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The RED System

by Tony Davis · April 30th, 2015 · · Comments are off for this post

Click here for an overview of the training.
Click each provider’s name to see a detailed list of impact on staff.

Abingdon & Witney College

  • A bit of a rollercoaster. Change to a more empowering model that trusts teachers.

Birmingham Metropolitan College

  • You can teach an old dog new tricks.
  • It was hard and tiring, but definitely worth it.
  • Resetting the sails on a ship to chart new or forgotten waters, discovery or rediscovery.
  • Climbing out from under the microscope and looking down the lens yourself.

Bolton College

  • 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.
  • Wonderful as always. Enjoying, interesting and most of all inspiring.
  • Really found the mock CLT meetings useful.

City College Coventry

  • Rude awakening!
  • Questioning. [I need to] Get my team to identify their areas for development.
  • Empower the teachers to measure impact.
  • It gives me a better way of undertaking observations, I am new to the manager’s role, so is useful.
  • Insightful and inspirational. Started to understand the need to flip accountability to supportive process.

Chesterfield College

  • 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.

East Coast College

  • An inspiring journey. This session reinforced my own views on how observation should be a developmental process and I feel it really helped staff to see the opportunity provided by the RED System.
  • Gives a much clearer indication of how the concept works in practice. Informative, lot of creative thinking. Good delivery and explanation.
  • Change my use of language when reflecting on the session with the tutor. Use the Learning Momentum curve.
  • Change in attitude, sell the idea to others – might have to be gradual.
  • Overflowing cup.
  • In particular it was really good to go over the opening questions for the ‘transition point’ during the discussion with teacher. Really good reminder on ‘open’ questioning, devising a bank of open questions to start and the use of ‘funneling’ to encourage ownership by the teacher of the positives, negatives, missing and unintended impacts. This has helped to hone my skills a bit more and made me realise that I need a bit more prep on the questions beforehand to avoid ‘leading’.

Halton Borough Council

  • Changed the direction of my thinking in terms of observation and impact on learning.
  • Holding a mirror up to habits I didn’t fully recognise I had developed.
  • I am now more aware of my propensity to offer advice and solutions that are not invited.
  • Having the paperwork to give a framework to any future improvements has been very helpful.

Hereford College of Arts

  • It’s like when Derren Brown hypnotised a concert pianist.
  • A signpost to Everest! We’ve got a huge climb ahead. There will be challenges along the way but we’re going in the right direction and have taken the first steps.
  • Great understanding of how observations will work.
  • Changing the terminology from learning observations/walks etc. Empowered to take control of our standards.
  • Thank you so much – great thought-provoking day. I wish all my team had been able to attend – I will definitely be sharing with them.
  • Really interesting and engaging session.
  • Walking the carpet.
  • A lot! Taking risks, how to observe effectively. The learners’ journey / the impact is most important.
  • Enjoyable workshop/session as it made me more aware of how to approach the conversation following lesson observation. Let them talk!

Lincoln College International

  • Unlocking more educational practice doors.
  • I will start looking at implementing changes to the current approach to observation processes to this impact-oriented system.
  • The session was spot on in terms of its purpose, administration, and task integration.
  • Fantastic session! Definitely looking forward to attending future sessions and growing within educational quality management.
  • Take a risk and do something new. Empowering.

Nottingham College

  • Turning the formal observation process on its head! A refreshing system that puts teachers at the heart of their CPD!
  • Teachers always feel very twitchy during the observation windows, and this model allows them to take control, which will reduce stress and anxiety!
  • This session has encouraged me to think differently about lesson obs and the impact that they have. I will definitely use different language and encourage more teacher reflection. Truly inspiring!
  • Start of a ‘new journey’ to change the culture and development of TLA at our college. I like the ‘research element’. The feedback/emphasis on the observee to undertake the detailed reflection.
  • It is completely different from our current system. This process will enable the teachers to feel more supported and to take risks with their teacher. Would need the trust of the staff to buy into the new process.

OxfordSaudia Flight Academy

  • The process is long, but it’s the right way. I LOVED the quick but effective information about transactional communication with the parent, adult and child. This will DEFINITELY help me in both my professional AND personal life.
  • Can’t wait for it to happen!
  • Takeaways in terms of the philosophy behind the RED system (such as creating and sharing collaborative tools to share insights, discussions, etc… Takeaways from the trainer qualities: being insightful, being witty, keep all engaged in different ways (verbal & non-verbal communication), etc…
  • The stars are dancing! Building trust. Culture shift. Quality. Reflection.

Quest Training

  • A wealth of meerkat moments.
  • This session has really helped me to look at how I can adapt my ideas already to change the system we have in place. Just added 100 things to my to do list as I always go away with wanting more knowledge.
  • Well done it was a fab session. I will be in touch to book in with you – Thank you for the one to one time also today.

Serco

  • Putting tutors at the heart of observations.
  • New role, and new to observations. This was a great session to support my learning and understanding.
  • The key takeaways for me are the overview and methodology of the RED system and moving more towards a model with the quality observations with our partner providers that includes evaluative feedback.

St Helens Adult & Community Learning

  • Another chance to adapt and overcome!
  • Key Questions What is our philosophy of education? Do we emphasise the efficiency of learning enough when promoting research approach?
  • Key phrase: Change one thing!
  • In every other circumstance I would choose face to face over online learning, but you have managed to translate your sessions beautifully to the online environment, which has resulted in an enriched rather than a lesser experience.
  • Always take something useful and something innovative from these sessions – an elusive blend!

The Sheffield College

  • A really challenging, inspiring & enjoyable event, which will certainly impact my own practice. I hope the college moves forward with this as a whole.
  • Enlightening.
  • Eye opening. It helped me look at my teaching in a more objective way.
  • Confidence building and motivational to embrace change.

Workforce Training (NI)

  • I really understand what it is all about – impact on learners. Did they cross the carpet?
  • Real eye-opener.
  • The coaching on how to ask a question to a teacher to try and pry out the positive/negative impact on learning…
  • A change in perception of what it is to effectively observe. Rather than my opinion or judgement, a move to open discussion on how to improve, i.e. the observation is a means to facilitate discussion.

Yew Chung Education Foundation (China)

  • The session allowed me to put a number of our practices under the microscope, separate the composition of the cells and consider what aspects of manipulation would yield the greatest short term and long term impact.
  • It was a welcome opportunity for me to refocus on the ultimate purpose of lesson observation and how well we communicate that to our community.

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