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The Personal Tutor's Guide to Supporting Student-Parents in Higher Education
Developed by Andrea Todd of the University of Chester, this guide offers a research-informed, evidence-based guide to help personal tutors provide effective support to their personal tutees who are parents and have parenting responsibilities whilst they are studying.
UKAT Advising Journey Game
The UKAT Advising Journey Game is a card-based design tool which helps users explore the creation of a structured, purposeful programme of personal tutoring interventions by considering students, their aspirations, and the experiences they have throughout their student journey. The output of the game is a skeleton personal tutoring programme tailored to the needs of students.
Academic Advising and Tutoring for Student Success in Higher Education: International Perspectives
This UKAT-edited Special Edition of the Frontiers in Education Journal, Leadership in Higher Education section considers the impact of high-quality advising and tutoring practices and is intent on advancing evidence that advising and tutoring is fundamental to helping universities achieve their strategic ambitions for student success. The aim of this collection of articles is to stimulate discussion in this field whilst addressing some of the most pressing gaps in the current literature, promoting further international research and connecting several disparate HE policymaking agendas.
Download the e-Book [PDF, 5 Mb]
Fostering a positive discipline identity to build student learners, not consumers, and improve attainment for all
This UKAT Equity & Inclusion Special Interest Group case study, authored by Louise Taylor of Oxford Brookes University, describes an activity personal tutors can lead with their students during a one-hour personal tutoring session. The activity was developed from research demonstrating that creating a sense of identity as a student within a particular discipline can support engagement with the educational process and, thus, academic outcomes.
Closing the awarding gap: The role of the Personal Learning Advisor (PLA) service at the Open University (OU)
This UKAT Equity & Inclusion Special Interest Group case study, authored by Eleanor St-Hilaire, Jenny Hillman, and Dave Lochtie of the Open University, details how a centralised, primary role advising service can provide specialist 1-1 and group coaching and mentoring to students identified in the Access and Participation Plan to address institutional awarding gaps. The lessons learned are transferable to the sector in terms of not only the direct benefits of the service (students who engaged in the service completed and passed modules at a higher rate than those who did not engage) but also the insights from students about the challenges they faced with their studies, having provided them with a ‘safe space’ where they could talk about them.
Top 10 Tips for Student Engagement
The UKAT Student Engagement Special Interest Group have put together a guide containing their Top 10 Tips for promoting student engagement with personal tutoring and academic advising. This guide offers suggestions for ways to make students more inclined to engage with the support that your institution provides through personal tutoring and academic advising.
Top 10 Tips for Advancing Equity
The UKAT Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity Special Interest Group have put together this set of Top 10 Tips for advancing equity and inclusion through personal tutoring and academic advising.
Top 10 Tips for Applying for UKAT Professional Recognition
The UKAT Professional Recognition team have put together a guide containing their Top 10 Tips for making a successful application for UKAT Professional Recognition. This guide offers suggestions for ways to overcome some of the common issues which the team see when assessing applications.
Top 10 Tips for Personal Tutoring at a Distance
This double-sided A5 flyer provides 10 handy tips for effective practice in supporting students at a distance using technology during times of remote learning and social distancing. This guide is freely available to reproduce and distribute on your campus.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Top 10 Tips for Effective Tutoring
This A4 flyer provides 10 handy tips for effective practice in supporting students through personal tutoring. This guide is freely available to reproduce and distribute on your campus.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Top 10 Tips for Digital Inclusion in Personal Tutoring
This A4 flyer provides 10 handy tips for making online personal tutoring more inclusive and accessible to students. This guide is freely available to reproduce and distribute on your campus.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Top 10 Tips for Supporting International Students
This A4 flyer provides 10 handy tips for effectively supporting international students through personal tutoring. This guide is freely available to reproduce and distribute on your campus.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Top 10 Tips for Researching Personal Tutoring
This A4 flyer provides 10 handy tips for undertaking research in personal tutoring and academic advising. This guide is freely available to reproduce and distribute on your campus.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Using the VLE to support a flipped tutoring approach
All universities have a virtual learning environment (VLE). This 20 minute video from the UKAT Technology in Advising Special Interest Group demonstrates how you can use the VLE to effectively support your students during a time of remote learning, and to embody a flipped approach to personal tutoring.
The power of storytelling: Creative ideas for personal tutoring in the new normal
Purposeful personal tutoring is a proactive, intentionally structured process which focuses on student growth and development. This event, co-hosted by PebblePad and UKAT, explored the benefits of supporting and encouraging students to tell their story effectively and demonstrate how flipped approaches to personal tutoring, supported by eportfolio, can make a significant difference to both student and institutional outcomes.
UKAT Core Values of Personal Tutoring and Academic Advising
The UKAT Core Values of Personal Tutoring and Academic Advising guide articulates what UKAT believes are the fundamental values that underpin an effective personal tutoring or academic advising process. It also identifies the core personal values that effective personal tutors and academic advisors demonstrate in supporting their students.
Download the guide and use it to inform the development of your institutions personal tutoring/academic advising provision, and the training of tutors and advisors. This guidance is designed to be read in conjunction with the UKAT Professional Framework for Advising and Tutoring.
NACADA Resources
NACADA have a wide range of freely available resources designed to support academic advisors and academic advising practices, many of which are relevant to the UK. These include journals such as the NACADA Journal and NACADA Review, the NACADA Clearinghouse resource archive, webinars, books and much more. If you're looking for information on academic advising/personal tutoring, the NACADA website is a great place to start.
