NESCOT

Data Springboard

  • Unmissable.
  • Valuable insight from a very experienced inspector and teacher.

Grade 1 Leadership and Management

  • Tony was like a Cheshire cat; provoking curiosity and a desire to find a way out of the madness.
  • Inspired to be curious
  • Inspirational talk. The symptoms vs issues debate and implications was enlightening.
  • Lots of food for thought.
  • A bookshelf full of ideas.
  • Enlightening moment of clarity.

Inspiring Induction Practices

  • Unlike ‘footprints in the sand’, this will hopefully stay in my brain!
  • One of the first training courses that kept my interest throughout!
  • A twisting, green-slimy feeling of guilt and abject excitement.
  • It reignited my desire to create a dynamic induction for learners and not on a mechanism for delivering dry college policies.
  • This was far better than a toolkit of activities!
  • Icing on the cake – my induction is the cake – the session today is the icing.
  • Teaching backwards – start with the end in mind.
  • It reaffirms some key messages and ideas, but shifts thinking about impact – a good focus.
  • The induction experience needs to be motivating enough to make learners curious!
  • New ideas to make ‘expert learners’.
  • I could tell by the buzz that colleagues were engaging with this.
  • A rich and stimulating event that engaged everyone.
  • A paradigm shift – thinking much more about impact on students and exciting ways of achieving real impact.
  • Out of the box – in the zone.
  • Fuelled my imagination for developing more creative ways of delivery for induction. Also helped me pin point what I want my induction phase to achieve.
  • Interesting and thought provoking.
  • A rethink of induction.
  • Aspirational.

Perfecting Self-Assessment Writing

  • Finding more clarity in the mist.
  • Really helpful.
  • Enlightening.
  • Sunshine on a cloudy day.

Supercharged Evaluation Skills

  • Enlightening.
  • The pieces that were missing from the jigsaw puzzle have been found!
  • Inspirational. Also given me a sense of relief that this approach to education and learning is being promoted at Nescot.
  • Extremely interesting.
  • Colourful journey which will make me consider my text more carefully.
  • Too short!
  • Like opening a window and having the sun illuminate the room where before there was only a candle.
  • Fascinated by new routes.
  • Excellent session – different, but simple.

Transformational Lesson Observation

  • The meerkats have landed.
  • A Phoenix from the ashes!
  • Transformational.
  • Inspired to transform T&L.
  • Have much greater confidence in valuing and evaluating the impact.
  • Felt suitably challenged by activities but appropriately supported and pleased with own learning journey!
  • Impact is King.
  • Reaching for the stars (stars being the teachers).
  • Like emerging from a rain cloud into the sunshine!
  • Shift of paradigm for the college.
  • This helped immediately calm my concerns about observing teaching.

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