Assessment and the Art of Lazy Teaching
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Abingdon & Witney College
- Two key points: ‘Preventable contact’ and ‘INformative assessment’
Adult Education Wolverhampton
- A brain reset.
Antrec Limited
- I have long been a believer in ‘letting students do the work’. This has given me more scope and belief to be able to develop the learner ability to think and learn independently.
Aspire Education Academy
- This was really engaging and provided lots of thought-provoking ideas. It highlighted how I am able to take different assessment methods and create a lesson plan with such ease when you have been given the resources and tools to succeed.
Barnet and Southgate College
- Felt I was opening up a new box of chocolates and discovering new ‘flavours’ of assessment techniques and teaching strategies.
Bath College
- It was like entering an art gallery and finding yourself staring at 50 masterpieces, each worth the time to study it.
Belfast Metropolitan College
- My cataracts have been cleared. Meaning: Before the session I knew that my learners needed to be more independent and there should be less of me marking piles of work, but I had only a very foggy awareness of how to change that. Now my awareness is clearer.
Blackburne House
- Start at the door – walk the carpet – come out a different person.
B-Skill Limited
- This is the first training session in a very long time that I have come away feeling excited and motivated. It has reminded me why I do this job and given me the inspiration to make a real difference within the classroom. Thank you.
Bristol City Council Community Learning
- I’m so excited to start the new academic year and use some of the ideas from today. It will have a big impact on my teaching. My shoes were dancing without me.
Bury College
- This has been one of the best CPD sessions we have has in the 6 years I have been here. I feel all staff members should experience this session. Engaging, encouraging and effective.
Canterbury College
- Thank you for you excellent presentation and some excellent tools, looking forward to using Provocation, Trick Questions and Mobile [Phone Documentaries].
Central Bedfordshire College
- I’m itching to implement as many as possible next academic year. Keep up the good work. You had us engaged from beginning to the end. Popping candy for the brain.
Chesterfield College
- As if by magic, the shop keeper appears. 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!
Code Institute
- My learning journey was akin to navigating a winding river. The training provided a steady current of information, guiding me through new concepts and perspectives. Each bend in the river brought forth thought-provoking insights, and the landscape of knowledge unfolded before me, revealing interesting vistas of understanding.
- It was a change of paradigm, I view the whole process with different eyes now.
Coleg Cambria
- A whirlwind of excitement of new ideas. Another inspirational session with lots of ideas to develop my formative assessment.
Complete Skills Solutions
- 50 shades of assessment will give me a new approach in quality to support learners gain the best experience we can give them – and make a difference. Thanks for the re-awakening!
Craven College
- Out of this world! Galactic.
Crosby Training
- Fabulous session.
East Coast College
- It is like taking a lift to better practice. I will incorporate one of the strategies into my teaching each week.
East Kent College
- A breath of fresh air. Mind blowing.
Fashion Enter
- I was a blank canvas and the enthusiasm shown by the facilitator shone through. I will share with colleagues and think of how we could improve lesson planning and rewording criteria.
Greater Brighton Metropolitan College
- Road to improvement. This session was brilliant! [I need to] Read the 50 ‘tips’ and try some per week (2-3) and reflect on what works and for what groups.
Greenbank College
- The resources used are useful to me. The lesson about chemical bonding gave me an idea for a logic lesson.
Grimsby Institute
- This is a whole new world of assessment, shinning, shimmering, splendid – a dazzling place I never knew. This course made me feel like I had been dragged out of the quicksand and placed into a lovely bath of assessment infused bubbles!
Groundwork
- T’was brilliant. Thanks for exercising my brain!
Hereford College of Arts
- I feel like I started on a camel and left on a fully functional cruise ship.
Hull College
- A great session – kept me gripped throughout.
Inspire College
- I get it – Bloody brilliant conclusion. It’s an ‘all you can eat’ buffet of assessment ideas.
JTL Training
- Really good presentation, delivered within context, in a language that was non-academic so as to communicate with differing types of teachers from different backgrounds. Honest, clear and to the point. Any personal opinions were backed up with clear reasoning. A cauldron of ideas.
Kendal College
- Opening a door in my mind to release new ideas. Assessment can be quick and simple – ultimately it makes lessons more engaging.
Leicester College
- Forget ‘food for thought’ – this was a banquet! Learning is like cracking a code – today you have given us the code to 47 effective assessment tools.