Global Partnership Supporting Students
In this panel discussion recorded for the UKAT co-sponsored NACADA Global Advising Week 2020, NACADA Executive Director Charlie Nutt, UKAT CEO David Grey and outgoing LVSA Board Chair Oscar van den Wijngaard, discuss the importance of global partnerships for supporting students.
Eight Steps to Identifying, Supporting and Celebrating Student-Parents
Associate Professor Andy Todd, from the University of Chester, has produced a practical, research-informed, eight-step guide to identifying, supporting and celebrating students who are parents. One of the eight steps specifically focuses on personal tutors and the other steps are pertinent to all who teach and support students.
NSF Aspire Alliance Guide to Academic Advising for Personal Tutors in STEM Disciplines
The vision of the National Science Foundation-funded Aspire Alliance is to increase the learning, persistence, and completion of students from underrepresented groups (URG) in colleges and universities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Academic staff are a key leverage point in the success of URG undergraduate students. When URG students are taught by URG faculty, they achieve at significantly higher rates. Research also reveals that inclusive teaching, mentoring and advising/personal tutoring leads to enhanced performance, self-efficacy, and STEM identity, which foster persistence. In addition, while academic advising in higher education has been professionalized and its importance in student success recognized, faculty advising has not experienced the advancement in scholarship, theory and practice that is needed.
Adventures in Advising
Colum Cronin and Matt Markin, our good friends from NACADA, run a regular podcast on all matters related to academic advising.
Check out the Adventures in Advising podcast website for more details, and find the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
Engaging commuter students during and after COVID-19
UKAT Fellow Prof Liz Thomas and colleagues at Edge Hill University have produced a useful guide of 12 tips for engaging with commuter students. This is particularly important at this time as more students are likely to commute when the 2020/21 academic year commences as a result of ongoing social distancing and campus access restrictions.
Tutoring Students Online Using Technology
An online space for sharing resources and guidance on online tutoring, and for colleagues to discuss issues and share examples of practice. The content of this space will be added to and enhanced over the next few weeks and collates and shares relevant resources and events that have been made publicly available within the UK and US. The space currently contains some guidance on holding remote tutorials meetings, checklists for working from home, freely available video conferencing tools, using video conferencing to support online tutoring, and links to webinars on using Microsoft Teams and Blackboard Collaborate for online tutoring.
This space is freely available for anyone to make use of and is not just limited to UKAT members. To access it, click the button below or visit https://bit.ly/online-tutoring. Follow the instructions to sign up with your email address and your choice of password. If you already have an account for the UKAT Learning system (e.g. because you are participating in the pilot of the UKAT Professional Recognition scheme), you do NOT need to create a new account and can login with your existing username and password.
Creating a Flipped Advising Approach
This article by the Coordinator of UKAT's Technology in Advising Special Interest Group argues that the adoption of a flipped advising approach has become critical as we react and embrace new ways to advise our students during the COVID-19 pandemic. It provides a framework for conceptualizing a flipped advising approach and the five video case studies provide concrete examples of what a flipped advising approach entails.
VIDEOS:
Flipping Advising: An Introduction
Orientation and Flipped Advising (University of Hawai'i)
Flipped Advising as a Student Portal (University of Alabama)
Encouraging Student Reflection on Their Personal, Academic, and Career Goals through Flipped Advising: (University of Florida)
Flipped Advising: Faculty Advising for Graduate Students (Portland State University)
Action on Access
Action on Access is a UKAT partner organisation, and a national provider of coordination and support for furthering access, widening participation and increasing student retention, success and progression through higher education. Action on Access work with institutional leaders, managers and practitioners, policy makers, funders, stakeholder groups and third sector organisations to promote inclusivity and diversity, challenge exclusion, and lobby for the widest broadest possible access to higher education.
The Action on Access monthly e-bulletin is an essential first stop for you to stay current and involved in all the latest Widening Participation and access initiatives, news, events, resources, information, and networking
Preparing for Professional Recognition
If you are considering applying for UKAT Professional Recognition, this video recorded by one of our most experienced assessors will explain the UKAT Professional Framework, walk you through the application process, show you what an application looks like and help you work out which level of recognition is right for you.
CREATES Toolkits
The ERASMUS+ funded CREATES project created these four toolkits for staff who are interested in clear ideas about and concrete examples of co-creative learning and advising practices. Meant to inspire educators towards more active, engaged pedagogies that foster the CREATES key competences, they provide reflections but also concrete strategies, tools, approaches, tips and other resources that can be used to implement the CREATES approach.
The four toolkits include toolkits for Faculty Advising (personal tutoring), Peer Advising and Self-Advising.
Northumbria University When to Refer Guide
This is an excellent guide produced by the Student Life and Wellbeing Team at Northumbria University. It offers clear, issues-based guidance to academic staff on when and how to refer and would be a really useful resource for personal tutors. If you're looking to produce a How to Refer guide for your own institution, this is a great source of inspiration and well worth a read.
NACADA Global Glossary of Advising Terminology
NACADA's Global Initiatives Committee has updated it's Global Glossary of Terms relating to academic advising. Because the language of higher education varies by country, The Glossary of Terms has been established as a living document to help the global advising community navigate those variances and reach a shared understanding of how we structure and define our institutions, education and advising. It is really useful in helping to understand the context underpinning scholarly publications about advising from other nations. UKAT members contributed the UK-specific content to this Global Glossary of Terms.