Mark Carne

 Would you like less marking?  Would you like to spend your day with enthusiastic learners?  Would you like to improve your success rates?  Would you like access to proven and effective teaching materials produced by experts?  Would you like to stretch your learners and see them perform at their best?

 Help learners complete work on time, to the standard required and reduce the amount of re-marking needed  Make lessons more fun for learners and lecturers  Increase success rates  Increase students’ self-confidence, determination to succeed and appreciation of their subject

 Talk to your colleagues, look at their assignments and their worksheets  Look critically at your lesson plans and teaching material: does every single session move the learner closer to achieving their goals?  Use the VLE more: set up more quizzes and tests. Learners love scoring top marks in tests.

 Monitor your industries’ websites and newspapers – working with cutting edge ideas will inspire your learners  Review your assignments and your classroom activities: are you providing the support weaker learners need to achieve AND challenging the more able learners to excel?

 Every activity should take the students closer to achieving their learning goal (if it doesn’t, why are you doing it?)  If students don’t learn the way you teach, maybe, you have to teach the way they learn  Inappropriate materials alienate students. Lessons must be challenging.  Every lesson should have clear aims. If students don’t know where they are going, it is no surprise if they don’t get there.

 Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. -- Samuel Johnson