Sparsholt College

Assessment & the Art of Lazy Teaching

  • They (The Fifty Shade of Assessment) can be integrated into lessons more easily and are less time consuming than I thought. I will try and see them as teaching rather than just assessing.
  • The session was well thought out, especially since (as it turns out) teachers don’t make the best learners!
  • Can really see the value of this particular training being delivered face-to-face, though appreciated the thoughtfulness and attention to detail in adapting to online.

HoT Learning

  • Apprehensive about the content of the session, but fully engaged and interested for the whole time.
  • Enjoyable, interesting, eye opening.
  • Beyond expectations.
  • Liked the opening about achieving happiness – kept me thinking throughout session and wanted to get to the end.
  • A fantastic in-the-zone journey!
  • Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get!
  • A ray of sunshine.
  • Will try and let my students fly more.
  • Good use of wiki and new strategies.
  • I was in the zone for most of the lesson!
  • A toolkit to improvement.
  • Very inspired by zone experience.

HoT2 – Techniques for engaging learners

  • Like a high-energy snack halfway through a very long migration.
  • I will develop some of the strategies I have never used before to make my teaching more varied.
  • Like finishing a set of directions towards the light at the end of the tunnel.
  • The motivation has given me food for thought to start the year as I mean to go on and try to develop more and better teaching strategies.
  • Bumper cars of ideas.
  • Thanks – most useful CPD in ages!
  • They were all buzzing with ideas of how to improve their teaching, and you had buy in from all, some of whom were in their first year of teaching, and some in their 20th year!
  • Like a breath of fresh air providing the answer to a long-standing question.
  • I am full of ideas that I look forward to using.
  • I love the envelope full of new innovative tasks for teaching.
  • Makes a change to be inspired by staff development, not depressed!
  • Rather than being told you have to change your teaching, we were given ideas as to how to.
  • Eureka moments.

Learning Motivation

  • 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.
  • Some real plans that I will put into action.
  • The need to take responsibility to foster the aspirations from students.
  • Start big then make it realistic.

Learning Outcomes for Independent Learning

  • I am now going to put this into my practice, ensuring every outcome has a skill, outcome and label.
  • General pedagogy, inspiring learning, engaging students.
  • A plant leaf from the outside has a really simple form but when you delve inside the composition and function of its inner workings are much more complex. Such a simple structure has such overarching importance for the growth of a plant. Lesson outcomes are fundamentally important to the transformation and growth of your learners.
  • Like a kid in a candy shop – thank you for the useful tips and lots of ideas to teach independent learning!
  • A lot to think about this morning and some things I can take away and use. Firstly, developing Meerkat Moments to create curiosity in learners. Secondly, to use more ‘body’ experiences when teaching dry theory based content. And finally, to revamp my learning outcomes to ensure all three colours/themes are included.
  • Absolutely. Fairly new to teaching and so this has made me look with fresh approach on how I structure my lessons from the outset. Definitely will approach from an attitudinal perspective in future.
  • Definitely – very useful in linking the specifications with the independent learning skills, starting from writing the learning outcome in the SOW to pose the key questions to the learners in the classroom. Hence I will be revisiting the learning outcomes in the SOW and key questions; try to incorporate the three types of learning outcome if possible in the lessons.
  • Very enjoyable and I felt the use of so many different interactive resources really added value and aided learning.
  • I will definitely be signing up for more courses run by Tony as I found his style very engaging and informative.

The Self-Assessment Flip

  • A great journey, full of excellent ideas.
  • Excellent use of games.
  • Fun and creative.
  • The however concept is fundamental.

Bespoke Quality System Training

  • The two days were nothing less than brilliant.
  • You have made a great impact upon the management team.

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