Coleg Cambria

by Tony Davis · July 23rd, 2019 · · Comments are off for this post

Assessment & the Art of Lazy Teaching

• A whirlwind of excitement of new ideas.
• Many thanks for another fabulous training session. Always so much to think about and an enjoyable experience. Well done on the technology for your card games and the Breakouts!
• Another inspirational session with lots of ideas to develop my formative assessment. A good range of techniques provided and it was useful to see how some would be more relevant in a given situation. Also useful to meet up with colleagues from different subject areas, to see how this impacts on the types of assessment that could be used.
• I really enjoyed today, and I enjoyed doing it online meeting others from around the college. Tony was very welcoming and made you feel at ease discussing your thoughts.
• The session did help to improve these aspects of my assessment strategies. I would like to ensure that students take ownership of their understanding.
• I feel I know what directions I should be moving in to improve.
• Those three hours did seem to fly by and group work remotely is possible!
• So many takeaways and so generous in terms of ideas and techniques. The variety of techniques and to think more widely about what “assessment” entails.

Learning Motivation – designing unmissable experiences

• It was the match to an extinguished fire.
• Another excellent and thought provoking session. A chance to look at things from a new perspective and maybe revise old tired schemes of work.
• I found today really useful. Some training that we have on offer isn’t useful and I am glad I chose this. It will definitely support my planning for next year. It really has made me think about my own delivery and how ‘switched off’ my learners become. Thank you.
• I was inspired to find an unmissable experience to latch my theory sessions onto. I’m sure there are options, but as always it comes down to time and whether it can be made to work.
• Positively motivated and reassured that I am doing the right things.
• Lightbulb moment!
• Mind opening.
• I would like to try to link some topics into an overarching theme with an exciting finale that would provide the students with the desire to work hard on new and potentially difficult topics.
• Try to get my team on board!!
• As I deliver different subjects I will use it for different things:
  1 – To completely change up delivery of theory lessons
  2 -Plan visits to businesses
  3 – Focus on how I view the learning experience for the learner
• When I eventually begin my PGCSE, I will incorporate immersive “zone” based learning when teaching. I would love for my learners to be able to look back at sessions and see them as memorable and exciting. I want to be able to make them feel keen to learn!
• Be more diligent in getting learners to take control of their learning.
• Think about skills and experiences over information content.
• Add more “Experience” into my curriculum planning.
• Try harder to dedicate time to session planning.

Learning Outcomes for Independent Learning

• The clouds dispersing and the sun appearing.
• When I read the preparation material I thought – oh heck, not another session on learning outcomes, but the session was much more than this.
• The training has shone a light on the the elements of my practise I need to revisit.
• A cauldron bubbling with ideas and possibilities.
• It’s not about the stuff you teach, it’s the difference it makes!
• Yes, incorporating attitudinal change into learning outcomes moving away from something that just covers the content.
• Rather than getting bogged down with content the session was a great reminder of what pedagogy should be – focus on the learners.
• Oh yes , definitely. I now have work to do on looking again at my learning outcomes and hopefully I can share this approach with colleagues.
• I have a group titled ‘resilience’ next year, so I will definitely be focusing LO’s more often on attitudes and body, rather than mainly brain for maths and English. It also made me think about group dynamics, as some of my groups this year did not have cliques/loners and some were affected at times.
• Will defiantly re-look how I write learning outcomes, will use the colour coded approach. I will try and introduce attitude challenges. A good point that I will take on board is making the sessions more fun and relevant to the job that they do (hairdressing).
• It has inspired me to rethink my LOs. I intend to use more LOs that encourage independent learning.
• Switching a bright light on.
• I am going to start to reflect, evaluate and reconstruct my learning outcomes.
• Using brain, body, attitude model.
• Revisiting Bloom’s mountain, noticing new things on the trek.
• Interesting, got me out of a rut.
• Sounds silly but I will now be writing what we are actually doing not something that sounds official or ‘what I think I should write’.
• Helps me focus on what is really important. This will ultimately help the learner’s journey.

Learning Theorists and the Emotional Learning Journey

• It has been interesting and insightful, looking at lesson planning from a different perspective.
• To consider the emotional response (outcomes) I want from learners, rather than simply focusing on the topic learning outcomes.
• Timings were effective to allow discussion. Great circulation around the breakout groups to ensure we were on track and completing tasks correctly. I am frustrated that I have not attended the previous two sessions, so will have to look out for these next time around.
• Excellent delivery. It would be useful to have a session delivered by Tony on remote learning and the use of technology.

