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Bar model training feedback:tell us what the day was like.

This page holds our bar model training feedback form, and the evidence from 122 in-school feedback forms dated 2016–17. The form uses the same four-point scale as the paper sheet from the end of a training day, typed, so it takes four minutes instead of a clipboard.

  • Your name and email are optional — leave them blank and it is anonymous
  • Nothing is published anywhere unless you tick the box that says so
  • It goes straight to our training team, not to a support desk

Why we still ask

What 122 forms from 2016–17 told us.

These figures come from 122 in-school feedback forms, dated 7 December 2016 to 15 November 2017. Most come from a year-long contract with 13 Leicester primary schools. What teachers asked for on the forms shaped what we built next.

  • 122

    in-school feedback forms, dated 2016–17

  • 84%

    rated the day Excellent overall (102 of 122)

  • 96%

    said the day met expectations (44 of 46 who answered)

Three teachers working together over a table of materials during a training session
Teachers working the same problems their classes will get. What you say below decides what the next room like this one gets.

The form

Four minutes, and you can stop halfway.

Only the school is required — it is how we know which day you are talking about. Everything else, including your name, is yours to leave blank.

1 · Which day

2 · How the day scored

The same five dimensions as the paper sheet, so your answers sit alongside the 122 that have already been scored.

Overall quality of the training

Relevance of the contentTo the year groups you actually teach

How the day was structuredPace, order, and the breaks

Visual aids and demonstrationsThe bars, the manipulatives, the modelling

Handout materialTick not applicable if you were not given any

3 · Expectations

Did the day meet the expectations you came in with?

“I will recommend The Bar Model Company training to others.”A recommendation question, rated from 1 to 5

1 — strongly disagree5 — strongly agree

4 · In your own words

One specific thing is more useful than a paragraph of praise — it tells us which bit of the day is doing the work.

This is the question that changes things. Several forms in 2017 asked to see lessons in action, and that is one reason the video library exists.

5 · Who you are, and what we may do with this

All three start unticked and stay that way unless you change them. Untick nothing and your feedback is still counted — it just never leaves the record.

Nothing else happens afterwards. No sequence, no follow-up call.

Thank you — that is logged.

It goes straight to our training team and it gets read, including the awkward bits. If you asked for something the course does not do yet, it joins the list that built the video library.

What the forms changed

Three things that exist becausesomebody wrote them down.

Each of the three below began as something teachers or schools told us.

Teachers asked to see lessons in action.

Asked for on several forms · 2017

What exists now

214 videos of real teaching

140 course lessons, 63 animated explanations and 11 webinars. In 2017 there was no way to give teachers any of it.

Handouts scored lowest.

3.61 out of 4 on handout material, the lowest-scoring area · 2016–17

What exists now

Every lesson ships with its kit

The worksheet, the homework and the answers sit next to the video, so nothing depends on what got photocopied on the day.

Another day out of school is a real cost.

A concern with any training day

What exists now

£399 a year, unlimited staff

The whole-school membership — no INSET day and no supply cover. It is included free for a year with a training day.

The scores on this page come from 122 in-school feedback forms.Dated December 2016 to November 2017.

Thank you.Genuinely.

If something went wrong on the day, saying so here is how we stop it happening to the next school. That is worth more to us than a five.

The free resource pack → What the membership includes →

Filled one in on paper on the day? You do not need to do it twice — but if something has occurred to you since, this is the place to put it.