Grimsby Institute
Assessment & the Art of Lazy Teaching
- This course made me feel like I had been dragged out of the quicksand and placed into a lovely bath of assessment infused bubbles!
- This session brought to the fore how the term assessment is not sufficiently linked to formative and ongoing, but rather the end!
- It will influence the way teachers see assessment through the development of new resources and training.
- This course was refreshingly informative, engaging and extremely useful for myself and my colleagues once cascaded.
- This is a whole new world of assessment, shinning, shimmering, splendid – a dazzling place I never knew.
- The difference between summative that I thought was formative in the classroom. I have a whole range of assessment methods to call upon and develop for delivery.
Learning Motivation
- Riding the waves on a sea of great ideas.
- I’m taking away the thin scheme of work and mapping unmissable events and motivation low points to inform planning.
Learning Outcomes for Independent Learning
- I will start with discussion with colleagues around how we encourage the teaching staff to use learning outcomes as a whole session approach and refrain from using lots of unnecessary aims and objectives. There is a place for these but..
- The toolkit is less jumbled and much more organised. Loved the activities.
- A great session that will help me support colleagues and develop their understanding of writing LO’s with a focus upon the skill aspect of their delivery.
- The journey across the carpet and other metaphors were very helpful and will support the illustration of what I am trying to achieve in coaching others.
- Thought everything went really well, the great modelling of tech which I loved and will also utilise.
- Very enjoyable – enjoyed the passion, the tools and the concepts.
Learning Theorists and the Emotional Learning Journey
- Lots of simple strategies which are easy to implement – excellent.
- It was really refreshing that a topic such as learning theorists was delivered in such a way as to make it practicable. It should be a ‘dry’ session – it wasn’t! Really enjoyed it.
- Opening the toolbox of my mind.
- Team meetings will be reinvented.
- Deeper exploration of how to design learning experiences.
- This should be a national programme.
- Opening the curtains and seeing the light.
- Another great learning experience. Thanks.
- A window has opened for me.
- Lots of useful and informative ideas I could bring to the classroom.
- All round excellent training with lots to take away.
- Brilliant solutions/strategies – excellent.
- Excellent delivery/training.
- Definitely going to use the online resources.
- Great morning, better than expected – thank you!!!
- Many new teaching and learning strategies gained – very useful.
- New innovative learning styles. Thank you.
- I’ve walked the carpet.
- Well done, the pitch was at the right level, you did engage with the audience well.
- Refreshing.
- Awareness of how various learning theorists can be embedded into a planned session using varying teaching methods – this will address emotional learning states.
- Addressing emotional learning states and linking to various strategies that can aid learning.
- Clear reminder that the learner’s emotional needs/states impact greatly on their ability to learn – sometimes in our pressure to get through the curriculum we can forget this!
- The strategies are very valuable. Loved looking at the categories as “experienced” rather than “able”.
- Fantastic, great tool.
Perfecting Self-Assessment Writing
- I felt like a child who did not want to go back to school today, but was glad when I got there!
- I have been involved in self-assessment activities for about 20 years, but recently left the FE sector only to return so it was a real good refresher.
- I really enjoyed this session and it has helped me to focus on the SAR that I am starting to write. Thank you
Perfecting Development-Plan Writing
- Chomping at the bit to discuss changes.
- How a QIP doc can be used more effectively without unnecessary additional work #keepitsimple. I really liked the concept of a celebration box and will be championing this asap. It was the usual interesting and engaging session I have come to expect from Tony.
Preparing for Live Self Assessment
- It was the opening first ascent on a rollercoaster leading to that tipping point when you shout ‘Wahey!’ and just ‘get it’ as you go over the top!
- Enlightened. Feel more able and confident to accurately produce an SAR which is fit for purpose.
- It was a journey of eyes being opened – to see how far we could move from good to outstanding.
- Encouraging honest evaluation and meaningful development planning.
- Thoroughly enjoyable session.
- We must use self assessment in the ‘live’ context and not retrospectively.
- It made me more aware that I have tended to focus on 3rd party audiences, rather than the key issues that needed to be reviewed.
- Inspiring.
Service area self assessment
- Buckets full of ideas.
- Better understanding of the cogs in the wheel of self assessment.
- Gave me a lot to think about, but very helpful.
- Made me realise that there are many more things to consider.
- Don’t write (about) symptoms – write issues!
- I haven’t looked at self assessment in this format before. It helps me think and conclude differently.
- Bit like an iceberg. Have realised SARs are just the bit we see on top and there is a lot to go on below the water level.
- This was a great way of ‘building’ quality standards.
- I will be more involved in self assessment in future.
- Much better understanding of what is required now.
The CCQI Self-Assessment Strategy
- Valuable
- The session presented a range of considerations and processes to consider in relation to re-developing our self-assessment procedure, particularly around working with staff to get to the root cause of issues.
- The use of Prezi video overlaid on the presenter screen made the sections of tutor delivery far more visually engaging over the standard screen share with a slide show.
Transformational lesson observation
- Unmissable!
- Was hugely developmental to review OTL as a transformative rather than didactic/systems-based process.
- A great session – thought provoking and allowing for the college to look differently at OTL.
- Eye-opening
- Change my focus onto the impact on the learner and bring more ownership to the reflection of the observed rather than feedback from the observer.
- Face the learners (when observing) not the tutor and watch for signs of learning in its many forms.
- The system needs to be re-energised to provide support for staff and to empower them to request observations.
- (We need a) cultural shift to support move to outstanding.
- ‘Intellectual temptation!’
- Observations should be a learning experience like you want to see in a classroom.
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