During these challenging times it is important to be there for our students and remember the wider support networks across the University that can help you support your students. The following provides guidance for Personal Tutors around referring students to wider University support and also guidance for those Tutors who have more immediate concerns around the mental health and wellbeing of their students….
Tutoring Matters is UKAT’s series of professional webinars presented by UKAT members and experts in the fields of academic advising and personal tutoring. They are a great resource for helping further your own professional learning and practice around Personal Tutoring…
UKAT is holding a webinar on Tutoring Online which we are sure will be useful to everyone in our shift to online education. This session will explore the OU model of tutoring and offer ideas and guidance based on their collective experience to those who find themselves in the position of tutoring online in the current climate.
UKAT has established a space on the UKAT Learning system to share resources and guidance on online tutoring, and for colleagues to discuss issues and share examples of practice in online tutoring. The content of this space will be added to and enhanced over the next few weeks and will be used to collate and share relevant resources and events that have been made publicly available within the UK and US…
Do you have an idea for researching an aspect of your teaching practice but you are unsure how to develop it into an actionable project? Are you new to pedagogic research and want to gain a better understanding of the available frameworks and methodologies? Perhaps you are interested in developing a new pedagogic research programme and are looking for ways of developing a wider, inter-disciplinary, focus? Whatever your focus, as educators we need to understand what approaches and strategies enhance student learning and engagement, and to be able to effectively assess the impact of our teaching and learning strategies….
A reminder that booking for the Learning and Teaching Conference: Enhancing Student Success for Education 4.0, closes on Tuesday 3rd March 2020 at 5pm.
The Conference will take place on Thursday 5th March 2020
At the Learning and Teaching conference on Thursday 5th March 2020, Dr Sam Elkington (Principal Lecturer – Learning & Teaching, Academic Registry) will be presenting a session on Partnership Success Stories: Students as Researchers. The Students as Researchers Scheme (SARS) provides opportunities for undergraduate and postgraduate students to work as paid research assistants on a variety of discipline and pedagogic research projects across Schools and Departments. In this student-led session, we hear, first-hand, about the personal experiences of past and current Student Researchers
There has been much focus on Personal Tutoring over the last two years. The University’s Personal Tutoring Code of Practice, providing a consistent approach across the University, was implemented in September 2018 and this academic year has seen the launch of StREAM – the learner analytics platform pulling together individual student data reflecting their level of engagement. We have been fortunate to secure two speakers at the forthcoming LTE Conference (taking place on Thursday 5th March) who will be presenting around these areas.
At the Learning and Teaching conference on Thursday 5th March 2020, Dr Anne Llewellyn will be presenting a session on Enhancing Student Health and Wellbeing in the curriculum.This session will discuss the value of embedding resources in the curriculum to help to prevent some of the significant impact of social and academic transitions into higher education. Resources such as the AMOSSHE Resilience toolkit will be explored within a holistic model of student wellbeing which integrates personal identity into a constructivist paradigm of knowledge gain and skills development. Thursday 5th March is also University Mental Health Day and running alongside this year’s conference are two workshops.
Booking is now open for the next LTE Conference, taking place on Thursday 5th March. The keynote speaker will be Johnny Rich, Chief Executive of the Engineering Professors’ Council and renowned HE policy commentator, who will be talking about ‘What is success?’
