Perfecting Progress Reviews

by Tony Davis · January 19th, 2021 · · 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.

Adult Education Wolverhampton

• Eye opening.
• Give our students the wings to fly themselves.
• Use the … to encourage student contributions. Get the student to summarise the talk. Develop expert independent learning skills.

Askham Bryan College

• Make changes!!
• Allow the student to make their own progress report with my support. Follow up on this – roleplay. Fantastic!!
• Great delivery that looks critically at expected inspection ideologies.
• Opened the curtains.
• I really enjoyed it! Not confrontational but got everyone involved.

Barnet and Southgate College

• Today was like walking along a sandy beach and finding interesting shells to take home and finish covering my gift box for my personal tutors and students.
• It’s provided me with a springboard to set standards for our progress reviews, instead of looking at just the process. I tend to focus too much on the process. Also I felt the way you designed and delivered your session was very developmental and I will take you techniques on board.

Blackburn with Darwin Borough Council

• I like the idea of helping learners to fly.

Blackpool Adult Learning Service

• The difference between being locked on a rigid train track with a single destination and a scenic, pleasurable journey where the details on the way are just as important.

Bolton College

•  A road map to outstanding.

Calderdale College

• Enlightening.
• Like moving from A-B with a blindfold that has been removed so we can see the whole journey.
• The “…” Discussion hit home – create an environmental where the learner can lead the discussion.

Cheshire College South & West

• I learnt a lot about the review process and began to question if our review sheets need to change.
• Enjoyed the session, very interactive.
• A jar of marbles sums up the session for me. At the start of the day my jar was empty and at the end it was full.

Chesterfield College

• Pleasantly tired from all the ideas and enthusiastic about the future!!
• Music to the soul.
• Use of curious questions to draw out learner with no agenda.
• Loved the use of the video for this session.
• Help staff develop ‘language’ of mastering curious questions…
• Crossing a river.

City College Coventry

• I really love the idea of differentiation I learnt today. I will apply it.
• An eye opener on what we could do better.

City College Peterborough

• Metamorphosis of a chrysalis to a butterfly. Transformative!
• Scrapping what Ofsted are looking for and it being a tick-box exercise for them, and creating a standard that is learner specific. Looking at the Organisation’s aspiration for achieving ‘outstanding’ by collating emotional and academic evidence. Changing terminology to actually mean something to the learner and demonstrating ‘rich pedagogy’.

City College Plymouth

• Achieving creativity.
• Thinking about who should be present during a review. Rather than go by a checklist, develop a high quality example for staff.

East Coast College

• Inspired to complete more meaningful progress reviews.
• Thought provoking. Not used the GROW model before so interesting to see this.
• Like a soap opera, looking forward to the next episode.

East Kent College

• Student led reviews are the way forward. The person that talks the most gets the most from the experience!
• We will be looking at developing our paperwork to try and focus not so much on the stuff but rather on the difference.
• Very engaging. Tony is an expert at what he does and clearly explains things so everyone understands. Nice to have training relevant to exactly what is happening in the sector.

Geason

• My journey opened up new horizons.
• Creating a quality standard that would encourage independent learning management.
• Tony gave space for and encouraged contributions throughout the session. He valued opinions and views made by the group.

HETA

• This identified that progress reviews will be a cultural change and not a procedural change.
• A great session. Very informative
• Get the learner engaged more

Hills Road College

• Highly stimulating.
• Clarified the notion of considering the IMPACT that process can make and that all discussions and interviews should be conducted with positive change in mind.

Hopwood Hall College

• Today was the start of a journey to empower my learners to take ownership and identify their own strengths and areas for development.
• Be more specific but subtle and encourage learners to take ownership of their own reviews and progress, to take the initiative.
• Insightful. I will consider the questions I use during tutorials and plan them better before they take place.

JTL Training

• I think for me it would be the lightbulb moment of understanding that the main focus and goal of my job is making the difference to a learners life and not just their apprenticeship experience.
• Time well spent. Clear, engaging and thought provoking.
• It taught me about how to be more present in the moment, worrying less about statistics and more about knowing you are making an impact on the learner and as long as progress is made and they gain fulfilment, that is enough!

Lancashire Adult Learning

• Brilliant start and excellent examples.

Leicester College

• Flipping the responsibility for reviews, ‘Apprentices are not employees’.
• Ask apprentices to complete their review forms in advance of my visit and get them to lead the review.
• To concentrate less on ‘stuff’ and more on ‘Difference’. Relook at outcome setting. How to use ellipses when doing reviews. Also to have more learner-led reviews.

MTC Training

• New assessment strategies to make the learners actually learn and be self-critical and evaluative.
• A new perspective: making the learners independent which is the actual meaning of learning and gaining knowledge.
• Climbing to the ‘top-deck’ of the assessment ship.

Myerscough College

• Perfecting progress reviews. ‘It’s coming home’.
• Like floating across a ‘Red Carpet’ and enjoying the journey.
• Music to my ears.

Newbubbles (open event)

• The use of data is especially interesting and something I will encourage colleagues to look at, as is the quality standard.
• Inspired by leader’s passion for developing education.
• Enlightened by Tony’s passion for the subject.

