Lincoln College International

by Tony Davis · January 21st, 2021 · · Comments are off for this post

Assessment & the Art of Lazy Teaching

• I now think that it is better to think of it as informative and to inform what happens next…and to ask…how do I want my learners to be different.
• 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!!

Learning Motivation – designing unmissable experiences

• Exhilarating…
• Tap into my imagination more and always plan with the end in mind. Simplifying assignments so that I am still able to meet the deadline but my students are also just as engaged as I would like them to be without burning out.
• The teacher has become the student.
• To reflect on my own teaching to pin down the reasons for any “issues” in the class.
• It was like finding the soul for every future class. Plan a week that students will look up to and inform them about at the beginning of the semester. Give students more control of their learning journey.

Learning Outcomes for Independent Learning

• It’s been a transformative learning journey, realizing that by crafting the right learning outcomes you can create the expert learners you wish to have in your classroom.
• A road map for effective teaching.
• Focus shift challenge.
• I’ll write my objectives and learning outcomes in a better way. Every 2 sessions, I’ll focus on one trait for expert learner in my learning outcomes. I’ll add body, and attitude learning outcomes to my lesson. Also in some of my lesson plans, I’ll add objectives that will be shown later to develop curiosity.
• Plan lessons around creating independent learners rather than just focusing on the ability to complete tasks successfully.
• Challenge myself to shift learning focus despite entrenched attitudes to learning. Use collaborative resources.

Perfecting Self-Assessment Writing

• As always a session to make me reflect and consider how I can develop myself and my skill set and therefore any team I work alongside.

The Art of Using Target Setting

• Good to be reminded that we should differentiate the support and teaching strategies and not the expectations.
• What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as who you become when you achieve them – love this. Qualitative over quantitative.
• Inspired, the session was eyes opening and made me look at Target setting from different prospective.
• I really enjoyed the session. It offered me a way of thinking about expert independent skills and I will try my best to incorporate it from my end as student support.
• This session helped me looking into target setting differently. I am excited to go back to work while using this method.
• The way I will write my goals and development plans will be focused on the aspiration and motivation aspect that will better support students to progress, achieve and be more ambitious.
• A map for the learning journey. It helps to light a candle for the less experience students who get neglected unintentionally by less expectations. Engage students in setting the targets process and plan. Teach 1 skill for independent learning weekly. Teach them: C3 B4 UCme.’

The RED System

• 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.
• What do teachers think of their own work and the impact on their students? It is definitely going to be a steep learning curve to change focusing on stuff to focusing on the difference the teaching is making.
• Insightful and positive! Although my institute wouldn’t be able to officially change the observation procedure to RED, I would like to implement phase 2 specifically as a tool with my team.

Tools for Online Engagement & Blended Learning

• Lots of food for thought as usual!!
• The session supports my thoughts around the importance of ‘social presence’ (and backs up the research out there) and ‘investment and payoff’. There are so many tools to use but they should only be used if they enhance the learning (pedagogy pedigree – fabulous term and now in my repertoire!!) not technology for technology sake.
• Learning is like housework, it’s never done! There will always be something else to learn.
• I was given many options to choose from. I would definitely plan my online lessons to be more interactive. By using some of the tools provided in today’s session.
• I enjoyed it thoroughly, as I am always looking at ways to upskill myself. In today’s session, I was shown so many options I can use in my lessons and I’m excited to try them all.
• They say learning is a gift and today I felt like a kid on Christmas morning or Eid! Thank you for all the precious knowledge I have gained.
• Every week I’m planning to test 2 tools from the session to not overwhelm students. I used to stick with (Quizlet, quizzes, pear doc and write and improve). But after the session I can navigate through more platforms successfully. Also I working on a CPD for GC and I’ll talk about wiki’s and mention that I have learned about it from your session.

Transformational Lesson Observation and the Quality Standard for TLA

• Mind brightening.
• It took me to the sun of teaching .. really amazing.
• I feel amazing and more confident after the course.
• “Learning is like building a house”. We need to start from the basement meaning the simple and basic stuff; small steps, big achievements.
• A great experience, I would like to thank all concerned.
• “The mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it isn’t open” I’m gliding:-).
• Teaching is what makes me get up every morning! Your training highlighted many aspects that me as a first time teacher would not thought of them. It was a great experience and you had such a unique way of presenting the ideas.
• The learning journey for today was wonderful. I gain a lot of experience and creative ideas that will develop my delivery to my role.
• “A lightbulb moment”
• Knowledge is knowing what to say, Wisdom is knowing how to say it. Today’s session raised my awareness to improve ways in which I can scaffold student’s responses in English. Often they know the answers in their mother tongue but lack the vocabulary in English Language.
• Three days before I was thinking of one thing which is ; “How to make the learners’ fully engaged while time is barely enough to deliver the material?” I can’t thank you enough Tony when you ring the bell and said Teaching is about the impact on the learning and the difference that happened on the learners.
• To change from being a ‘sage on stage to rather becoming a guide on the side’
• Encouraged…inspired. One day = two weeks of learning and knowledge!
• Motivated to see the learning impact I can leave on my students.
• The session was very helpful and we learned a lot from Mr. Tony. All the information and resources were very beneficial.
• From yesterday´s lesson I learnt quite a few things and the first one that sound pretty obvious but should be like the on the top of others and is to convert dependant students into independent students; with “stuff” we create a “difference” applied to how students enter in the classroom and how they leave it after.
• I’ll write my strength and weaknesses or what didn’t work well after each session to develop my teaching style. Keeping the focus on the difference that I want to see in my students.
• I will change the kind of activities inside the class and the way the students interact inside the class.
• Using specific terms when addressing my students. Making the introductions of every lesson interesting. Making students curious, where they want to know what the rest the lesson will be about. Using more than one method, technique, strategy in the same lesson making sure that all students learnt something.
• When teaching new concepts, pre-teach the key vocabulary in order to enhance students understanding and make connection with new material been taught.
• Observation is not a criticizing but a way of improvement. Since everyone is a good observer to himself, we should keep a journal for our reflection to lessons.
• As a manager doing formal observations I have learnt to not convey my own feelings and how I feel about lessons. I will remember your words “The person who talks the most feels the best”.
• Focusing on the outcome more than the strategies.
• Be mindful to think of lessons as transformative.
• Keep researching and share good practice with everyone else.
• It was so much useful and gave us opportunity to discuss may important concepts related to teaching and learning experience.
• Fabulous treasure
• Inspired as usual.
• Learning is like building a house. If you have the right foundation your house will stay strong against any forces.
• It was a great opportunity for me as I’m in my first steps in becoming professional teacher . It helped me to think more about the impact of my strategies of teaching and how it affects the students in different ways. I think also our supervisors will use different and better tools to evaluate us which will help us to improve. Thanks a lot for the efforts you’ve put to prepare this workshop to enlighten all teachers.
• A new perspective of practical and interactive teaching methods to be applied in my classes
• Include a section on my lesson plan that states Lesson Reflection (Overall evaluation of positive, negative or missing impact).
• Create our own Quality Standard to hang all our practice on.
• Change the pattern of the sessions and add more activates. Increase the students’ talking time and have extra self learning time.
• It was a great workshop.
• Helping a stuck learner in a better way. Use Jamboard and I used wiki after the session and it helped to engage students more and made their answering process more beneficial and competitive.

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