Bolton College

by Tony Davis · September 5th, 2016 · · Comments are off for this post

21st Century Pedagogy

• Had the rug pulled out from underneath established things I’d been taught. The point about inspiring curiosity and not capping expectations has really stuck.
• [What might you change?] Everything! From my planning to my scheme of work.
• I now know how to review my learning outcomes to engage my learners more.
• I will be able to support other teachers better in creating learning objectives while developing the skill myself in my own pedagogy. This has been an excellent session.
• Fantastic, thank you!!!
• Inspirational, to be creative and try to focus on learners feeling different.
• Rethinking teaching strategies with reference to independence and high aspirations.
• Curiosity! Make the lesson/students curious. Allow learners to have a go first and develop/demonstrate their understanding.
• Build and fuel the learner’s car in first weeks, then it will drive itself J.
• Will remember to always focus on getting the learners’ attitude right… if possible.
• Very well organised, well planned and informative session.
• Enlightening.
• Fantastic. Left me evaluating myself!
• Inspiring and informative session, thank you.
• Very inspiring session. Learnt a lot and look forward to applying the ideas.  Loved it and would have listened to more.
• It has made me think a little differently and given me some excellent ideas – I’m curious!
• Great teaching delivery. Passionate about the topic of the session. Inspiring.
• I will change the way I write learning outcomes.
• [I now have a] Different mindset.

Learning Issues and Solutions Database (The RED LISD)

• Enlightened.
• Able, aspirational, motivated, like being a new tutor again with a desire to problem solve.
• A ray of sunlight peaking out of a cloud on a cold day.
• Inspirational, thought-provoking.
• Excited about possibilities, feel so many barriers before we can be outstanding though.
• It was a river of knowledge, allowing my brain to flow with new ideas.
• I was treated as a grown up, collaborative discussions, voice listened to.
• Gyre-widening (see W. B. Yeats: The Second Coming).
• It is fit for purpose, simple and efficient.
• I love it. I would love to see it as an approach for OTLAs.
• Easy to read, useful and will try in lessons.
  I like how it is structured and gives the teacher a step-by-step support.
• Set-up really well. Easily accessible and easy to navigate.
• It is quite clear and easy to follow. It supports you and takes you on a journey through the thinking and development process. The case studies were useful and the more the resource is populated with other cases the more useful it will become. Sharing is so important and especially between departments.
• I like the colour coded headings and the clear structure, easy to follow and definitions helped me to decide what the actual problem/issue was. It helped to reflect on what my contribution to the issue might be but in a no blame way. Therefore easier to admit and discuss.
• Clear, demanding a next step/decision/narrowing/focussing.
• I think that the format of each section is clear and follows a process that allows you to think through the issue you have selected, and what could be the cause of the issue before exploring the strategies.
• It encourages sharing of best practice within the organisation and both offers support to those with issues as well as offering praise and reward for those who are best serving their learners.
• Great, lets us problem solve without being told one method and gives us the confidence to say that it can be solved.
• Wonderful, collaborative and informed by practice.
• To have the lessons seen and heard without prejudice is really refreshing. I have already included many ideas, from Tony feedback and his blogs and lesson.
• It is good to look at learning issues in this way, methodically…seeing the problem and the reasons behind it helps to find a solution.
• I like it and would use it. I like the links that take you through to further information.
• Felt a little upset by the barriers that I found myself coming up against that I can usually mentally overcome in the moment/when filling out a form because of the demand of professionalism it suggested.
• I like that the approach is a collaborative one, using real examples from across the college. I hope that it will inspire the college to further embrace cross departmental working to share ideas and strategies for learning. This will motivate staff to try new ideas, and be more comfortable with colleagues in their classroom without the fear of failure. I also like that it will be a working document for staff to add to so it can evolve.
• My learning outcomes will never look the same again. I’ll be tapping into those attitudinal changes.
• I think it has been extremely useful and has made a big difference to people’s attitudes. I have noticed that when Tony said he could solve how to make learners never be late again in submitting work to a deadline, many staff had a negative attitude and were quite defensive. This makes me see how the tutors need to be open minded as I know that’s how they want the learners to be. “Crossing the carpet”. Thank you for your lovely compliments of my session.
• I love this approach. It’s teacher supportive and friendly.
• Thank you very much for the session 🙂
• Some really useful ideas. This got me thinking that there might be solutions. The college needs to be supportive in their implementation. At the moment it feels like we are being swamped with admin tasks and teaching and learning is taking second place.

