NPTC Group of Colleges
Inspiring Induction Practices
- A journey on which the fog was lifting with every mile travelled, unveiling exciting new ideas that were there all along.
- I need to be far more creative during induction!
- Encouraged me to think outside of the box.
- There is light at the end of the tunnel.
- I need to remember to add excitement and explore new activities and ideas to initially engage learners.
- I think it made me realise just how important the induction process really is to students and how it can make a very real difference to the college experience.
- Think bigger!
- I would like to introduce a pre college party/teambuilding session outside of the classroom so students have the chance to get to know others from their tutor groups/subject areas, not 100% sure how yet, but building on our ideas from today.
- The session has given a greater insight of how the induction experience can be more motivating.
- Be more evaluative of the induction process and its main aim, work with colleagues to create a more inspiring experience.
Learning Motivation
- A leap of faith, followed by a solid landing! It was excellent. Probably the most inspirational INSET session I’ve experienced in years (the last one I valued this highly was about 20 years ago!!).
- Standing back and seeing the whole cathedral.
- AWESOME!
- Out of the box.
- Feels like a metamorphosis!
- It got the creative thoughts racing!
- “Life’s a climb. But the view is great.” —Hannah Montana: the Movie ….. This session has helped with the climb 🙂 thank you.
- Illuminating
- It was like being on a journey!
- Learning to ice-skate – tentative and nervous at first with a fear of falling, but gradually building confidence to increase speed, let go and glide smoothly and freely. Learning to ride a bike – start with stabilisers, but gradually the person behind you lets go and you didn’t even realise you were doing it on your own.
- Great ideas and inspiring.
- Learning is a rollercoaster: it’s full of highs and lows!
- A journey of revelation into what makes up our college year.
- This has been a fantastic morning and it has definitely motivated me as a teacher to address the motivation issues. I have plenty to think about and am inspired to do a lot more.
- Ensure learners feel more in control of their learning.
- I am certainly thinking about the course less rigidly than before, more emphasis on learner motivation over just the content.
- Most definitely! Need to make the start of the course more creative and introduce team challenges.
- I am definitely going to use some of the ideas we have looked at today.
- I will take a bit more time to stop and think about where and how I address a lack of motivation in students and try creating a few key exercises that students can look forward to.
- It has helped me to understand the times when I need to add more excitement into my course so that the learners don’t lose interest.
- Recognise periods of low motivation in the timetable and fill them with unmissable events.
- Thinking about the difference between issues and symptoms was also helpful.
- Gave me some great ideas of thinking ‘big’ and how to make it ‘fit’ into the reality of college life.
- It made me focus on the root cause rather than the symptoms of lack of motivation; we should re-evaluate the motivational issues and work back to the root causes.
- By planning an unmissable experience, such as a trip, in January when motivation is low.
- I hope you will come back to NPTC Group of Colleges so that I have an opportunity to attend more sessions.
- A great example of good online teaching practice. I liked the way you put us at ease by describing how to use Zoom – this removed some barriers to learning (even though you may have felt you were stating the obvious). I think technology can put students off, if they are not used to it, but as tutors, we forget because we use it every day. It was a valuable experience for me to be a student in an online lesson and helped me to empathise with them.
Perfecting Progress Reviews
- A deep dive into the field of progress reviews, splashing out my previous thoughts and feelings, allowing brand new ideas to flow forth!
- Stage one: slow sheep, Stage two: curious cat, Stage three: enthusiastic border collie.
- I will be using the GROW model to carry out future reviews and make sure that they are more learner lead.
- Attitude: invested in the process. Action: plan to elicit difference and not focus on process.
- I have really enjoyed all of the sessions I have attended, and will be recommending them to my colleagues.
- Hesitant to enjoyment to confidence to inspired!
- EXCELLENT course which kept us engaged fully!!!
- Incredibly informative and interesting training with the right balance of activities and engagement with speaker – the best CPD event I have attended!!
- I believe a lot was achieved in a very small amount of time. Tony was great at keeping everyone engaged and it was quiet obvious that he knows his topic and can help facilitate the development of the standard.
- “Wild and Wonderful” in a positive way, of how to engage with a student’s mind – to help them emotionally accept learning, but also accept themselves and their own learning journey progress.
- Enlightened, motivated and refocused.
- Very inspiring and helpful session, I have always felt that there was a gap in the way that attention was being paid to the teaching process rather than on the learners’ “walk across the carpet”.
- A deep dive into the field of progress reviews, splashing out my previous thoughts and feelings, allowing brand new ideas to flow forth!
- Thank you so much for the time and energy given during this session, I thoroughly enjoyed the whole concept, breaking down the idea that progress reviews are stagnant and outdated. By focusing on this new design, using new skills and developing the learner, this will most certainly improve my practice.
- Learning today was like cracking a code.
