Bristol City Council Community Learning
Assessment and the Art of Lazy Teaching
- Hungry like the wolf (to try out new assessment strategies).
- The presenter took us down into his academic dungeon and whipped us into shape.
- Dropping one of those effervescence tablets into a glass of water.
- I’m so excited to start the new academic year and use some of the ideas from today. It will have a big impact on my teaching.
- My shoes were dancing without me.
- We are going to implement some of these new assessment tools and ways of creating learning outcomes which are attitude focused.
- I’m going to use the discovery demonstration strategy in my practical lesson.
- Quality Street. Pick & Mix. Lovely!
- Great pack of ideas that will improve confidence and quality. Thank you.
- To make space to give value to students’ curiosity – making it their journey. They are their own best resource.
- Choosing when to share the learning outcomes was a particularly good point as was the idea of going from one end of the carpet to the other.
Learning Outcomes for Independent Learning
- ‘Feeding the ducks’ – scattering handfuls of goodies in front of greedy, chatty ducklings.
- It was like an express train reminding me of many things I’d forgotten – and adding new ideas.
- Hadn’t thought of ‘attitude’ before. Will try to incorporate this and try new teaching techniques (even if they don’t work well at first!)
- Consider ways in which to combine Brain, Body & Attitude & not to confuse learning outcomes with performance criteria.
- Flying through clouds toward bright new horizons.
- Changing the ‘chug along’ motor for a gleaming sleek Daimler.
- Really useful but pleasantly challenging.
- Consider how I can encourage learners to think for themselves / interact with each other before automatically asking me for answers.
- Tasty as the chocolate cake.
- Write and prepare my lesson plan with achievable outcomes and focusing on how to teach.
- Thank you – your enthusiasm for this subject is contagious!
- All excellent. I’ve had an excellent morning. Thoroughly enjoyed the session.
- Curiosity did not kill the cat – pleased and excited that curiosity featured highly.
- Attitudinal LOs linked to skills. Refresher on checking LOs and being clear, creative and relevant.
- Thanks – enthusiastic delivery energised for star of the year.
- Colour coding label verb outcome, attitude, curiosity. Use their understanding too – verb-skill “curiosity”.
- A flower opening its petals to a sunshine of sense (learner experience rather than bureaucracy.)
- I don’t/didn’t write LOs but will try doing it in future.
- Shopping trip putting new items into basket.
- A very fizzy bottle of pop.
Ofsted Ready
- A sat nav. for self reflection on our strengths and weakness as a centre! “Turning a weakness into a strength.”
- Bringing transformation to the attention of an Ofsted inspector.
Thinking ‘wildly’ outside the box for inspiration. - “Tackle” Ofsted in a positive way – not wait for things to happen, but have things in place – e.g. reflections on how to improve things (not at the end of a course or unit but at the time when issues materialise).
- Food for thought. The use of wiki was really good and it was great to see what others had written.
- Taking the horse by its reins. That we can take control of the OFSTED process by actively working together to improve our service.
- It was interesting to step into the inspector’s shoes for once, rather than being on the back foot.
- It’s OK to put your head above the parapet in preparation for an OFSTED inspection… This is the issues I had – this is what I did about it – this is how/why it it better – this is the research I did to make the improvements.
- Challenged. Inspired. Keep the momentum going and organise the action research projects and the feedback.
- Coming out of the shadows. An interesting first part of the session in which the trainer shared his experiences and insight into Ofsted inspections and what they really are looking for. Useful for me as I have not experienced one.
- How I might be able to influence the inspection / observation.
- An exchange of ideas about approaches to teaching British values.
- Turn my weakness into a strength. Feeling inspired to turn my weaknesses around and enhance the learning experience
- I liked working from an aspirational statement as a starting point.
- It was intense and challenging at times, but also highly informative and made me think and reflect!
- It felt like a bit of an uphill struggle through a jungle at the start but in the second half the terrain got easier and by the end I had emerged to a bright clearing where I could see much further! To see areas that need improvement as opportunities.
- A better understanding of what Ofsted inspectors want to see and how to direct the conversation with them so they get a clear picture of our quality improvement actions.
- It was good to explore different research themes and consider what an outstanding Ofsted report might be phrased. Think about what Ofsted look for in “Outstanding” and how can I move from where I am now towards that.
- Having the EIF document summarised and colour coded was really useful.
- Encouraged that I can work with my team to improve the learning culture for our students, especially in terms of attitude to attendance .
- The whole experience was enjoyable and informative. A better understanding of what an OFSTED inspector would be looking for.
- Made me think about how I can control an inspection and not be overwhelmed. There is always help if you ask.
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