Chesterfield College
21st Century Pedagogy
- Clouds clearing.
- Teaching an old dog new tricks!
- (I need to) devise strategies that encourage curiosity.
- Breaking through the fourth classroom wall.
- The sun coming out after a rainy day!
- (I need to) challenge myself and the learners through more considered planning.
- Switched on a light bulb.
- Leading a horse to water and convincing it it’s thirsty.
- Sponge.
- Stimulating.
- This has helped to clearly define how to set out aims and outcomes.
- I’ve peeped out of the box, but fear that I may be told to get back in it.
- Best handout on outcomes I have had for many years.
- The comment about the teacher taking control of the mouse really helped me to reflect on how much control I am taking away from their independent learning.
- If we don’t challenge ourselves as teachers, we will not change!
- Rediscovering spontaneity in teaching.
- Stop the carpet burns by dragging them (learners) through, and show them the wheels to get there on their own.
- Really enjoyed this session and already thinking of way to be more creative myself.
- Made me curious and kept me intrigued.
- I was that Meerkat.
Assessment and the Art of Lazy Teaching
- As if by magic, the shop keeper appears.
- Make the world of learning real. Fill creative assessment through the sessions and SoL.
- Various shades of ideas and new strategies. Food for thought!
- Really enjoyed the session and would like access to the assessment cards.
- Mind blowing. Gets creative juices flowing.
- I will get a desired learning outcome from the learner as well as the tutor.
- I will observe classroom lessons with Sharon so I can learn strategies from the classroom team.
- Eye opening amount of strategies that can be used through teaching.
- Loads of different ways of using assessment in my workshop session or theory lessons. Thank you for all the information. A lot taken on board that will be implemented.
- Seeing the wood through the trees.
- Revisit how we gauge success in short lesson visits, we should look at impact from intent to completion. I thought this session was great. It would be nice to revisit after we have put it into practice.
- This will focus my mind on formative assessment strategies, or ‘Informative strategies’. A reminder of that importance to check learning and progress.
- So many ideas, something for everything. A fun and well-planned approach. Quite refreshing.
- My brain being turned inside out. Give more independence/ownership back to the learner.
- The session was like a learning tree branching out for more understanding of teaching. It helped me reflect on different assessment types and how to approach them.
- Thank you for the session. It was informative and engaging.
- The application of new ideas and approaches to planning and delivering ideas.
- The session was interesting and informative, it was a great ways to change thinking and approach to lesson planning to try and make assessment the focus.
- Open as a door to new ideas. I will use more teaching assessment techniques in lesson and I have learnt different techniques relevant to subject.
- I have learnt a lot today and got a link between theory and practice. Thank you, Tony.
- Inspiring. Given me a lot of ideas for how to approach assessment – still studying PGCE and find this session useful to add a new perspective.
- Really enjoyed this! Opened my mind to a variety of ways assessment can be used to inform lessons rather than an afterthought!
- Opened mind to new ideas and methods. Use as many of the strategies as possible when relevant.
Well-spent morning of learning. - It has helped me to widen my knowledge of different assessment methods so I can make future lessons more engaging.
- I can see clearly now the brain fog has gone.
- It helped me to recognise that whilst I use formative assessment methods, I could use them more frequently and in different creative ways.
- Excellent! Lovely demeanour and informative/creative.
- There are ways to engage students in a fun, creative manor. Strategies that can be implemented to many subjects.
- Lots of great ideas to make lessons more fulfilling for my learners, so they get more out of them and I’m passing the onus on to them, rather than doing everything myself.
- Tony Davis was a very good presenter. He is very enthusiastic and clear in his explanations. The resources, visual presentations, questioning and activities were very engaging and got us all talking. The pace of the sessions was very good and we got through a lot of content while also having a practice with the resources. I will be using questioning during my demonstrations to ask ‘What would need to be done next?’ rather than simply showing the students what to do next.
- Enjoyable and informative. Training that I can actually use.
- The fifty shades of assessment overview, love the simple structure with so many ideas to spark our imagination.
- Brilliant session, well planned and interactive.
- Useable assessment strategies that I can find quickly and link directly to the learning outcomes.
- That was an extremely useful session, probably the best bit of CPD I’ve ever done. I will certainly be making use of the resources in the months (and perhaps years!) to come. Thanks very much!
Independent Learning
- A journey into the light.
Inspiring Induction Practices
- An inspirational session this morning! Thank you. I took my induction idea to the JOYFE ideas room tonight and explored it further with a group from around the country! Watch this space?♂we are collaborating across colleges?
- Like sailing out across the ocean.
- Really liked the online accessibility and thought it was the correct amount of time.
- Will be disseminating this Friday – the team who attended were really buzzing… fingers crossed.
- Great ideas and lovely way of presenting information.
- Great session and love the video.
