Below is an 'example' from another course on how this new section will look, it will include past present and future lessons. It will be very fluid and always in a state of flux, in this way it can be flexible and adaptable to change and improvements rather than being in a course file in the staff room. The students will be able to see clearly what is expected of them even before they come into the classroom, and thus allow productive stretch and challenge / homework to take place naturally.
Aims of the Session
This session will be about how the students can track and label their work in line with criteria, so that they know exactly where they are within the framework of the course, the objectives will be unit specific to each student.
Objectives of the Session
To target the criteria as listed on each students own specific units as per the course handbook and criteria per unit.
Introduction
Safeguarding and registers on Celcat System / Lanyard Check. A challenge of any late students will be made and a one to one discussion about this will be made after the session so as not to interrupt the flow of the class.
Outline and Development of Learning Activities
As a tutor I will be at the front of the class with an ipad and be giving formative feedback via this directly onto their own websites. The course is very heavy with formative feedback and it is given very frequently to support, advise and allow time to adapt, change and improve work to achieve a higher grade.
Labelling of work as per the context statement allows the students to take ownership and responsibility for their own work in order to improve their grade.
Labelling of work as per the context statement allows the students to take ownership and responsibility for their own work in order to improve their grade.
Unit Module
Unit specific to chosen units which vary from one student to the next as per the context statement on this website.
Functional / Key Skills for Life
Separate sessions with Functional Skills Tutor to support teaching and learning in all these sessions.
This takes place each week via specialist staff ,this session covers IT and functional skills in literacy and numeracy. This is a 19+ program and as a general rule rarely has younger students, but at the moment we do have one.
Resources / Websites / References
Again this is unit specific to the students chosen units.
Again this is unit specific to the students chosen units.
iPad, Mac computer, Plasma TV, Xbox 360, Kinect system and cables (all PAT tested), extension lead, fully equipped photography studio, studio lights and accessories, Flip video camera and tripod.
Assessment Strategies
The assessment of work is aided by the 'Self Tracking and Self Labelling' of any work that is produced. This is vital in understanding 'where' you are within the curriculum and taking ownership of their own learning as it is delivered, so later in this session we will be covering this in the classroom. And allows for accurate and timely adaptation or targeting of criteria that may have not been met. And it also allows confirmation to the students as to what they have achieved as well. All of this self tracking is commented on by the tutor as the students progress in a very strong formative manner, on a regular and written evidenced method which appears automatically next to their work on their blog websites.
This 'SMART' target labelling allows the students to take control of their own learning and grasp an understanding of how to gauge and measure their work accurately, and backed up by confirmation by the tutor at all times.
Also assessment will be via Q and A and one to one visits, this is then reaffirmed later by comments about their work left by myself in a written form on their blogs.
Feedback Strategies
The whole system of using blogs online allows the work of all students to be viewed by not only the tutor but also by all the students themselves. This allows transparency as to how students are achieving an thus adequate intervention time to allow improvements to happen to the students work.
All the students can leave comments on each others work which can build a team ethic of helping each other to learn (peer to peer). This evidence is written and S.M.A.R.T and also automatically dated and timed.
Consolidation and Evaluation
This takes place after every session where the class recaps and reviews what they have done, identifying key features and resources. This takes the form of written evidence in their blogs, which depending on whether we can access computers directly, if not then the evaluation and consolidation is done in written form when next able to access a computer (either in class or at home). If we are working in the photography studio then this is often not possible until we are back in a classroom (after break) and students have access to their blog websites.
To encourage 'stretch and challenge' the students can undertake homework which should happen each week as they are working on the internet, for those that haven't got the internet they can work at the college library facilities when possible. Students are asked and expected to do homework and extension activities each week either practical or blog work.
