Subject Workshop for Teachers of Deaf Children - English Language
Presented in October 2005
Course Evaluation Summary
Name of Course/Event: SSC Course 4: Subject Workshop for Teachers of Deaf
Children - English Language: Tuesday, 4th October, 2005
Number of Participants: 16 Number of Respondents: 16
Overall Assessment:
How would you rate the following: EXCELLENT = 1 POOR = 5
Enhancement to your expertise 1.44
Content and supplementary material 1.19
How will you use what you have learned today?
- Pass on to colleagues/service in general terms and some specifics of materials.
- Would be willing to be part of a working group if asked. Could contribute something if you are composing an informal anthology of deaf people.
- Putting as much as possible into practice.
- Read materials and discuss with other members of staff; use materials and adapt for pupils I teach.
- Use materials and hopefully maintain contacts and development.
- Practical information, which I will put to use when I get back to school.
- ound something of use from each presenter - all very practical and useful.
- Inform my teaching and planning for the future.
- Not only use the resources practically but also contacts with other teachers.
- Ideas for resources to supplement my existing schemes of work.
- Own background reading/learning. Adapt materials for own class use where possible.
- Good info about resources.
- Contacts of other teachers for more information. New resources to try. Examples of good practice.
How would you rate the following: EXCELLENT = 1 POOR = 5
Clarity of presentation 1.25
Pacing of course/event 1.13
What was best about the course/event?
- Interaction with teachers working in the same type of work as me. Gave ideas for possible future development of interaction, eg, visiting Deaf Studies Dept at Donaldson’s, shadowing similar teachers.
- Enjoyed all presentations, felt were all relevant and interesting.
- Opportunity to learn about practice across various LEAs and opportunities to meet others with similar interests, particularly in relation to deafness and dyslexia.
- Sharing ideas.
- Being able to access resources and differentiated materials for classroom use.
- Sharing of knowledge and resources.
- The fact that practitioners delivered.
- Every aspect of the day was of great interest and has really filled me with encouragement.
- Freedom to not only utilise the presenters’ resources/expertise but encouragement to network with other teachers on the course.
- All presentations were equally relevant and useful.
- My preference was sharing coursework and hearing about resources. Finding out what others do/realising it’s not just me/our school!
- Info about resources.
- Sharing of resources. Real practitioners talking about what works for them.
- Meeting other colleagues for ideas swapping.
What, if anything, could have been improved about the course?
- I had hoped for more at Primary level but several presentations related to Primary as well as Secondary.
- More time to discuss with other course members informally materials and methods they use in their own schools/services.
- Fine, how about a similar thing for different subjects, eg, maths, social subjects, etc.
- Everything very satisfactory. Thank you!
- Nothing.
- Longer!
- One difficulty was reading slides in last morning presentation on literacy – even on sheet. I find some of them tricky.
- More focus on working in mainstream setting.
- Maybe a list of resources, websites, council address, etc, for contacting.
Any other comments regarding the course?
- Thank you, Mary. Well done!
- I would be very grateful for some of the material to be sent on by email.
- Hope that it leads to future developments/working party?
- Any future courses like this would be beneficial.
- Excellent idea about working party and sharing of resources. It would be good to have resources on a website!
- Would like to be involved with the networking in the future, although not sure if I would manage this year.
- All presenters, although very different, with different expertise/experiences, offered quality resources/experiences/teaching/expanding knowledge/ querying boundaries . . . etc.
- Very helpful and encouraging.
Location and Venue
Convenient location for this course: No Response 6 Yes 10 No 0
EXCELLENT = 1 POOR = 5
Convenience of venue 1.33
Quality of venue 1.21
Likely to attend if venue was used again: No Response 3 Likely 13 Less Likely 0
What other CPD training would you like the SSC to provide?
- More workshops sharing expertise in various subjects.
- Raising the self-esteem of hearing impaired pupils.
- Unsure, it would be good to find out what has been covered in the past and if these ideas/issues will be covered again.
- More of the same quality and diversity.
- I would be interested in joining a working party.
- Would really have appreciated the workshop on reading that had to be cancelled.
- Any work on improving teaching English for deaf pupils!
- Same again for other curricular areas. Teaching profoundly deaf pupils to read.
- Extra signing instruction.
Outcomes Assessment
If you are a teacher, how would you rate this course in relation to the
following "Chartered Teacher Standard" components:
VERY USEFUL = 1 NOT USEFUL = 5
your professional values and personal commitment 1.46
your professional knowledge and understanding 1.54
your professional and personal attributes 1.69