Phil Race

Here are the slides for my 3^rd (and final)  workshop on ‘Making Foundation Learning Happen’ at UCLan on 24^th September. UCLan 3 w (563 downloads) . Thanks to participants for a lovely mixture of experience, open-ness, wisdom and humour at this session – Foundation learners will be safe in your hands. Thanks also to the Salvation Army, Preston who made us most welcome for the day – ‘may that peace which passeth understanding remain with us all’.

The following piece on planning and assessing critical incident accounts will be in the 2015 4th edition of ‘The Lecturer’s Toolkit’, but I thought it may be useful now too (it wasn’t in the 3rd edition). Critical incident accounts (579 downloads)

Here is a short piece on vivas, including a bit about pros and cons, and some tips for getting students into the processes leading to successful oral exams. This is from ‘The Lecturer’s Toolkit’ (from the existing 2007 edition, and the forthcoming 2015 edition). Nothing groundbreaking here, but could be useful. Vivas (639 downloads)

Here are the main slides I used in my two workshops on self- and peer-assessment ARU Assessment Fiesta (698 downloads) . I’ve transcribed and included all your post-its – a great summary of the agenda for implementing self- and peer-assessment, thanks.
I did one extra bit in the morning workshop, which I did not manage to include in the afternoon one (age, excellent tapas lunch), so the afternoon folk might like to get someone from the morning group to talk them through the bit leading to that ‘missing word’. Have fun.
Both groups were great to work with. I also particularly enjoyed the roadshow of the excellent things that are going on regarding assessment at ARU – such enthusiasm, initiative and passion – very well done.

Here are the main slides from our day together, and the bit of Sally’s book I quoted. You were a splendid audience, thoroughly professional, and with the interests of your students always uppermost – thanks so much. Bit from Sally's new book (596 downloads) , BCU Smarter Feedback (584 downloads)

Here are the slides we used today, again protected by the password you formulated for me this morning. Sorry I couldn’t get them up earlier this evening – trains were delayed by a signal failure at Preston. UCLan 2 (589 downloads) . Here also is a link to the paper I mentioned about making lectures interactive Active lectures paper (776 downloads) . Thank you for being a great group – we covered a great deal more relevant to Foundation learning than happened with yesterday’s group. Bearing in mind how useful ‘verbalising’ is for deepening learning, you might like to talk through some of the extra things we did today, using the slides as aides memoires, with any colleagues you know who attended yesterday’s session.

Here are the password-protected slides from our day together on 9th September. Due to discussion of various matters, there are parts of the intended content not yet covered. I look forward to working with more colleagues tomorrow and on the 24th. uCLAN1 (586 downloads)

Please could anyone trying to get through to Sally use sally@sally-brown.net or s.brown@leedsbeckett.ac.uk from now on. Her former Leeds Met email address has now been replaced by the latter.

This 30 minute BBC Radio 4 interview with John Hattie is great food for thought for all who wish to make learning happen. He discusses the importance of passion in great teaching, and also many other things that  have marginal or even negative effects. He also mentions getting learners talking, rather than just listening to, or watching teachers. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04dmxwl What he says about children learning extends well to higher and further education teaching.

Flying home with Sally via Paris after our nearly two weeks in Santiago; now back in Paris. We had a great time, and Sally gave two keynotes and a workshop, as well as both of us visiting four Faculties and talking about all sorts of things to do with assessment, learning and teaching. The link takes you to a video of extracts from Sally’s big presentation at the Catholic University of Chile, with Spanish commentary.

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