Transcript Personal tutoring from September 2012

Personal tutoring to support
full and part time campus
based students from
September 2012 onwards
Dr Susan Smith, Centre for Learning and Teaching
Updated November 2014
Leeds Beckett University
This workshop will….
• Introduce you to the new research based personal tutor
framework
• Outline the support available from Services to Students
• Showcase the resources available
• Work through some practical scenarios
• The importance of signposting
What is a personal tutor ?
• a member of academic staff who offers a student academic
and/ or pastoral support throughout the student’s course
What the students want
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Regular, scheduled meetings
A PT who takes an active role throughout their degree
A PT who is accessible, approachable and reliable
A PT who is enthusiastic and cares about them
They want to be “known, ‘tracked’ and supported”
throughout
Why be a personal tutor?
• Making good use of a personal tutor will improve students’
chances of getting the degree they deserve
• (And their level of satisfaction with their experience)
• Staff satisfaction too!
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it’s one of the student entitlements
part of our course development principles
works with the Student Charterpart of Customer Service excellencepart of improving a student’s satisfaction and experience
Key issues for staff about the
framework
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Ring fenced deployment
Part time and full time students treated the same
All academic teaching staff are expected to be personal tutors but….
Staff new to HE- not a personal tutor until they have been here for
one academic cycle
Staff new to University but not to HE -can be personal tutors from
day 1
2 individual meetings per year
First years and new starters to be seen in first four weeks
Monitored through course enhancement and Faculty quality
meetings
Staff initiate the meetings
A Student engagement management system
https://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/staff/student-engagementmanagement-system-sems.htm
• If your personal tutor had this on
their door how would it make you
feel?
DO NOT DISTURB.
THIS MEANS YOU!
The following slides are for
student s at induction
• Course leaders will adapt them (words
indicated in green) for their own course
Your personal tutor …
• Is a key point of contact
• Will invite you to meet them individually, once each semester
in every year of your course
• Will listen, advise and guide you with academic and personal
issues
• Will signpost you to other services if they can’t help
• Will aim to follow you through the entire duration of your
course
• Will speak to your course or module leader or student liaison
officer with your permission, if there are issues of concern
• May write your job references and help provide evidence for
mitigation if you need it
• Will keep any confidential information, with your permission,
stored securely in your student file
What should you, the student, do?
• Know who your tutor is and how to contact them
• Come prepared for meetings with questions and issues
relating to your learning experience, your future career
• Be prepared, during or after your meeting with your personal
tutor, to draft action points to reach agreed objectives
• Let the tutor know if you can’t attend
What might you and your personal
tutor talk about?
• At every level – study skills, career planning, your
learning, preparing for the next level, goal setting, career
aspirations, and review and feedback on your results
• At Level 4- getting used to University, option modules,
Student Hub, professional development,
• At Level 5- preparing for placements/year abroad and
projects/dissertations
• At Level 6- interview and applications, signposting to
Careers staff, postgraduate options
In addition….
• If you are a new first year or a new starter you will be invited
to an individual meeting by the end of the first four weeks
after you begin your studies
• You will be expected to take more responsibility for arranging
your meetings as you move through your course/insert the
name of your course
• You can ask to change your personal tutor in exceptional
circumstances
• You should let your tutor know if you can’t attend a meeting
Here is a link to the resources
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• Use the Leeds Beckett Staff website A-Z Service Finder –
simply click P and choose Personal Tutoring from the list.
Services for Students
Services for Students
A central university department which provides
a range of professional and expert, information,
welfare and advisory services to support student
wellbeing and development through its own
offices, by electronic delivery and in partnership
with university Faculties.
Services for Students
The Teams: via the Hub from September 2012
Services for International students
Disability, Dyslexia and Assessment Centre
Student Employability and Progression Centre
Student Wellbeing Centre (formerly Counselling
and Chaplaincy)
Student Money and Advice Centre
What now?
• Access the resources
• Read the framework and the level ideas
• Make individual appointments for new students within 4
weeks of them starting at the University
• Think about your door notice!
• If you are a course leader, adapt the slides, talk and link up
students to personal tutors at induction
• Run a session in your course team and look at the case studies
on the Personal Tutoring resources page
• Think about setting up a parallel buddy system for your
students
• There will be an amended framework for distance learners
and post graduate students next year
Activities and questions….