Northern Regional College (Northern Ireland)

HoT Learning

  • I would like to say how stimulating, informative and inspiring your CPD sessions were. You have even got an old cynic enthused.
  • Wow. Lots of food for thought.
  • Realised that the same lesson plan won’t suit all learners.
  • Refreshing – a reminder of what learning is all about.
  • It definitely has helped me to look at my lesson planning in a new light.
  • Reach for the stars.
  • A masterclass.
  • Tony is an excellent role model who obviously practises what he preaches.
  • An eye opener.
  • A light being turned on.
  • Champagne bottle.
  • Very stimulating and constructive – enlightening.
  • Aladdin’s cave full of gold.
  • Aspirational.

HoT2 – Techniques for engaging learners

  • Finally feel like spring time is here – budding with enthusiasm for my teaching.
  • It refreshed my desire to teach.
  • Think and grow rich.
  • Excited about ideas.
  • Like a rocket.
  • Like a visit to the Tate Modern – lots to inspire me, motivate me and set me thinking new ideas.
  • My eyes have been opened to view a lesson from the learners’ perspective.
  • Being reborn after 25 years teaching.

“Yes, were all individuals” Bryan, 1979

  • Rub out some of my thoughts on differentiation and rewrite.
  • Mind-opening enlightening.
  • A blossoming rose.
  • Excellent delivery. Thoroughly engaged in session.
  • Challenging.

Transformational Lesson Observation

  • I felt like a rocket launching into space.
  • I was feeling tired this semester and now I’m energised.
  • If I had not attended this session I would probably have used a tick list system.
  • It has changed my view of how observation should be carried out.
  • Our observation ethos needs to be reformed.
  • A great session that challenges traditional ideas of lesson observation.
  • I never analysed impact before.
  • Unmissable.
  • I was aware how the bar was raised for me today and how the rubric challenged my classroom performance.

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