plans accordingly rather than relying on end of lesson assessment only.
- The way you run the session, gives me an idea how my session need to be going with my students.
Learning Motivation
- It was an enlightening session today. Thought-provoking ideas were discussed to improve students’ motivation.
- A search for hidden treasure.
- Particularly when we were asked to think of an event at the end of 6 weeks of study. I will in future come up with some ideas which impact students’ motivation for learning. Create an event or something that really attracts them.
- It was great, and you provided brilliant ideas.
- I learnt today that the most valuable tools in my learning tool kit are those integrated together to think out of the box to live the adventure and do the impossible to live a real-life story in my classroom as if telling a story of Peter Pan. It is risky and challenging but who said teaching is easy.
- I Shall incorporate the new strategies to motivate the students which I learned in this session.
- I climbed another milestone by learning to imagine big ideas and then how to narrow them down to realistic ideas.
- It has made me think in two ways and has given a whole new perspective to look at the students being demotivated and what can be done to address the issue.
- A new idea is the spark that lights an eternal flame.
- I would start with differentiating between the symptom and the issue. However, some issues have been identified as system or structural issues, for example, recruitment. I do think that this course has provided amazing me with some ideas to guiding the students in building their portfolios. One way of doing this is to have students involved in a writing and research project that will lead to the publication and/or broadcast of their work.
- It would be beneficial if our institutions adopted some of the outcomes that the course outlines in the broader scheme of our own work. In Saudi, our Vocational Programme lacks the intense practical showcase of our work, so that would be another area that needs support.
- Keep up the good work. It would be amazing if we could have ongoing development of our skills so that there is an awareness of how much we’ve been able to incorporate the new learning into the way we do things.
- It was a roller coaster ride but I appreciated the moments that were challenging my creativity and ability to provide an unforgettable learning experience.
- I enjoy being creative with my lessons but now I think I would say I can identify the ways I could use what my students enjoy and incorporate that into how I create my lessons so as to give them a sense of control and offer varied experiences.
- Stretching my creativity skills to harness student interest.
- A great collection of online learning technology resources available and clear instructions on using them.
Learning Outcomes for Independent Learning
- This different perspective will make a huge difference not only in the quality of my lesson plans, but I now fully understand the range of writing quality outcomes.
- Be prepared to ask uncomfortable SMART questions.
- To try to use Attitude objectives (Which I really thought didn’t exist, but only in my mind and when I used them in class I would never mention it to anyone). Finally, not to be afraid to put them onto a Lesson Plan and justify my position.
- I always struggled with developing Learning outcomes for independent learning in skills sessions. Today’s session helped me realise where I went wrong. Thank you very much Tony.
- It was an enlightening session as it contained loads of good ideas and the activities that were done. I would adopt most of the new items that have been discussed.
- The journey was “very colorful” which brought lot of bright colors and new ideas.
- I shall incorporate the new ideas which I learnt today and change the way of writing outcomes in my lesson plans and structure of lesson.
- It was a session with very focused and practical tips for teachers/trainers.
- I really liked the way you demonstrated how the wording of learning outcomes influences on teaching strategy for the better.
- EXCELLENT.
- I felt welcomed, engaged, encouraged, corrected and validated and having entered and completed that session I am now changed in the sense of the knowledge attained.
- This different perspective will make a huge difference not only in the quality of my lesson plans, but I now fully understand the range of writing quality outcomes.
Learning Theorists and the Emotional Learning Journey
- Excellent.
- It’s not about planning lessons, but it is about planning experiences.
- That workshop was a game-changer for me.
- Learning is like building a house – all parts are integrated with each other.
- I learnt that Connectivism seems to integrate advances in neuroscience and learning. It takes into account the behaviours of learners in the “digital age” in an explicit way that is absent in other theories.
- I was glad that at the end of the workshop I was able to figure out the suitable strategy for one of the addressed challenges. I was impressed my self 😀
- I’ll return to the materials as a great source. It provides me with a new vision of how to choose the best strategies.
- This session was very helpful for me to learn new type of teaching strategies. And learnt how and when I can use them in my lessons.
Perfecting Development-Plan Writing
- A new idea is the spark that lights an eternal flame.
- The development form shared is very useful and practical organizing the information and targets to meet the objectives.
- Excellent.
- I would like to change the perspective of only working on weakness but focus on strengths and become champion.
- Self dissection.
- I will be better able to explore and assess my development plans in future. And will be able to resolve symptoms and identify their root cause issue.