Newcastle College

• Some fantastic guidance which is transferable within my role.
• Your visit has been like a breath of fresh air, and because you come from Ofsted it was exactly your opinions people needed to hear!
• It was like eating a sprout – I like sprouts, they are good for you, but not everyone gets them.

North West Training Council

• It made me feel enlightened.
• Think it’s great! Thanks Tony.
• Steak and Chips (Tasty)
• Approach my progress reviews with less of an emphasis on a tick box exercise and more focus on handing the review to the teacher.
• Excellent.

Northern College

• I will create more space to develop the story/narrative, to develop the context of the tutorial.

Northern Trains Ltd

• I don’t currently do progress reviews but the development of quality standards that focus on the best outcome and can be used to reflect on performance are really useful and inspiring for my other programmes.
• Great discussion around agreeing what good progress reviews look like.
• Refreshed my knowledge and understanding how reviews can be conducted.

Nottingham College

• Transformational.
• Mindset changing and a different idea of reviews. I would like to be more open-ended in my progress reviews.
• It tore up some of the old myths around what used to be a good progress review.

NPTC Consortium of Work-based Providers

• I love listening to Tony- he is a fountain of knowledge and the sessions are so informative. Thank you for all of the hard work you have put into this. It has been invaluable to me in my role, especially being new and not from an assessor background.
• No words – best session to date. Defiantly do my reviews separate with the learner and the employer to draw more out of the learner.
• It’s my mission to improve the way in which I approach the review process.

NPTC Group of Colleges

• EXCELLENT course which kept us engaged fully!!!
• A deep dive into the field of progress reviews, splashing out my previous thoughts and feelings, allowing brand new ideas to flow forth!
• Incredibly informative and interesting training with the right balance of activities and engagement with speaker – the best CPD event I have attended !!
• Stage one: slow sheep, Stage two: curious cat, Stage three: enthusiastic border collie.

Preston’s College

• Mega lightbulb moment 🙂
• Loved the session. Helped me to think about how to get my review process to be outstanding.

Quest Training

• Information and examples can clear the murky waters.
• This session has totally made me re think the systems and process we have in place in my setting and how we can change our focus moving forward.
• It certainly helped me to re think our review process, we will now develop our own standards with our team and change the paperwork we have in place.

Reaseheath College

• A sea of inspiration.
• I wished it could have been longer. It is one of the best uses of zoom and presenting I have seen and it kept me engaged in the topic.
• Excellent, very practical.

RNN College Group

• Motivated to make change.
• I am keen to explore how some of the ideas today can be moulded to use around the current structure I have to abide by. There were lots of helpful tips to make the process more meaningful and to support a move away from ‘stuff’.
• I think the session was really well structured. I think I have a range of new tools in my toolkit, I just need time and scope to try a few out.

Solihull college

• I love your style, you are different and engaging.
• I am bubbling with excitement for my reviews.
• Reviews are the most powerful tool we have to empower a leaner and raise the standard.

South Downs College

• Another excellent session. I experienced another session which was led by Tony many years ago. One of the very few I have remembered!!
• A candle being lit.

Suffolk New College

• My next progress review can’t come quick enough.
• Deliver group progress review sessions to build on learners’ communication skills, reflective skills and team building. To also ensure I am ‘passing the talking stick’ more often.
• I thoroughly enjoyed the session and took a lot from it.

Stretford Grammar School

• Absolutely fantastic. I actually feel quite energised.
• Approach to progress reviews will be different.
• Great event – worthwhile on every level.

Sysco

• Really beneficial session, I am new to the education world so it was really useful.
• Readying revolutionary, rigorous, robust reviews are recommended and a revelation.
• Change my approach to progress meetings.
• Provided me with a clear focus on how to enhance our current review process focussing on the impact on the individual.
• Really great session, engaging really enjoyed the observation section this gave me a chance to practice my listening skills.

The Oxford Partnership (Saudi Arabia)

• Your art work is a master piece only you can sometimes see. Perfecting progress reviews is what you and your team (students) want your masterpiece to look like, and the difference you want to make to help them become that artist.
• It was an inspirational lesson as always, focusing on letting the learner have autonomy of her learning, in a very conscious way.
• The slides were brilliant.

The Learning Foundry

• Like the barn door being opened and being let out into the sunny meadow.
• How to set a scene, ask questions without being too intrusive. Getting info without putting words in [learners’] mouths.

TPM

• Like climbing a mountain, reaching the top you get a great sense of achievement.
• Need to meet with other leads to discuss changes that will better reflect learner aspirations, progress, development etc.. Thank you for a great session.
• An enjoyable experience. How to encourage learners to take ownership of the progress.

Trafford College

• Really informative session.

West Cheshire College

• (We need to) standardise this practice throughout the college.

West Thames College

• Target setting on its head.
• I love the way Tony always turns things upside down and inside out and makes me think outside the box.

Wirral Metropolitan College

• Really informative session and has given me lots of food for thought. I will view my performance reviews now in a new light and thought it was a excellent session – got to be the best online teaching session I’ve ever witnessed! Thank you
• Enjoyed the session! Lots to take in!
• An excellent and thought provoking session. Useful active listening skills and notion of putting the learner at the heart of the review. Not just a process but actually making a difference. looking forward to discovering further with my team.

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