Southport College
Assessment & the Art of Lazy Teaching
- I was a candle fluttering in the dark, now I am a mountain.
- I will use lots of the assessment strategies within sessions.
- The best inset event we have had for years.
- This afternoon was stimulating and full of good ideas, like a burst of cerebral sparks.
- Really enjoyable afternoon – excellent “real life” examples of teaching and learning.
- My learning journey has unlocked a door into an exciting new world today.
- Loved the game approach to the session: application of what is promoted, which does not always happen. It was original and stimulating.
- A chocolate orange of ideas – tapped and unwrapped ideas today.
- Enlightening – for a non-creative teacher.
- Being a detectorist.
- Keep up the brilliant work!
- My mind is now a treasure trove of ideas!
- A whole lot of teaching strategies to ignite curiosity and create meerkat moments.
- Incredibly useful and engaging tasks, really felt I learned something new.
- Great fun using the cards for the games.
- Outstanding!
- As I am doing my Cert Ed it has been eye opening and a learning curve for the future.
- Lots of great strategies, easy to adapt and fab for the students.
- With effective strategies, less planning time is required.
- Fantastic tips and ideas to improve my assessment strategies.
- Loads of strategies I have now to use for future classes and to use with apprentices.
- Recipe for success.
- Really informative and enjoyable.
- Full speed ahead.
- Sparked my inner flame.
- Inspirational.
- Refreshing!!
- Emotional learning journeys for learners and attitudes to learning attitudes!
- Fabulous, Thank you.
- This session provided a springboard for independent research, for sure.
Learning Motivation
- 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!
- A swim through refreshing waters.
- Tony is the king of learning motivation.
- Inspirational.
- To plan for periods when motivation is lacking, ie: January.
- It made me think more clearly about where dips in motivation are and how to address them.
- It has inspired me to be more creative in my approach to planning exciting sessions for less exciting topics. I particularly liked the idea of removing limitations for the initial idea and then thinking of how to recreate it within the limitations.
- It was a reminder of issues that exist but some new ideas for solving. For example, the issue of some students reluctant to immerse themselves in contextual studies, writing , evaluation, reflection.
- I like the ‘big idea’ method to engage students further – already thinking of that.
- Questioning why something hasn’t gone as planned and look for a solution. I will use the short SOW to plan experiences that learners can look forward to and re-evaluate each term to identify any further changes required.
- Thank you very much. I feel as tutors we have struggled ourselves to not only keep our learners motivated through this very difficult time but remain motivated ourselves. This was the jump start that I needed in order to gain that back so that I and my team can move forward and plan for September.
- Brilliant speaker and a lovely personality.
- Need to make sure all sessions are engaging and exciting. Great ideas borne from breakout room exercises talking to different staff that I will adapt and implement.
- It has inspired me to be more creative in creating a foundation from the induction process of a new cohort to help students understand the process of their own development and the need to become independent and responsible for their own learning to reach the goals they want.
- Very inspiring and thought provoking content. Made me look at things with a different perspective.
Learning Outcomes for Independent Learning
- Labrador who sees a cooked chicken just out of reach.
- You can teach an old dog new tricks!
- A flagging bird given wings.
- Inspiring session with a true reflection of the FE learning journey.
- I will aim to implement a keen focus on attitudes and how to develop them within my session. Very thought provoking and inspirational.
- Lead to Gold.
- MOT. This has helped me sharpen my focus – I liked the stuff and difference concept and I know I’ll be considering ‘on the table’ ideas more clearly.
- It started out like a flat tyre but ended in a successful ride in a limo!
- Implement at least one expert learning trait in every learning outcome.
- I feel I have been able to spread my wings and fly with the information / understanding learnt today.
- My practice is driven by qualification criteria but these need to run underneath experiences. I want to make them more curious.
- Great ideas, lots of interesting and new ideas and really made me think.
- Add outcomes based on changing / developing learner attitude.
- Tony again teaches an old dog new tricks.
- Recipe for success.
- Eye opening.
- Excellent session.
- I will think more about independence and how to develop this in learners. Also about ‘stuff’ and ‘difference’.
- Include expert learner skills / attitudes in practice and LOs.
- Allowed me to look at creating LOs differently and the importance of LOs.
- As a 1:1 tutor this session helped me to reflect on my own practice and developing learning outcomes that will be useful and appropriate to each individual.
- Excellent speaker, very knowledgeable and passionate to develop teaching strategies.
- The mist is clearing.
Learning Theorists and the Emotional Learning Journey
- A new idea is the spark that lights an eternal flame.
- Very interesting and productive session that enabled me to understand the way different teaching strategies were linked to theorist. I think this would be a great resource for teacher training courses to lighten up a very heavy module about theorists as you are able to look at it all in a practical way.
- Provided a deeper understanding of the learner journey which was differentiated. Good range of strategies were looked into which linked to theorists’ ideas of learning and explored that range of emotions from a learner’s point of view rather than the teacher’s. Helped look at ideas in a different way and provoked different thoughts on how strategies could work from a number of different view points.
Tools for Online Engagement & Blended Learning
- This was an excellent session – very interactive and has given me lots of good ideas for things I can implement in my own teaching as well as cascade to the rest of the group.
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