- “Wild and Wonderful” in a positive way, of how to engage with a student’s mind – to help them emotionally accept learning, but also accept themselves and their own learning journey progress.
- Greater understanding that allowing or coaching greater independence is more important than some stuff.
- Enlightened, motivated and refocused.
- Very inspiring and helpful session, I have always felt that there was a gap in the way that attention was being paid to the teaching process rather than on the learners’ “walk across the carpet”.
- Learning today was like cracking a code.
Quality Standard – Progress Reviews
- Not only have I taken away new information to put in the Progress reviews, the pedagogy tools that were used were fantastic.
- It has made me rethink the learners’ entire experience of coming to college and unshackled me of the operational difficulties.
- Positive mindsets allow aspirational progress.
- Thought provoking and inspiring.
- Searching for that nugget of gold that will make a difference.
- Informative, interesting, enlightening.
- Inspired Understood Motivated
- I found myself interested and and included throughout…
- It’s opened my mind to so much more of what goes on behind the scenes of teaching.
- Thought-provoking and useful time to engage with peers and share ideas for a vital piece of college material.
- Today’s session is a stage for change!
- I have a clearer understanding of how to organise progress reviews.
- Excited to be a part of this journey for NPTC students and staff.
- Empowering and refreshing. Lovely to see the commitment level from all areas of the college working collaboratively to drive this forward.
- Aspirational quality standards will positively affect students and their performance and in turn positively impact the staff.
- That we need to promote the learner voice and allow for person centred approaches.
- We need to work together to plan a strategy for helping our students be the best they can be.
- Question and further develop current practices.
- Using different language when writing progress reviews, for example, stop writing we’re giving the students the skills to, and instead write students are.
- Structured approach to quality planning.
- The importance of using the quality standard taxonomy to achieve meaningful and usable standards of review.
- This was a very proactive session.
- Taken me out of my comfort zone and learning new ways of thinking. Feeling very inspired- thank you.
- That I work with an amazing group of people who are all committed to making a difference in young peoples lives. That we can have a real impact by making changes to our approach to progress reviews.
- Collaboration and a whole college approach is key
- I have a clearer understanding of how to organise progress reviews.
- How can we use this to streamline and improve student communication. Wanting to get it right.
- Focussing on difference not how we will do it
- We need a more joined-up approach.
Be aspirational – focus on impact and difference not ‘stuff’.
The Art of Using Target Setting
- Looking in a mirror and realising how ridiculous you look.
- I have always felt that Target setting has baffled me and therefore been unable to support my learners in a way they’ve needed. I now feel I can grasp the target setting and pass it on to the learners for them to develop the skills.
- As a result of this session, I appreciate so much more the art of target setting. I always knew it took time and expertise, but I’ll change my approach to make sure those aspirations are made clear up front.
- I look forward to experimenting using project Management instead of SMART target setting with both myself and my learners in September.
- “Throw SMART target setting out with the bath water!”
- The journey had a few bumps in the path, but led me to an open glade with light filtering through the trees.
- Aspirational oil paintings!
- Reminded me to check I’m on course to safely arrive at my destination.
- Eye opening.
- I will be leading my learners to complete their targets with guidance as oppose to doing it for them and then them not being invested in their set targets. I am also not going to be so hung up on SMART targets.
- Need to work on the aspirational side and encourage learners to set their own targets. I need to work on aspirations, mastery and ambitious elements.
Attitude: I trust them to do it. Action: Allow students to think about, develop and monitor their own targets. - I am going to do more work with the students to train them to set targets for themselves and put processes in place to review these.
- I want to explore more motivational targets so that my students are excited by target setting, rather than dreading it as they do now.
- Help learners to know how to set their own targets. Focus on aspirational goals rather than skills and knowledge. I realised that I am like the computer teacher who taught you web design. Differentiation is difficult, but necessary to engage learners at opposite ends of the spectrum. These are skills I need to develop.
The Evaluative Conversation – Transformational Lesson Observation
- Enlightened and challenged.
- I like the idea of the practitioner having control and responsibility of their own development. There is no need for negative feedback when you can empower someone to be their best. Focus on reflection and evaluation with links to common solutions.
Tools for Online Engagement & Blended Learning
- A melting pot of useful tools.
- My brain is a bed of blossoming seeds.
- ‘The past doesn’t equal the future’
- Picking daisies.
- Discovering new technology is like getting a parcel that you can’t remember ordering.
- Enlightening. I would like to have follow-up sessions on 1 topic per session.
- I think it has given me so many new ways to prep and engage with my learners. I think Blendspace will create a great pre learning for my learners.
- Inspired me to consider new tools.
- Even though I am an avid user of online learning technology, this session gave me insight into techniques I could use to develop my teaching further.
- Although I use some of the tools we looked at, some are slightly varied due to us using Teams, however there were several new ones that I will definitely explore and look forward to using with my students and sharing with colleagues.
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