Canterbury College
Assessment & the Art of Lazy Teaching
- Thank you for you excellent presentation and some excellent tools, looking forward to using Provocation, Trick Questions and Mobile [Phone Documentaries].
Data Springboard
- Highly informative.
- Really enjoyed this – very supportive and some great ideas.
- Inspiring.
- Actually useful and practical.
- Will now look at symptoms that I previously thought were issues.
- Really useful session. We need more like this.
- We need you on a retainer..!
- Excellent pace and combination of discussion and delivery.
- A very enjoyable course. Common sense and easy to navigate templates; how quality planning should be.
- Enabled identification of preventative strategies.
Equality and diversity
- You can teach an old dog new tricks
- Broke the area down effectively and made it appear much more manageable
- Good easy ways to embed E&D
- Too short, but gave an insight into this vast area
- Watching the sun rise
- I will ensure questioning in the class is addressed by all staff
- Really great info for me to take back and share with my team
- It made me evaluate what we currently do in the section. made me think about questioning
- Enlightening
- Highly recommended for wider teaching team
- Opening of the mind
- Took some of the fear away
Independent Learning
- I have had so many lights switched on!!
- A tree not just growing new leaves, but roots as well
- Lots of creative ideas and strategies – lots of inspiration!
- Really enjoyed the ‘modelling’ of strategies for independent learning to give us the experience
- Thank you for an inspirational seminar. I will try to put many of your thought-provoking ideas into my teaching practice
- Really reassuring, inspirational
- I have found myself in the zone throughout!
- An interesting, refreshing and somewhat radical insight to what could be…
- It gave me keys to engage students
- Beyond the hot edge..
- I will be exploring curiosity and making dull topics fun
- Wiki will definitely be a tool I utilise in the future
- Onwards and upwards
- Excellent ideas on how to engage and motivate learners
- A breath of fresh air in a system fogged up by bureaucracy!
- It helped me discover new and exciting ways to develop classes for students and for the teacher!
- Brilliant. Very factual and relatable to a very new teacher
- Fantastic! Invaluable for new teachers.
- Invigorating swim.
- A leap into the unknown and finding a life jacket waiting for me.
- It’s really got me thinking about how to inspire my students with practical ideas.
- A tree growing from the seeds of inspiration, learning in the wind of curiosity.
- A real cliff-hanger!
- Exceptional, unexpected, very interesting.
- Awakening. I want to discover more!
Supercharged Evaluation Skills
- Looking through the eyes of a learner.
- A gradual removal of scaffolding leading to free-flying.
- I’ll definitely break down evaluation into four categories in my marking and get learners to do this in all sessions.
- It’s clear that staff have been inspired by the ideas presented and are going to make positive changes to their practice as a result.
- It helped me to understand how I can not limit the growth and development of students. I now can provide them with tools to be excellent.
- Like a refreshing shower after a long and dusty term!
- Evaluative skills – breaking them down, using scaffolding, etc.. It was great!
Transformational Lesson Observation (observation team)
- Turning the dimmer switch up to full brightness!
- This session/day has brightened my outlook on observation.
- (From) Draconian to developmental.
- I need to focus on ensuring as many staff as possible understand the difference between impact and (teaching) strategy.
- All staff should take this training.
- Informative, motivating.
- Excellent session. I will absolutely take these ideas forward into future observations and training.
- Insightful, helpful, eye-opening.
- Inspirational!
Transformational Lesson Observation (teachers)
- An inspired session and thought provoking, which hopefully leads to change!
- Life changing.
- Lightbulb moment.
- It has turned observation on its head.
- An excellent sessions again.
- Showed me how observations should be done.
- Inspirational/experimental.
- Every member of staff, including the Principal, should attend.
- So many ideas.
- A lot of ideas I would like to include in my lessons. I will think much more about impact.
- Inspired.
- It has opened my eyes to the fact that observation could (and should) be about empowering us as teachers to managed our development in terms of continuous improvement of practice.
- Realised it (observation) was harder than it looks.
- Made me look at the impact on learning rather than at the quality of the teaching.
- Enthused and encouraged to put ‘impact on learning’ at the top of my lesson planning.
- Make it compulsory for all academic staff to attend.
- Excellent Tony – thank you. I feel uplifted and inspired.
- Learnt a lot. I have not considered how things looked from an observer’s perspective.
- As a teacher, the session has really inspired me and encouraged me to think about the impact my lessons have on students rather than feeling like I have to include particular elements to tick boxes.
Quality Standard development – phase 2 (for support staff)
- Useful but scary.
- It’s just the start.
- It was inspiring and a chance to discuss how each member of the team will have an impact on students.
- I just hope that our managers take these ideas on board and support us in trying to change processes.
- Value the process, which has a creative and tangible centre of outcomes, the impacts being to support teaching and learning.
- A walk to a cliff edge. The difficult part comes next…
- Excellent delivery. Always enjoyable training with you.
- Focussing.
- Invigorating.
- Has made me review our existing practice and consider how to improve and apply what I’ve learnt today.
- Enlightening.
- Good to have the opportunity to work as a team to review and reflect on impact on students and how our QS (quality standard) can be raised.
- I feel empowered to try and move things forward. I hope someone listens and considers our proposal. Not a waste of time! Well done.
- Frustrating, valuable.
- To swim in the sea you must first inflate your armbands.
- The first bite of a Michelin-starred meal.
We present feedback from providers to show the sort of positive impact the training may have on your own staff. However, in this instance we also feel it is important to alert you to the potential negative feedback if the session is delivered to overly large groups of non-academic support staff.
- Bored.
- Building a sandcastle when the tide is coming in.
- Could have done with fewer big words, such as taxonomy and pedagogy – shoulders went up, but otherwise enjoyable.
- Tiring!!
- Our group was too large.
- Very interesting and has inspired me, but I am cynical.
- A journey of 1000 miles starts with a single step.
- Interested, but cynical.
- Far too long. Too hot, too noisy, too many people. Wasted a lot of time not developing anything.
‘Yes, we’re all individuals’ Brian 1979
- Servant hazing at the brandy in the tantalus.
- The ideas and strategies are inspirational and useful.
- It gets darker before dawn. This session made me question.
- Good ideas for deeper development.
- Really enjoyable. Found Tony very knowledgeable with a lovely, calm way of delivering.
- Really interesting. Good communication.
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