Learning motivation: designing unmissable experiences
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Abingdon and Witney College
- “Design learning experience” Genius!
- Jumping out of the dark box of hell to the light, airy and positive space in my head.
- Powerful reminder to concentrate on experience and transformation.
- An enjoyable walk with fresh perspectives opening up!
Aspire Education Academy
- Gaining knowledge regarding new teaching skills. Also, I enjoyed learning about emotional learning journey. I feel that Tony provided an excellent class and a lot of brilliant knowledge.
Barnet and Southgate College
- Motivated and inspired.
- Thinking of something the learners can look forward to. It was a very interesting and inspiring session.
Blackburne House
- “Walking the learning carpet!”
- Reaching for the stars regarding our learner provision/experiences.
Bryson Futureskills
- Today has been fantastic in igniting that fire in my belly.
- I loved hearing about how a positive beginning to the learning experience during induction put learners in the right mind-set to focus and want to learn.
- I will be reflecting on my own induction and identifying how to ‘ignite’ the learning journey.
Calderdale College
- Sic itur ad astra (This one goes to the stars)
- A lightening bolt to engage learners.
- Planning for learning experiences, not lesson planning!
Chesterfield College
- This session lit up a corner of a dark room that I have just entered – and will get brighter the more I learn, teach and adapt these techniques.
- Absolutely – especially in regards to my department. Hearing new ideas, techniques and understanding and implementing approaches to learning with unmotivated/disengaged students and activities.
- Brilliant delivery and very engaging. Appreciate the lesson and enlightening.
City College Coventry
- [What might you do differently?] Everything.
- Yet another road to Damascus.
- Think big. Thank you for inspiring my staff so much 🙂
- Wow, I really enjoyed it… The reassurance that mistakes made through experimentation are ok.
City College Peterborough
- Create an unmissable experience. Plan super-exciting lessons in low times of learning calendar. Be creative! Brilliant!
- Mindset of lesson plans being considered as ‘designing learning experiences’.
- To evaluate my teaching in a more motivational way to benefit my students.
- A completely different view about how to create a scheme of work.
City of Westminster College
- It was like building a house.
Coleg Cambria
- It was the match to an extinguished fire.
Complete Skills Solutions
- Like a rollercoaster ride with no end! (This is good by the way!)
- Use language differently when talking about problems – replace symptoms with ‘issues’ – focus on curing issues and make our QIP actions now the best bits in the future.
East Coast College
- I got very excited about planning a zone experience in low points in the academic year to excite my learners.
- It was a simmering pot of ideas.
- From tiny seeds big trees grow!
- Make something exciting to look forward to each term.
Grimsby Institute
- Riding the waves on a sea of great ideas.
- I’m taking away the thin scheme of work and mapping unmissable events and motivation low points to inform planning.
Heart of Worcestershire College
- How I can look at my planning from a different angle (emotional) to improve leaner motivation.
- Think about my smiley points! SOW which is well sequenced to include emotional sticking points (January!)
- Time to reflect and think about to influence change across my college.
Hereford College of Arts
- We have been hit with a tidal wave of new ideas.
- A bit like the first week of college. Amazing, lots of things to take in, useful.
- Mind blowing! – but in a really good way!
- I am not a fan of rules – as in creative thinking. We wish to solve problems not be bound by them. You have given me some new tools to envision how I will deliver some of my sessions – Thank you!
- I have been a teacher for 20 years and an observer, I genuinely cannot think how to improve the day.
Hull College
- Feel very inspired to keep challenging myself.
- Change my SoW to remove X (low points) and replace with smile (high points)
- I was in danger of falling into a bit of a rut having reflected many a night on how to resolve the issue. Now feeling very positive. Every class is now a positive as I know I can improve the experience for both myself and the learners.
- “Teaching is not teaching”. Dare to go wild with planning. Stop boring lessons.
JTL Training
- Always informative to share a meeting with Tony, his though process is different to most in education. Another lightbulb moment.
- We have so many ideas. Concentrating on the worst engaged lesson and turning it into the most engaged lesson is now my mission.
- Like peering through the curtain to a brave new world.
- Rethink my approach to lessons that I may have subconsciously written off as “dull” and something to “plough through” .. and try to make them more engaging.
Learning Curve Group
- I enjoyed the course, I took more from the course than the content being delivered. I particularly enjoyed your on-line delivery set up and found it engaging.
Lincoln College International
- Exhilarating…
- Tap into my imagination more and always plan with the end in mind. Simplifying assignments so that I am still able to meet the deadline but my students are also just as engaged as I would like them to be without burning out.
- The teacher has become the student.
- It was like finding the soul for every future class.
MidKent College
- Light at the end of the tunnel.
- More unmissable events to look forward to on the SoW.
- It would be really nice to do a training session with my teaching staff, we will be looking into planning this.
- I was so inspired by the video at the end. It would be so amazing to do a collaborative induction term with the college.
Mode Training
- Went from a kitten to a roaring lion when sharing ideas.
- It’s not as difficult as I thought to make learning exciting.
- Add exciting lessons in known dark weeks. Take lessons outside.
- When developing SoWs, lesson plans and activities, give higher priority and consideration to what motivates my learners and not what I would necessarily find interesting.
- Think big and then plan how to modify and adapt the idea into a workable entity.