Lincoln College International
- Plenty to think about, as a manager never mind a teacher. What have we as observers been doing all these years???? How many of us have T, L and A strategies? Terminal – dead… We need to be alive and kicking!!
Liverpool Adult Learning Service
- Great! The information on outcomes & assessment. The whole session was excellent. Loved opportunity to practise and lots of useful information.
Mid Kent College
- Wide saucer eyes of enlightenment. Thank you for given me a new lens to look at my teaching through.
MK College
- I think the afternoon was very comprehensive and having the PDF to take away will enable me to continue to develop my assessment. Thank you so much, it was great to see this in action and I am looking forward to trying out the assessments in my session on Thursday this week!
Mode Training
- I have another quiver to my bow.
MTC Training
- It was a melting pot of fantastic ideas.
Myerscough College
- Candy floss! I was just a stick – got whirled around the sugar a number of times during different activities & came out a candy floss – sticky learning.
North Kent College
- It’s like putting on a pair of magic spectacles; the overlap between teaching, assessment and learning is brought into sharp focus in this session.
North West Community Services
- A really engaging course and Tony was extremely knowledgeable and encouraging throughout. I have recommended this course to a colleague who I know would hugely benefit. Really enjoyed the breakout rooms (although I didn’t think I would!)
North West Education & Training
- The world is your oyster.
North West Training Council
- An assault-course/rollercoaster. It is the difference that is important not the stuff.
Quest Training
- Thank you so much for your great resources, think you should sell your cards.
Sefton Community Learning Service
- Excellent session. It exceeded my expectations. Fantastic collaborative activities, very well presented and managed, inspiring. It was so engaging that time flew by and I have learnt so much in one training session, I can now cascade to colleagues.
South Eastern Regional College (Northern Ireland)
- I learned a lot from the session yesterday. I will definitely explore some of the assessment strategies that I can utilise with my group. It was good to learn from other participants too.
Southport College
- The best inset event we have had for years. Stimulating and full of good ideas, like a burst of cerebral sparks. Loved the game approach to the session: application of what is promoted, which does not always happen. It was original and stimulating.
Sparsholt College
- They (The Fifty Shade of Assessment) can be integrated into lessons more easily and are less time consuming than I thought. I will try and see them as teaching rather than just assessing.
St Helens Adult & Community Learning
- Helped to free the mind!
St Helens College
- High performance fuel for the brain! Blew my mind! Totally different perspective on LO.
Stoke College
- My brain feels soaked in knowledge. Meerkat teaching – I want all my lessons to be Meerkat! I will endeavour to use 5 new assessment techniques in lessons by half term. I will try them and reflect on how they can be improved for my learners and my subject to build excellent learning skills.
Sysco
- 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.
The Learning Foundry
- I will be concentrating on learners enjoying the journey rather than just completing the journey (end results). I did not know there were 50 assessment strategies – I now have a lot more to think about! Very interactive.
The Oxford Partnership (Saudi Arabia)
- Formative assessment can really become part of the lesson and blur the line of lesson and assessment. Tony has put into words what I strongly believe, students can develop if they know how to analyse themselves, and he has given me 47 strategies to work with, Thank-you.
TPM
- Absolutely illuminating. Just a complete pleasurable experience. All 4 sessions – what L&S sector should be about.
TTE Training
- Giving the learner responsibility to evaluate their own performance.
Vocational Solutions
- Invigorating. Some new assessment strategies and ways to get my tutors to work together to develop curriculum.
West Lancashire College
- Change is in the air! I am definitely going to implement some of the strategies learnt in this session. Really enjoyed the Community Challenge game and the chance to apply the strategies to given scenarios and discuss differing perspectives.
Weymouth College
- This was absolutely inspiring – by far the best, if not the only staff development session – Ever. Bird in a cage, door opened…
Wirral Council Lifelong Learning Service
- My lesson plans are dinosaurs. Amazing and eye opening. I loved the session. It has made me think more about the learners.
Wirral Metropolitan College
- This was super engaging and it felt emotional to have someone stand up and truly understand. Thank you.
York College
- I feel like I have climbed a hill – but instead of pulling the students up behind me – they are along side me, if not in front of me on this journey and, by the way, at the top of this hill is the best and most beautiful landscape – that is where the students are heading whilst I sit at the top of the hill for a little rest.
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