Phil Race

Here are the main slides I used in my keynote on 3rd July, plus the slides I used in my workshop. It’s a big file. University Campus Suffolk (10)

Here are the main slides I used in my day with you on 2nd July. It was great working with you all. Solihull College (16)

I’m working at Leeds until mid-day 1st July, then Solihull on 2nd July, and Ipswich on 3rd July, returning straight to Newcastle late that evening. In the 2nd part of the week I’ll be on trains for over 10 hours, and not likely to pick up emails!

I’ve put up a version of the main slides I used at my keynote, at the foot of the ‘Leeds Met’ page of the site.

Here is a short paper, trying to capture some of my concerns about the curriculum design associated with M-level. All feedback welcome, please email me with comments. Reinventing Masters Level Assessment (143)

I’ve written a new booklet on this for Leeds Met. Several of the Teacher Fellows of Leeds  Met volunteered comments on both being observed and acting as an observer, and I am also particularly grateful to several National Teaching Fellows from across the country who did the same. You can see the booklet using the link at the bottom of the Leeds Met page of my site. I’ve also added to the site an example of a checklist which can be used by observers, downloadable here: (note: this checklist is too long for use as it stands - my intention is to give you ideas to adapt in making your own) Peer observation checlist for a lecture (160)

I recommend you to explore:
‘Hands-on Internationalisation’ by David Killick,
‘Cultural Inclusivity’ by Yasmin Valli, Sally Brown and myself,
‘Writing and using good learning outcomes’ by David Baume. 
‘Using peer observation to enhance teaching’ by me, with contributions from Leeds Met Teacher Fellows and several National Teaching Fellows.
These can be ordered from Leeds Met at £5.00 a copy (I don’t get a penny of this) or supplied electronically for you to adapt under site licence. Details of all of these are now on the Leeds Met page of this site, where you can link to pdf files of each to explore them at your leisure.

You know what I mean? They’re relatively small, shiny and low! Please see the download here for why we should more often than not get rid of them in our large classrooms. not so clever whiteboards (408)

Many visitors to this site will know my model of five factors underpinning successful learning, written up in ‘Making Learning Happen’ in 2005, and in other things I’ve written recently. You may also know that I included ‘teaching’ and ‘assessing’ as extra ‘ripples’. After working with colleagues at Leeds Met (the National Centre for Coaching Excellence’), I now think that ‘teaching/explaining/coaching’ is indeed a fundamental factor involved in deepening students’ learning, and after working with David Boud from Australia, that ‘assessing’ - especially ‘making informed judgements about one’s own learning’ also deserves to be included in the model, not just as ‘an extra’. Therefore the new version of my model will discuss seven factors rather than the original five, and will be published in the 2nd edition of ‘Making Learning Happen’ due out in 2010. I’ve prepared a new version of my slides for this model, which you can download here. Ripples model seven factors (1723)

I’m running a lot of workshops on assessment nowadays, and I hope this compendium of extracts from various of my books will be useful to participants and to others. Assessment compendium (1332)