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Award winning teachers make their mark at SRC Bede Sixth Form

Teachers at SRC Bede Sixth Form in Billingham are leading the way when it comes to improving students’ learning through the use of technology.

Karl Johnson, Patrick Jordan and Matt Fodor brought home a regional award after piloting new styles of video marking.

The innovative techniques enable teachers to talk the student through the marking process via a video link that they can watch back as many times as they feel is necessary.

Music teacher and section head, Patrick Jordan added: “The speed with which you can do this, allowing for internet speeds which are only going to get quicker, makes marking much quicker and easier.”

Sports lecturer Karl said: “I was interested in trying something different for my students and finding something that really works.”

For media and film studies lecturer Matt Fodor video marking helped simplify what has traditionally been a difficult subject to summarise with written feedback.

He said: “Because I am marking students’ films I would first have to explain the scene to which I was referring and then give feedback, with video marking I can simply say it over the scene.”

The three teachers were nominated for the JISC RSC Northern e-Learning Award by the college’s Learning Resources Development Manager, Paula Kilburn.

She said the teachers had embraced the new technology which has also been welcomed by students and sparked interest across the college.

The SRC Bede Sixth Form teachers were announced winners of the e-Learning Award and representatives of the College attended an awards ceremony at the JISC RSC Northern e-Fest – an annual event which enables learning providers to get together to share ideas and good practice.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Marie Turbill .