- Differentiate between symptom and issues.
- It helped me climb another milestone for perfecting development plan writing and also I caught a golden fish by getting my hands on your development plan – its so awesome!
- It help me to understand the wobble moments and how to work on the root causes of the symptoms and work on these indicators to write objectives.
- Sailing exploring new land.
- Now I can differentiate between issues and symptoms and suggest solutions accordingly.
- Thank you for the rich session.
- It was a great session providing a clearer understanding of issues and symptoms as this is the key to achieving target/s, so in the future, I will be in a better position to identity symptoms and work on them before they cause serious problems and halt the progression.
Perfecting Progress Reviews
- Your art work is a master piece only you can sometimes see. Perfecting progress reviews is what you and your team (students) want your masterpiece to look like, and the difference you want to make to help them become that artist.
- It was an inspirational lesson as always, focusing on letting the learner have autonomy of her learning, in a very conscious way.
- The slides were brilliant.
- Skill smart.
- Fantastic. I will do this more frequently to improve my students performance and making them more independent.
- The video analysis and discussion was so helpful realizing how it need to be done.
- Enlightening.
- I am feeling UP.
Perfecting Self-Assessment Writing
- The new insight to self assessment will help a lot.
- This session helps me first of all to know what is self assessment and then to understand the concept of it. English is not my mother tongue language and at the beginning I had the thought that I should not be part of this course. Then after you checked on my understanding I realized that it does not have anything about the language. It is definitively going to improve my self assessment in both French and English. And, surely motivate me to start to work on my writing skills.
- Thank you very much Tony for your kindness, patience, positive energy and all the skills you shared today with us.
- I would say that today’s session was full of beneficial information & useful resources. I am fully loaded with the essential Self assessment writing skills along with the formula for writing judgements to produce impact-focused text.
- In the future, it will prove very beneficial for me to be able to write an effective Self Assessment Report. I am now well aware of the do’s and don’ts and understand how to avoid the typical mistakes while writing a Self Assessment.
Preparing for Live Self Assessment
- Two days well spent. Training that was really meaningful.
- I appreciate now that self assessment isn’t about describing and re-writing what we do or to set up ourselves and our systems as perfect.
- The sessions were brilliantly delivered. Tony is extremely knowledgeable and his approach is sensitive and encouraging.
- Using (self) assessment to improve student learning.
- A sponge. Tried to absorb as much as I could.
- I will always consider the impact on the learner and write clear judgements.
The Art of Using Target Setting
- It was an amazing session!!
- It has given me a more clear picture for target setting and I would plan this in the Individual Learning Plans of my trainees where they will be filling in details and setting targets for themselves which would be then reviewed regularly to see where they have reached. Definitely, not all will be on the same page, so, I would have one-on-one sessions to help them to get back on track again.
- It was perfect, especially the target setting skill builder which I’m going to use with my trainees in the future. I would like to have some training sessions on online teaching or how to make it more interactive and engaging.
- It was an amazing session that gave me an opportunity to feel things as a learner, so, in the future when I will use target setting I will ensure that learners understand the whole process and do it for themselves for better ownership and its implementation for a better outcome.
The CCQI Self-Assessment Strategy
- Invigorating experience. Stimulating, got me thinking about aspects I never paid attention to before.
- Exciting.
- It made me realize to work on root-causes and not jumping to solutions.
- It was an eye-opener in many ways and I am sure it will help us make our students have a wonderful and rewarding learning journey.
- It helped me realize that there is a solution for everything if we follow the process in its true spirit.
- It was a wonderful training experience and I felt that time just flew as always.
- The clear identification of symptoms and issues was very helpful.
- Challenging. Never thought self assessment could be done in such detail.
Tools for Online Engagement
- Fabulous.
- Very excited. It was a fabulous session. I will be giving a try to some of the new technologies I learned today to use and implement for teaching purposes to engage and connect my students in a better way.
- Learning new stuff; new technological tools to be specific, is like a motivation trigger for trying them afterwards.
- Today’s lesson was like climbing a mountain. It was daunting at first and wondered if I’d understand it all but once I reached the ‘top of the mountain’ I was elated because I have learned something new and can identify what resources can be used and its impact on students.
- I will include more online tools to engage my students and make the lessons more fun as they enjoy games. They learn concepts easily when it is a game or where they need to engage in dialogue.
- I would be using all the online tools I have learnt today, however, 3 in each lesson would be more than enough (because each session is 50 minutes only).
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