Assessment for Learning
- A 2-day opportunity to practise and hone your skills
- Clarify your strengths as a facilitator
- Find out how your skill level compares with that of others after
10 days of training in Clean Language, Symbolic Modelling and Clean Space - Get written and verbal feedback to further your learning
- Work towards the Apricot Island Certificate of Competencies in Clean Language
Assessment...
Why get your Clean skills assessed? Not everyone feels the need for it, yet most of us who are navigating a new process welcome an opportunity at some point to take stock, to find out how far we've come and where we want to head for next. Some aspects of David Grove's Clean processes are easier to learn and use than others; assessment with fair and clear feedback can help us get clear on what we're doing that's effective and what needs more attention.
We think the best way to assess behavioural skills is to watch them in action, so that's what we do. During the event, you take part in various exercises designed to give you a chance to use your Clean skills with an assessor observing your work and taking notes. The exercises range from simple facilitation of another participant to small or even whole group processes.
For an assessment to be fair, it must be made according to some agreed criteria. Penny Tompkins and James Lawley - with input from Wendy Sullivan, Phil Swallow and others - have developed a set of 'first level' criteria for those facilitators who have 10 days training using Clean Language, Clean Space and Symbolic Modelling. These criteria are synchronised with those used on the Clean Change Company Certification Masterclass so that the assessments are broadly equivalent.
We want to emphasise that we see the 10 days training as a minimum. We have found that people get far more out of the assessment event if they have also had plenty of practice using in addition to their training, so that their skills are 'current'.
Those who achieve the required standard according to the written criteria and the assessors' mutually-agreed assessment will get the Certificate of Competencies in Clean Language. Those who are not yet at that standard will be offered specific suggestions towards gaining the certificate at a later date. Suggestions may include getting coaching on a specific skill-set, for example.
...for Learning
While assessment is a useful thing in its own right, it becomes a valuable resource for learning when combined with good quality feedback, which we aim to give you on this event. When someone experienced watches you working, then reports back to you what you are doing, you gain a 'meta' perspective which enables you to consider what you are doing in a new light.
During this event you will receive verbal and written feedback (in note form) on your observed work. This will come from the assessment team of Phil Swallow and Marian Way. Together and individually, we'll be giving close attention to which of your Clean skills have blossomed and which are ripe for further development - and we'll do our best to give honest, fair feedback about what we notice. You may also get pointers towards other ways of facilitating where appropriate.
So in summary, the emphasis during the Assessment for Learning event is on practice, feedback and assessment, through a mixture of:
- live-in-the-moment feedback
- small group feedback
- whole group discussion
- video (volunteers only)
- written feedback in note form during the event
- a Certificate of Competencies with accompanying record sheet of which skills we did and didn't see you demonstrate during the course
"Prior to the 2-day assessment, Marian & Phil explained that the assessment was an an assessment for learning. However, I have been through a variety of training courses that have promoted this same ethos and at the end of the day I still felt enormous pressure to just get through the assessment and pass. Yet Marian & Phil have managed to successfully achieve what they set out to achieve and that is that I felt utterly supported during the 2-days, in which I was able to practice and hone my skills with the assistance of the written and verbal feedback following each session.
Unmistakably, the assessment was intensive and hard work, not only for the participants, but for Marian & Phil, whose planning was impeccable which created an environment that was calm and conducive to learning at my best. I want to thank both of them for the opportunity to be part of something amazing and introducing me to this wonder. I thoroughly enjoyed the course and the assessment just felt like it was another part of it, rather like a journey that never ends..."
Sarah-Jane Whitehouse-Line, Coach
What happens during the 2-day Assessment?
You will engage in exercises designed to help you show your skills, working in small groups of between 2 and 4, while the assessors watch you work.
What's in it for you?
- Focused practice time
- Feedback from experienced Clean practitioners
- Opportunity to 'go deeper' with Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling
- An external assessment of your skills, in the light of an agreed list of skills
- A Certificate of Competencies for those who demonstrate sufficient of the core skills
- A snapshot of where you are now
- Develop a sense of direction: Where next?
The Assessors will be Phil Swallow and Marian Way, international trainers and facilitators of Clean processes. Phil has been working as a CL/SyM assessor/supervisor in the UK and France for the past three years.
To join us, you must have attended Less is More, More to Explore, Pattern Spotting and Clean Space - or equivalent courses run by other training companies - contact us to discuss your eligibility.
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A place on this Assessment for Learning costs £315.00
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