English skills: an easier life for teachers

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Click each provider’s name to see a detailed list of impact on staff.

Access Creative College

  • Socially engaging and visual. Encouraged teaching and learning strategy thinking.
  • Inspirational assignment briefs that triggered learning.
  • Online delivery and engaging resources eg: Prezi that was being used in session was effective.
  • An enriching exercise to inform present practice.
  • Contextualising GCSE English materials into the different vocational subject areas.
  • Sharing good practise using the Quality Standard.
  • The focus on ‘difference’ rather than ‘stuff’ to achieve effective outcomes.
  • Well organised and planned session.
  • Vital for Life!
  • Stuff & Difference. Creating the Need for Knowledge Spread over a longer time.
  • I am looking forward to watching the recording back so I can break it down, some parts went quickly for me!

Hopwood Hall College

  • A very engaging and informative session. I never knew that English objectives/outcomes could be useful to develop expert learning skills.
  • Returning to college in the new year can sometimes be a baptism of fire, but your molten bronze drops of wisdom helped us to see the light at the end of the Ofsted tunnel.
  • As a teacher of English (and a teacher educator) I love the way you presented the AOs for GCSE Eng Lang as required content in every curriculum.
  • Such fantastic concepts!
  • You have started to restore my faith in teaching and learning.
  • Very informative, increased my knowledge of keeping learners engaged.
  • Learning was fun, like a fairground!
  • Rollercoaster of learning.
  • Looking at learning as an experience and not only as a learning outcome.
  • Think about and consider the emotional journey of my learners.
  • ‘Curiosity’ – need to bring this into my introduction and recap sessions.
  • Very motivating and allowed me to reflect on my own practices and how it can be implemented.
  • Changing how I word and look at lesson plans.
  • The distinction between ‘stuff’ and ‘difference’ was very good and useful.
  • The ‘January low point’ was great!
  • My learning experience was ‘banging’ as Brian Cox would say.
  • I thoroughly enjoyed this session, I feel motivated.
  • The 3 broad experience groups is a much nicer way to describe my learners’ levels at the start of the year.

Wirral Metropolitan College

  • Curiosity skilled the cat.
  • [I need to] Change SoW to engage, use positive reinforcement and excitement.
  • Make your weakest [aspect of provision] your strongest.
  • [I need to] Use one of the assessment activities to incorporate literacy into our sessions.
  • Excellent, informative session. Really interesting and well presented.
  • [I need] More English within sessions using comparative text, etc..
  • Motivational, coming up with better ideas.
  • [I need to] Change the way we interpret English language into our lessons.
  • Use English tools to integrate into the classroom – also look at SoW.
  • [I need to] Make more lessons (subjects) fun. Always engaged with the presenter.
  • Curriculum areas and English have been running parallel for years on a train track, heading for the same destination, but will never meet. You have to derail the train so that the tracks meet, to meet the final destination. Please do a session for English staff!! Derail that train!! 🙂
  • I think parts of this session could be adapted for the English team – adapting SoW to engage students, [to] engage those who we think are not going to pass.
  • A rolling subject gathers some English skills.
  • [I need to] Use English tools to integrate into my own area.
  • Making learning fun. Changing ways of delivery and embedding English into sessions – motivation.
  • Inspiring. [We need to] Use sex more! 🙂
  • Bruce Lee said: ‘You should always train your weakest side first’.
  • A cloud with a silver lining.
  • [I need to] Make it more exciting.
  • I could have listened and learned all day.
  • Sharpened our pencils!
  • A duck to water 🙂 Even more great ideas and inspiration. It’s always a pleasure to attend your lessons.

West Thames College

  • Always look towards outcomes, then build strategies towards that end.
  • A journey of new understanding.
  • I found it useful to see the assessment objectives for GCSE English and have the time to think about how drama can serve these objectives, and embed them in every class.
  • Shamazing!!
  • Changed my own mindset.
  • I enjoyed the session – very motivated.
  • It was delivered very professionally.
  • Enlightening.
  • Light at the end of the tunnel.
  • I thought we’d be talking about [GCSE English] exams. We actually talked about how to develop learners’ skills. I found this much more useful and inspiring – building skills for the future – skills students can use. It needs to be longer.
  • It was like being cocooned in a warm, pleasant sweatshirt.
  • Moved perspective.
  • Enjoyed the delivery style – matched my own.
  • Very useful in generating ideas of how to embed.
  • It was a great session.
  • Really interesting session – active and thought provoking.

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