Presenter:
Glen Pearsall Giving helpful feedback and creating meaningful assessment tasks while keeping up with correction and managing a successful work/life balance is one of the biggest challenges of teaching. This workshop offers practical and easy-to-implement strategies for making the most of assessment for you and your students. Based on groundbreaking recent research (Hattie, Timperlay etc.) and 'road tested' in classroom situations this course offers teachers highly effective ways to assess and transform the work and approach of their students. The course explores specifically designed learning games and activities, work samples and black line masters that can be used to create fast and effective feedback to and from students, techniques for reducing the amount and nature of your correction load and revision and reflection strategies that get real results. The goal here is explore practical ways to help students of all abilities make substantial improvements to the way they approach their learning.
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  | So many real, useful techniques and ideas to use. Glen is very knowledgable and convincing. |
| Very knowledgable and thorough in his subject matter, delivered with passion. |
  | A practical, stimulating discussion of feedback and assessment strategies. |
| Excellent presenter. |
| Excellent strategies on offer that can be easily incorporated in the classroom. The presentation was highly informational. |
| Lots of interesting games etc but still unsure how my parking (not assessment load) is reduced. |
| The strategies discussed were quite simple and applicable to various subject areas especially mathematics. |
| Given me a lot of strategies to use in the classroom. |
| Glen was a great and knowledgable presenter. Had lots and great strategies to use. Course title could have been more explicit. |
| The presenter was very engaging and well prepared. |
| Very well presented. Some great strategies. |
| A lot of practical ideas, very useful. |
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| Very enthusiastic presentation, efficient strategies (hopefully), plenty of things to go home with. |
| Fantastic practical ideas and approaches. Casual and positive presentation. Refreshing ideas for the classroom. |
| The presenter was very engaging. He offered many practical activities, concepts and personal experience. |
| Great useful and applicable activities I can't wait to get back to school and try. |
| Well presented. Content helpful for engagement. Title of course made me expect slightly different content. |
| I think it is very well suited to high school, would be good to see one aimed solely at primary. |
| I've learned a lot of useful strategies that I can implement into my classes. |
| Many answers/ suggestions for ongoing feedback. |
| Great ideas/ techniques for feedback, 'hands on' activities broke up the day, not exactly the course I thought I signed up for but still very useful. |
| Very practical which is exactly why I came. Really enjoyed the examples given - will definitely use them |
| So many practical classroom ideas! I loved the shortened lunch idea too. I'm goign to but the book now! |