Myerscough College
- Rhizomatic.. travelled in different directions but grew and strengthened throughout.
- Lots of practical guidance and structured reflection.
Newcastle Sixth Form College
- An eye opening insight into what should have been done years ago.
- It provided me with a major understanding of motivation techniques and how I can use them to improve.
- Great applied examples.
- Re-engaged in my teaching after Xmas break.
Nottingham College
- Like being released from prison!
- Absolutely! It makes me think I need to change everything I do in terms of ‘class time’. Loved it!
- Thank you so much for reminding me why this is the best job in the world!
- I’m going to focus on making my most difficult elements of my teaching course my best.
- Honestly, this session was superb for me. It has been ages since I’ve felt completely engrossed in a training session. Thanks Tony!! Loved it.
- Honestly, the best training/CPD I have had in years. Thank you!
NPTC Group of Colleges
- A leap of faith, followed by a solid landing! It was excellent. Probably the most inspirational INSET session I’ve experienced in years (the last one I valued this highly was about 20 years ago!!).
- AWESOME!
- Feels like a metamorphosis!
- Recognise periods of low motivation in the timetable and fill them with unmissable events.
- I hope you will come back to NPTC Group of Colleges so that I have an opportunity to attend more sessions.
- A great example of good online teaching practice. I liked the way you put us at ease by describing how to use Zoom – this removed some barriers to learning (even though you may have felt you were stating the obvious). I think technology can put students off, if they are not used to it, but as tutors, we forget because we use it every day. It was a valuable experience for me to be a student in an online lesson and helped me to empathise with them.
Preston College
- Look at how to make January more exciting for the learners. Trips out. 2nd induction.
- Initial foundation blocks put into building a new vision for the SOL.
- Eye opening.
- Inspirational.
- A big warm hug.
- Rather than differently, it has reassured me how important it is to meet learners’ needs.
Sparholt College
- Loved it. Super useful.
- Eye-opening experience – feel I can implement it in my interactions.
- Our curriculum is too boring.
- Radical reform if initial delivery. Learning key elements: ideas, research …
Fantastic, inspiring – will implement. - An experience for students. Interdepartmental working. Exciting.
St Helens Chamber
- Excellent session that has given me food for thought to refresh my session plans.
- When Covid restrictions allow, would love to do this session in a traditional classroom environment.
Stoke College
- Blown my mind. An awakening.
- I came in with an expectation. I left having had an experience like a child getting on a ride for the first time.
- [I need to] Make my boring lessons more exciting to motivate my students.
- “This is how learners will be different” – change attitude.
- Most intriguing set training we have had that actually made me reflect on practice rather than just go over things done in teacher training.
Quest Training
- Really good and fab extra resources.
- I am attending all the courses I can Tony runs as I feel they all link into each other really well. I am using this to try to update the thinking and practical ways of teaching we use in our organisation.
- I have definitely embraced a new approach of designing experiences and not lessons. I will definitely start at the beginning and change the experiences and the curiosity for learning and development.
- I was engaged and felt included and involved at my own pace.
Southport College
- It was like being 16 again – a world of possibilities.
Learning is like solving a puzzle. You think you have experience and know it all, but it is not true. So many things we were discussing today including the distinction between issues and symptoms, which I never thought about, or where happiness and stress come from, and how I can apply this knowledge when I plan my lessons for CL English courses. - Fireworks!
- Tony is the king of learning motivation. Brilliant speaker and a lovely personality.
Sparsholt College
- Loved it. Super useful.
- Eye-opening experience – feel I can implement it in my interactions.
- Our curriculum is too boring.
- Radical reform if initial delivery. Learning key elements: ideas, research …
Fantastic, inspiring – will implement.
St Helens Adult & Community Learning
- I’ve really enjoyed it and am leaving this room as high as a kite!
The Learning Foundry
- Mind opening.
- I struggle to think outside the box and be creative. This morning’s session has encouraged me to have more creative freedom. I really enjoyed this session.
- Introduce more hands-on experiences to engage and motivate learners.
- Think outside the box when trying to engage learners – plan ahead for key points of lack of knowledge and put exciting plans in place.
- Fantastic session 🙂 To motivate others, first learn to motivate ourselves… by giving small exciting goals for the future. Great day again.
The Oxford Partnership (Saudi Arabia)
- 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.
Trafford College
- Exhilarated! [I need to] Stop ticking boxes and plan lessons/courses that develop curiosity and deal with the ‘why?’
- Stratospheric. Inspirational. Thank you for reigniting my enthusiasm.
- Concepts: unmissable events; visceral learning; preventable contact; skills and attitudes towards study; creating zone experiences; formula for happiness.
- Expanded horizons. Brilliant paced content. Thank you!
- It made me look at the year and planning differently. I will look at the order in which I plan and approach a year. Develop skill, assess understanding knowledge.
York College
- I was in the undergrowth of my garden all over again at the start of this session – by the end of it I had a glass of wine in hand, smiling.
- I become even more motivated to make my students proud of what they can achieve, and to be able to have a chat in the breakout rooms is great as it gives a succinct amount of time to talk about specifics of a subject – brilliant. I am now going to take on January like never before and the students are going to get a wonderful surprize – just haven’t decided exactly what yet but it is going to be great!
- It is really great to hear other people’s idea’s and get to talk to others who are just as committed and passionate about education – blooming wonderful.
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