Learning motivation: designing unmissable experiences
- This session lit up a corner of a dark room that I have just entered – and will get brighter the more I learn, teach and adapt these techniques.
- Absolutely – especially in regards to my department. Hearing new ideas, techniques and understanding and implementing approaches to learning with unmotivated/disengaged students and activities.
- Brilliant delivery and very engaging. Appreciate the lesson and enlightening.
Perfecting Progress Reviews
- Pleasantly tired from all the ideas and enthusiastic about the future!!
- Look at building a quality standard to support the impact we want to see.
- Ensure that staff ensure that learners take ownership of their review.
- Music to the soul.
- Let the learner do all of the talking! (Well, most)
- Blue sky.
- Use of curious questions to draw out learner with no agenda.
- Loved the use of the video for this session.
- Help staff develop ‘language’ of mastering curious questions…
- Lovely session, thank you.
- Rainbow.
- Not to rely on the quality checks. Enjoyed the session – thank you ?
- Crossing a river.
Perfecting Self-Assessment Writing
- A journey of 100 miles starts with a single step.
- YES!!!! Look at the ‘however’. Use the red, purple and blue strategy to help me write better judgement statements.
- Tony was engaging, positive and gave some really great advice.
The Art of Using Target Setting
- Bacteria to amoeba to fish to lizard to dinosaur to bird.
- A pre-lit firework – having the ingredients to improve development of knowledge before ‘firing off’.
- Very interested in the Emotional Learning Journey, evaluative vocabulary; will definitely look at/think about this more.
- Loved it thank you ? You really challenge my thinking.
- Green buds on a tree.
- Focus on the individual and the support they need.
- Use an about face. How could PBP allow learners to ‘own’ their learning and create curiosity.
- An awakening and realisation.
- Focus on progression/aspirations.
- Budding flower.
- Look at the writing in colour, gives me an idea on how this can be implemented to give feedback to students.
- Great session. Just need time to implement.
- Rollercoaster ?
- Empowering/using the project management tool, using the ‘colour’ code method. Enjoyed the session!
- Give learners (and staff) more control.
- Speak to the students to discuss what they want to achieve. Much appreciated, thanks.
The RED System
- A roadmap to success.
- Storms are created as a natural part of life and a natural part of every ecosystem.
- Loved it – perhaps challenge perception of what managers do!
- Icing on the cake!!
- Loved it thank you 🙂
- The myth of Sisyphus, but with a different ending (He gets it over the hill).
- It can be factored into our current system and COPs.
- Like climbing a ladder to reach the stars!
- Really liked the way in which each phase is structured, in particular 6, 7 and 8.
- Really enjoyed it, thank you.
- The future is bright and ever changing.
- Evaluation and continuous improvement.
- I found today’s session very inspiring and I feel RED will re-energise our college.
Transformational Lesson Observation
- I am keen to use this for my newly formed post-16 QA, but also embed it where possible in pre-16.
- Fascinating.
- Outstanding! Inspirational.
- Full change college system – must move forward.
- Focus on the impact in a positive manner.
- Breath of fresh air.
- Realigned my passion for improving TL&A.
- Use the question: ‘Tell me about the impact on learning’.
- Exciting. Extremely helpful. Motivated, empowered.
- A definite light-bulb moment!
- I now fully understand that I have to concentrate and evidence the impact (on learning) and the distance travelled.
- I was expecting the usual observation training, so was very pleasantly surprised 🙂
- The left-hand/right-hand system (for writing lesson-reflection notes) was great.
- Engaging, exhausting, passionate delivery. Thank you.
- Planting a seed and watching it grow.
- I/we need to implement this into our strategy.
- Really like the new approach the college is adopting. Inspiring.
- It has challenged my understanding.
- A very different approach to the observation process.
Transformational Lesson Observation – follow-on training
- Great session that challenged, informed and highlighted ways to develop our coaching and mentoring strategy.
- Inspiring and challenging session that the whole college would benefit from.
- Motivational.
- I need to practise my coaching technique.. and (completing) the writing and feedback in one go!
- Good insight as I’m new to observation.
- Now aware of what is required and tips on how to manage the coaching conversation if the session doesn’t flow well.
- The session has really helped today.
- Yes. More use of coaching questions to reach the ‘tipping point’ and find the point of intrinsic motivation.
- Look for strategies to enable transfer to intrinsic control.
- Enjoyed the calm and direct approach – the correct type of tutor-led activity.
- A new skill to develop for me, but I am feeling curious and excited about the process after today.
- I clearly need to spend more time working on writing up my reports in a more timely way and to practise my evaluative conversations.
- Rollercoaster J
- Every journey starts with just one step.
- Remembering I’m not there to have all the answers, but to ask questions to get the teacher reflecting and evaluating the impact on learners.
- The importance of ensuring observe recognises own actions and self-development opportunities.
- Individuals need to be enabled to take ownership
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