The Art of Using Target Setting

• It was like finding a beautifully grained piece of timber.
• I will need to look more into splitting things up and thinking more from the learners point of view.

The Quality Standard

• Awakening.
• A breath of fresh air.
• An open book with a new story. I’m on page one.
• A waterfall.
• I am excited to feed this back to my team. Truly an enriching experience.
• Let’s focus on difference, not stuff!
• Intrigued, included, energised.
• Something new. A chance to the put the OTLA processes back in the hands of teachers.
• Focusing all of the time on impact and strategy. It’s really made me think again about how I share messages with staff and how to adapt to always focus on impact.
• Being completely aspirational – very inspirational.
• How can we eliminate the noise and create impact. What are the key topics within TLA that actually matter.
• A more positive way of thinking about development. Joy in the fact that it is about the learners’ journey and not about tick boxes.
• Move away from STUFF and move to Difference.
• Excellently facilitated. Thank you. Tony has a real skill in delivery and creating environments for collaboration.
• A completely inspirational session, I will be 100% going away and thinking further on my and my teams practice.
• I’m excited to see the final product and how this will look.
• Great session, very motivational.

The Evaluative Conversation – Transformational Lesson Observation

• It was informative, assuring and engaging. I enjoyed it and it made me feel good about my choice of being a teacher.
• I believe that this system will encourage tutors to be more creative in their sessions and take more risks!
• It’s ok (good) to take risks! If something goes wrong, reflect on your practice and think about how you would do things differently next time.
• Don’t be afraid to take risks! After observing a tutor, always give them the opportunity to reflect on their own practice. Do not give feedback.
• I feel inspired and felt less anxious.
• Not just reading the book, taking in the feel of the paper and the smell of the pages – Enrichment.
• Try something new. Take risks, evaluate lessons more, don’t be afraid.
• Questioning method – “I’m really curious to know what you wrote on your form?” Encourage tutor to discuss the session.
• An eye-opener. To bear in mind that feedback is not a part of the conversation.
• Excellent, informative and inspirational. Confidence with the implementation of RED.

The RED System

• Thank you, Tony! I can’t wait to implement RED
• Whirlwind!
• My inspirational juices are flowing.
• I feel more confident to organise the days and I am really looking forward to it.
• How to analyse and avoid leading questions.
• I will continue to sing RED’s praises
• Wonderful as always. Enjoying, interesting and most of all inspiring.
• I have enjoyed everything I have done. So far it’s been interesting and informative.
• Now much clearer on the system and role of CLT leader.
• Really found the mock CLT meetings useful.
• Positivity! How to structure CLT, how to effectively question without being positive or negative!
• Rollercoaster – some ups and some downs – some exciting aspects and some anxiety (which is now over!)

Tools for Online Engagement & Blended Learning

• I really enjoyed learning about some new resources, but the main thing for me was relating it to the pedagogy. It will make me think more about WHY I am using a resource and what I want my learners to get out of it, rather than simply a ‘have they remembered what they have learned?’ scenario.
• We have been provided with a wealth of resources and ‘how-to’ sheets which means I have all the support I need to be able to experiment with what I have learned.
• I aspire to be as fab a teacher as Tony – it’s not all about coming on to learn new things…it’s about watching a fab teacher in action and picking up on the way he does it in order to improve my own delivery.

Tricked out tutorials

• A road map to outstanding.
• Develop our quality standard to be outstanding in all we do.
• Consider the impact on learners, rather than what it is they’re doing.
• Enthusiastic, knowledgeable and interesting.
• I will be much more confident conducting 1:1s now!
• Great session, thanks!
• Insightful.
• Very interesting and informative session.
• It’s like making a cake – having all the correct ingredients to make the finished project.
• Made me re-examine my one-to-one review teaching.
• Thoroughly enjoyed the session.

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