Session Outline

This session aims to do the following:

- Use the lens of compassionate teaching to understand how it is possible for a subject tutor to create an environment of safety , engagement and trust between students and themselves whereby both the teacher and student feel free to engage as themselves

- Use the above to show how the ‘personal tutor-tutee’ relationship can be multiplied by a large factor through educating students on a subject but communicating with them using a PERSONAL tutoring approach…... and hence impact that students may feel since the tutor has the advantage of seeing the students week in and week out during the term, which a personal tutor often does not

- Clear examples will be given of how and when this can happen, and the small mind shift needed to allow the tutor to be open to doing so

- Illustrate to any Pracademics in the audience how ‘we’ are particularly well placed to show a level of vulnerability which then allows us to access our compassionate delivery of teaching.