Workshop Syllabus
W218 Short Course in Personal Tutoring
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Overview
This workshop will be open for registration soon.
Institutions interested in having this workshop delivered to a staff cohort should contact curriculum@ukat.ac.uk for more information.
Individual registration will open soon. To express an interest in registering on the course, please contact curriculum@ukat.ac.uk
This short course provides structured development for those involved directly or indirectly in personal tutoring. It will provide participants with a theoretical and a practical understanding of key principles, issues, and debates relating to personal tutoring. It combines an examination of research and literature with an exploration of practice drawn from the participants’ current experience.
This short course addresses the issues explored through the lens of compassionate and relational pedagogies, and the related concepts of academic kindness and the emotional implications of learning and teaching. It therefore offers participants opportunities to reflect on these approaches and their own personal and professional values in the context of personal tutoring.
Successful completion of the course will result in participants being awarded professional recognition at the Recognised Affiliate Advisor (RAA) level, and will allow access to a streamlined professional recognition application process (Recognised Practitioner in Advising; RPA).
What will you learn from engaging in this activity?
- Critically discuss the purpose, functions, and value of student support and personal tutoring systems in higher education, and the relation to student learning.
- Critically appraise compassionate pedagogies, in the context of effective approaches to inclusive support and tutoring that engender student belonging.
- Reflect on the role of student support and personal tutoring within your own professional settings, with reference to your personal and professional values.
What key concepts will you understand as a result of engaging in this activity?
The role of the Personal Tutor is pivotal to student success
The skills needed to be a good Personal Tutor can be developed
What essential questions will this activity address?
- What is Personal Tutoring?
- What skills do Personal Tutors need?
- What values underpin Personal Tutoring?
- What will you do differently as a Personal Tutor?
Framework Competencies Addressed
Conceptual:
C1 Core values of academic advising and tutoring
C2 Theory relevant to academic advising and tutoring
C3 Academic advising and tutoring approaches and strategies
C4 Expected outcomes of academic advising and tutoring
C5 How equitable and inclusive environments are created and maintained
Informational:
I1 HE Provider mission, vision, values, and culture
I2 Curriculum, degree programmes and pathways, including options
I3 HE Provider policies, procedures, rules, and regulations
I4 Legal guidelines and tutoring practice, including privacy regulations and confidentiality
I5 The characteristics, needs, and experiences of major and emerging student populations
I6 Campus and community resources that support student success
I7 Data and information technology applicable to tutoring
Relational:
R1 Build advising and tutoring relationships through empathetic listening and compassion for students, and be accessible in ways that challenge, support, nurture, and teach
R2 Communicate in an inclusive and respectful manner
R3 Motivate, encourage and support students to recognise their potential, meet challenges, and respect individuality
R4 Plan and conduct successful advising and tutoring interactions
R5 Promote student understanding of the logic and purpose of the curriculum
R6 Facilitate problem solving, decision-making, meaning-making, planning, and goal setting
R7 Collaborate effectively with campus and services to provide support to students
Professional:
P1 Create and support environments that consider the needs and perspectives of students and respect individual learners
P2 Appreciate students’ views and cultures, maintain a student-centred approach and mindset, and treat students with sensitivity and fairness
P3 Commit to students, colleagues, and their institutions through engagement in continuing professional development, scholarly enquiry, and the evaluation of professional practices
P4 Understand the implications of quality assurance and quality enhancement, and engage in ongoing evaluation and development of advising and tutoring practice