Supercharged evaluation skills

• Literacy can be fun. I have loads to think of.
• Epiphanous.
• Can’t wait to try and implement what I have learned.
• I have been reborn!
• I will be rearranging class seating as this definitely constrains student development. Literacy games to develop with relation to subject matter.
• A very enjoyable session which thoroughly engaged a diverse group of professionals to produce a positive experience. Thank you!
• Thank you for delivering a session with empathy and understanding towards the learner.
• Like watering a flower to make the bloom brighter.
• A shower of enjoyable learning.
• I’ll be using the colour system to encourage my learners to express their opinions. It was great.
• Waterfall of knowledge.
• I will use the colour system of ‘object’, ‘judgement’, ‘reason’ and ‘impact’ when doing reflection tasks with learners.
• It was like waking up in the morning, new day, new focus, fresh.
• It reminded me about my own learning and how you easily forget to put yourself in their shoes.
• Useful for helping my L3 learners with exam technique – answering questions (particularly explain/evaluate, etc) in the correct way and in enough detail. Scaffolding also useful for all levels.
•  [I need] More scaffolding of technical vocab. Greater empathy with their lack of confidence.. Using colour coding to help learning of vocabulary and report structures.
• Fantastic.
• Interesting and thought provoking!
• [I need to] Show students how to evaluated own and others’ work. Thank you, an enjoyable session.
• Using a structure to develop academic writing skills in students. They struggle to critically evaluate, so this will really help. Really enjoyed the session – lots of thoughts to take away.
• [I need to] Give feedback in full colour.
• It let me see what students feel like in lessons when using scaffolding to develop their understanding of classroom tasks.
• Very powerful session in which I was able to evaluate my own practice and consider how I could embed the new learning from the session.
• Being able to direct them [learners] when completing evaluative assignments.
• Good at building on ideas for scaffolding and how to implement.
• A very motivational session. Great ideas and innovative resources. Thank you! J
• Like a breath of fresh air.
• Challenging and enjoyable training session. Will use to develop initial evaluation and induction of students.
• Thought provoking!
• It has made me think about how I will look less at the ‘stuff’ and more at the development of the learner.
• Enlightening. [I need to] Rethink ways of engaging learners and how they think.
• Some great activities to use/adapt to develop skills – love 8-week induction. Great session, thanks.
• Being more creative in my approach.
• Upward and interesting.
• Thought provoking and able to link very clearly to my own area of practice.
• Excellent session with some food for thought.
• Motivational. Excellent session giving great ideas on how to engage learners.
• Students often find it hard to fully evaluate in writing – this will be used in a study skills session to then be used in teaching sessions too.
• Has given me ideas to ‘add’ a colour to the list – to add ‘criticality’ for my HE students.
• The fog has partially cleared, now I just need a sunny spell to drive away the rest.
• This will clearly set a method for them to evaluate their practice.
• Muddy waters have cleared.
• It gave me ideas of how to stretch learners, develop their vocabulary, making them more confident in their use of language. Made me want to create more innovative learning opportunities – with the use of the full-colour language.
• Will use all resources on line.
• I teach ACL literacy/numeracy and the scaffolding techniques will be useful for me.
• Like dusting off the cogs before oiling them for September.
• [I need to] Give structure/scaffolding in the form of word banks.
• Like a positive experience down memory lane.

The Art of Using Target Setting

• Thought provoking ideas on how the learner is taking charge of their learning.
• Blinkers – removed.
• Tunnel – Light!
• Thought provoking. More inspiration into the lesson. Enjoyed the session.
• Re-ignition.
• [I need] More emphasis on aspirations.
• Innovation, and looking from the students’ view/experience.
• Outstanding.
• Curiosity to learn new ideas.
• The concept of learner-centred evaluation is interesting and worth further investigation…
• Lots of food for thought.
• Lightbulb/blue-sky thinking.
• Identify ways to assess feedback from the learner not assessor.
• You cannot judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree. Ask learners to reflect more.
• Enjoyable.
• Every journey starts with the first step!
• Assessing learner ability and adjusting learning plan to suit individual needs. Valuable event.
• It has helped with reflecting with the learners.
• [I need to] Look at how to aspire more and how to use student feedback more. Very informative
• enjoyable session.
• We enjoyed the session. It’s been wonderful tonight…

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