Samples of work
JUST A TASTER
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
NATIONAL TEACHING AND LEARNING CHANGE PROGRAMME
STANDARDS UNIT | QUALITY IMPROVEMENT AGENCY | LEARNING AND SKILLS IMPROVEMENT SERVICE
Media Producer | Video Editor | 2nd Camera
The objective of the programme was to improve teaching and learning in the ‘learning and skills sector’ through the creation of a series of multimedia resources, covering a range of subjects.
Throughout the phases of the programme I worked on various subjects and helped produce the following online and multimedia resources.
- Improving teaching and learning in science
- Looking at learning in science
- Improving learning in mathematics
- Improving teaching and learning in engineering
- Learning mathematics in context
Discussing endothermic
and exothermic reactions
Thinking about capacitors
Misconceptions in mathematics
The importance of discussion
in mathematics
The role of discussion in science
Engineering students discussing the importance of mathematics
MATHS4LIFE
NATIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE
Media Producer | Director | Video Editor | 2nd Camera
The purpose of Maths4Life has been to ‘stimulate a positive approach to the teaching and learning of mathematics in the Skills for Life (SfL) sector’. Part of this work was the development of the teacher resource, ‘Thinking Through Mathematics’, which I helped produce. This also included the filming and editing of the DVD that features in the tool kit.
Teacher intervention
BOWLAND MATHS
BOWLAND MATHS
Video Editor | 2nd Camera
Bowland Maths is involved in producing a series of problem solving activities designed for teachers to use with learners aged 11-14. The aim is to help learners develop the mathematical skills needed for everyday life. The activities are accompanied by Professional Development modules that support teachers and trainers. Each module includes a series of videos featuring teachers and learners using the Bowland Maths activities.
I worked on two to these modules: ‘Assessing key processes’ and ‘Involving pupils in self and peer assessment’.
Assessing problem-solving
and mathematical reasoning
Involving pupils in self and peer assessment
MATHS PIPELINE PROJECT
EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOUNDATION
Video Editor | 2nd Camera | Director
The Maths Pipeline project was been set up to improve outcomes for learners studying Mathematics for GCSE level and Functional Skills. Part of this work included a series of videos covering GCSE and vocational Maths that would be used by teachers as part of a CPD course.
Building on learners’ understanding
of algebra
Level 1 learners on a plumbing course applying mathematical skills
ADVANCED MATHEMATICS SUPPORT PROGRAMME
MATHEMATICS IN EDUCATION AND INDUSTRY
Video Editor | 2nd Camera | Voice Over
The Advanced Mathematics Support Programme (AMSP) superseded the Further Mathematics Support Programme (FMSP). Its main aims have been to:
- increase participation in AS/A level Mathematics and Further Mathematics,
- support schools and colleges in providing high quality maths teaching,
- increase demand from students to study AS/A level Mathematics and Further Mathematics,
- support improvements in level 3 Mathematics.
For both programmes, I worked in the production of over 100 videos that supported both CPD and online learning.
Exploring kinematic graphs
Population and sampling
DEVELOPING AND PROMOTING
PROVIDER SERVICES
SUPPORTING BUSINESS INNOVATION
LEARNING AND SKILLS IMPROVEMENT SERVICE
Video Editor | 2nd Camera
Supporting Business Innovation is part of the ‘World Class Skills Programme’ and is designed to support providers in helping businesses innovate. It draws on the work of five FE sector networks involved in developing different approaches to supporting innovation through effective knowledge and technology transfer. Each network is made up of teaching and learning sector providers from across the country.
Defining the service
Developing expertise
WORLD SKILLS
INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING
Video Editor | Camera
WorldSkills is a “global Hub” which showcases “the value of skills and raising the recognition of skilled professionals worldwide”. A key focus in WorldSkills is an international competition that brings together young skilled talent people from around the globe. The competition covers a wide variety of skills including Hair and Beauty, Plumbing, Bricklaying and Computer Aided Design.
I was involved in producing a series of videos to promote WorldSkills and its ethos to other providers across the country.
What’s in it for the learners?
Askham Bryan College
Embedding skills competitions throughout
an organisation
LISTENING TO LEARNERS?
CITIZENSHIP AND THE LEARNER VOICE
LEARNING AND SKILLS IMPROVEMENT SERVICE
Video Editor
In 2006 a White Paper was published, called Further Education: Raising skills, improving life chances, with the aim that all providers of further education should develop a strategy to involve learners as part of personalisation of learning and as a way of raising quality of provision. The resource ‘Listening to Learners?: Citizenship and the learner voice’ forms part of this work.
A whole college approach
to developing a ‘learner voice’ strategy
FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT IN
SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS
NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY
Video Editor
FaSMEd was a three year project led by Newcastle University. Its main aim, to improve mathematics and science skills in Europe and South Africa.
Working with partners across eight countries, the focus has been on the use of technology in formative assessment to help raise achievement.
A maths department approach
to formative assessment
MY FUTURE STARTS HERE
MY FUTURE STARTS HERE
Producer | Director | Camera | Video Editor
My Future Starts Here is an information, advice and careers guidance service. They are a team of specialist advisers based in Hastings, East Sussex, working with young people, adults and organisations. Part of their service is organising career events.
A careers event at Sussex Coast College, Hastings
STUDENT SERVICES
WEST THAMES COLLEGE
Video Editor | 2nd Camera
To support their student provision, West Thames College decided to produce a series of ten videos for the college intranet that introduced various aspects of their student services.
Introducing student services at
West Thames College
LIFELONG LEARNING
AN EXPERIMENT USING
PHILISOPHICAL INQUIRY
TURNER CONTEMPORARY
Video Editor | 2nd Camera
In February 2013 there was an exhibition featuring work by the artists Rosa Barba, Carl Andre and JMW Turner.
Prior to the exhibition, visitors to the centre had been invited to examine and critique three of the exhibits.
- Rosa Barba – Boundaries of consumption
- Carl Andre – 4×25 Altstadt Rectangle
- JMW Turner – Spheres at Different Distances from the Eye
The discussion among the visitors was part of an experiment using Philosophical Inquiry.
Exploring and discussing three exhibits
PLANE CLOTHED DETECTIVE
CHEESE AND CRACKERS
Video Editor
Aviation archaeology has developed a bad reputation over the years because a small number of souvenir hunters have plundered WWII crash sites across the UK for any memento they can lay their hands on, either to keep as part of a private collection or to sell on.
Plane Clothed Detective sets out to gain a better understanding of aviation archaeology through the eyes of historian Bob Collis, who investigates crash sites across Norfolk and Suffolk.
The documentary was regularly shown on Discovery Wings.