Bury College
Assessment & the Art of Lazy Teaching
- It’s re-ignited my fire! (I feel inspired).
- It has changed the way I will plan my ‘learner experiences’. Brilliant session!
- Inspired to do better – to empower learners more.
- Thank you so much. I have learnt so much and am eager to put it into practice.
- Do more group work when it comes to assessment – help them to become more independent.
- Enjoyable session. Nice to have a speaker who understands the weaknesses of Ofsted feedback!
- I will review the ways I look at assessment to make it more student focused and get them to think about what they should do next.
- No longer without a paddle.
- This has been one of the best CPD sessions we have has in the 6 years I have been here. I feel all staff members should experience this session. Engaging, encouraging and effective.
- This was an enjoyable session that gave me lots of ideas to think about.
- Meerkat moments, discovery demonstration will be a definite take away.
- Informative/transformative.
- Loved the lazy teaching session, will use the strategies.
- Enthused throughout the course!
- I will look forward to trying out the different assessment strategies. I was great!
- Be more proactive to make the learner work rather than myself.
- Amazing session.
- Changing views on general TLA creating more interactive lessons that do not take much time to produce, adapting more student-led learning.
- The big one I want to explore is using ‘wiki’ in one note so I can monitor progress with assignments.
- ‘Ditching’ the objectives.
- Structure of the session very-well designed – we feel like we’ve been playing games all morning but actually learned a lot while having fun!
- Going to look again at my SoW for next academic year with “new eyes” and introduce a range of formative assessments.
- Take more ownership in designing ‘fun’ sessions. Making a difference from classroom experiences.
- “Choose risks, not ruts”
- Motivated, curious and excited.
- Inspirational. Fabulous session – highly informative, helpful and interactive!
- Always engaging and inspiring in your sessions.
Initial Assessment & Differentiation Controversy
- Providing a life jacket in an ocean of pedagogy.
- A Eureka moment. Why did I not know this before?
- I crossed the carpet and left a changed teacher!
- Too many to list – really useful and informative. Really good CPD for all experience levels.
- The importance of not always allowing student to hang onto the support until the end.
- Great delivery/fantastic session.
- Change of purpose of ILP and IA
- Another outstanding session that will have impact on my approach. Thank you!
- I’m in front of a huge appetising buffet I can’t eat all at once.
- Rethink assumptions – Thank you
- I took more from this than I expected – really opened my mindset.
- Walk on the carpet. ‘Experienced’ learners not ‘able’ learners.
- To continue to have high expectations for all learners. Really focus on the strategies I can use to get all learners to achieve.
- Great session. Very informative and presented issues that need to be challenged and how to support.
- SLT to be involved and support key concepts
- 2nd Session – attended SAR writing other week – both excellent. You talk the right language!
Perfecting Self-Assessment Writing
- It’s show time! We are ready to step up to the plate.
- I really like the concept of saying to an inspector that I would like to show you the issue I had, what I did about it and the impact it has had on my learners.
- This approach provides a framework for affective critical thinking – need to make this happen.
- Penny dropping.
- Focus more on questioning the ‘why’ behind judgement.
- Inspired curiosity and creativity.
- Curiosity sparked to review and refresh SAR process, engaging with staff team.
- I will now look for the root cause and take ownership or identify the most appropriate person in my team.
- Enlightening. This session has highlighted all the elements of SAR and Quip and how to evaluate them in a more informed way. I enjoyed all of this day.
- I can see clearly now the rain has gone.
- Different starting points, clearer analysis and actions.
- Rabbit in headlights – best find the rabbit holes!
- Much more targeted. Bring teams back in again.
- Identify the cause and cure the symptom.
- Now more ownership on ‘causes’ and how to resolve! Look for impact! Relate to the learners. More staff engagement and team ownership.
- Found the session really useful. Very reflective and have identified many areas to improve!
- Looked at process completely differently. Really interesting – issue + symptom.
- Very informative. I will be looking at root-causes more than the symptoms.
- Sparked thoughtful discussions.
- Involve the team and have champions. Reduce the document, not enlarge it.
- Cheap as chips. Logical structure to support ‘cheap’ quality improvement. Really well delivered.
- Transformational. Will be adopting a more methodical approach to evaluation of performance and identifying key challenges.
- Really thought provoking and will inform practice.
The CCQI Self-Assessment Strategy
- Big conversation captured on a simple form.
Transformational Lesson Observation
- An awakening: what I’ve been doing wrong and what I need to do better.
Supercharged evaluation skills
- A lightbulb!
- Excellent and inspiring.
- Carpet metaphor – I got to the other side!
- Much better understanding of differentiation and stretch and challenge.
- A rainbow.
- Really engaged in the session. This really illustrated for me the students’ experience.
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