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by Tony Davis · March 15th, 2021 · · Comments are off for this post

Assessment & the Art of Lazy Teaching

• It was magical! It made me think about more ways of incorporating interactive, engaging and learner-led assessments into sessions to help embed learning and assess progress of learners. Oh absolutely, yes: I will be using loads of the assessment techniques in my own teaching and have started re-writing lesson plans already. Loved every minute of it.
• A fantastic insight into all aspects of assessment at this level of teaching. A whole new perspective on assessment strategies and how to implement during teaching.
• I found the session was engaging, with good level of challenge and deeper thinking.
• Eye opening.
• Revealing.
• I would change the methods of assessment – particularly using the various assessment strategies learnt and discussed today.
• It helped me to look at assessment methods and strategies differently from a learner’s point of view.
• I now understand the various techniques of formative assessment and look to use them in my future teaching.
• Absolutely, some of the strategies I already use but as a stand alone, I will definitely be combining them for a greater impact in future lessons.
• Zoom is always difficult but I thought Tony did a fantastic job organising the break out rooms, allowing us to integrate with other members of the group.
• The building of a dual staircase within a house (how assessment can fulfil learning and teaching and is not just a part in the TLA cycle).
• A new idea is the spark that lights an eternal flame.
• It helped massively! I will include a wider variety of assessment into my lesson plans.
• Fantastic session as always from Tony, Highly informative and very useful in my teaching journey.

Initial Assessment & Differentiation Controversy

• Learning is a roller coaster.
• Energised and thoughtful.
• It was like a first step over the bridge to progress.
• The key takeaway was how important initial learner assessments are and the idea that we should consider how students feel during the process.
• Teachers are the sculpters of young minds!
• Support [scaffolding] is successful if it can be taken away.
• Success is a blossoming tree and what I gained from today will help me with my delivery in the future. My takeaways from today were flipped/pre-learning for contextualisation to meet the needs of all learners.
• Learning is a marathon. I have accrued a better understanding of removing barriers and the merits of support and scaffolding. I particularly liked the strategy of periodically removing the scaffolding to test for autonomy and independence, thereby proving learners distance travelled.
• Thought provoking. An improved understanding of pedagogy.
• A greater knowledge of how to support learners.
• It was an enjoyable experience which flipped some of the understanding and assumptions that I had as a tutor in general.
• It was like looking at the same artwork from a different part of the room.
• Looking at removing barriers and scaffolding, looking at assessments in a different manner.
• Planning of differentiation using the results of a through initial assessment process.
• Ensuring the information and results of IA are shared with all tutors/coaches etc and not just those responsible for core aim qualifications.

Learning Outcomes for Independent Learning

• The session was excellent, Tony is very knowledgeable and really made us think about improving our use of technology and planning for teaching sessions further.
• Powerful.
• I got more from this session than expected, Expert learning traits activity awoke my mind so will do this with students.
• A fantastic path winding through all aspects of learning outcomes, including many creative ways to provoke and demand best practice within myself.
• The world is your oyster. e.g. be creative and diverse with your LO’s. Including attitudinal changes within them.
• It was a familiar train journey in a different season.
• I have been out of teacher training for 5 years and this has definitely opened my eyes to become better at learning outcomes and my lessons will 100% be helped from this.
• It helped to improve my application around the topic, and I will look to add more clarity and direction to my learning outcomes.
• Most definitely, I shall never use ‘understand’ again in lesson planning!
• It made me realise that often I am creating learning objectives that are best for me interns of producing the evidence I need for assessment or making it easier for me to show progress rather than what it is actually creating for the learner in terms of their knowledge, enjoyment or attitude.
• It has made me rethink how to measure learning outcomes and how you can ensure student engagement and understanding.
• It helped me understand what an LO’s should look like, what should be included and how to construct them.
• Will be looking to implement more of the ‘verbs’ into my learning outcomes.
• I really enjoyed the attitudinal learning outcomes section and will consider this when writing future learning outcomes. As a psychology man I am interested in cognition and the progression that is more difficult to see and measure. The use of technology was good throughout and variety of methods and resources used ensured we were kept on our toes as learners.
• I am looking forward to further training.
• Facilitator was very knowledgeable, great resources shared.
• I really enjoyed the session. I thought the activities were great and thought the timing of the training was right.
• The Brain, Body, Attitude/Traits I found resonated strongly and I am going to be more creative about how to include the body element in my practice and even from a personal perspective I know that activities that immerse me are the most valuable and remembered..
• I really liked the ideological discussion about how we ‘teach’ under current policy and how we need to re-frame this to create a whole learner with multiple skills and ability to apply, adapt and grow both now and in the future as things change.
• Learning is like making new friends.

Learning Theorists and the Emotional Learning Journey

• Rewarding.
• Brilliant insight into a variety of learning theories and the emotional learning journey. Always incredibly informative.
• I felt the session helped me to link learning theories to outcomes for learners with the categories used.
• Yes absolutely! I will now put more emphasis on the learners emotional states when lesson planning.
• Today’s session was like going on an expedition, there are lots of things to do but I feel like today’s session will help us as a team to take the bull by the horns and revamp our delivery styles.
• My boat is well and truly rocked.
• Thanks again Tony, you really are inspirational.
• I was already very familiar with learning theories but I think today’s session helped me look at our curriculum models with a fresh pair of eyes and consider how we can make these connection with these with our learners.
• The exercises in the breakouts were really helpful to understand different learning theories and how they could be applied in practice. I am planning to use learning strategies 25, 27 and 34 in my future design and delivery.
• I found all information beneficial with me being new to teaching.
• As I am new to teaching I found something I can build on to be the best I can be ?
• Today’s session has helped me to embed emotional learning into my planning and delivery.
• I am going to make more use of connectivism methods to see if it helps me to save time.
• Thankyou Tony for giving me this experience.

Perfecting Progress Reviews

• Really beneficial session, I am new to the education world so it was really useful.
• Readying revolutionary, rigorous, robust reviews are recommended and a revelation.
• Change my approach to progress meetings.
• Provided me with a clear focus on how to enhance our current review process focussing on the impact on the individual.
• Create action plans and identify barriers that a learner has or could stop someone from learning.
• Really great session, engaging really enjoyed the observation section this gave me a chance to practice my listening skills.
• Thanks Tony for another enjoyable and worthwhile session.

Perfecting Self-Assessment Writing

• Like a breath of fresh air!
• Tony provided clear guidance and pushed the limits of understanding too. The session really made me think differently! I’ve been thinking about masking since the session and including the “however” where something is not quite outstanding and how we can use both these methods better.

The Art of Using Target Setting

• Learning is like building a house (one step at a time when setting targets).
• Excellent session and very comfortable environment set by Tony.
• More emphasis on learners setting targets.
• Supporting students to discuss, define and formulate their own targets (mini project managers). Direct and meaningful involvement should lead to greater ownership and hopefully progress.
• Reinforcing the importance of motivating students and giving them realistic steps to achieve their goals.

Tools for Online Engagement & Blended Learning

• Very engaging session with lots of resources/information and valuable IAG provided by Tony regarding tools for online engagement. Definitely will make me reflect and review this going forward.
• Fountain of knowledge and new information. Looking forward to trying Prezi video on zoom.

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