Enhancing the First Year Experience through Personal Tutoring

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Enhancing the First Year Experience through
Personal Tutoring

• Dr Heather Hartwell and Crispin Farbrother
• Bournemouth University
• 16th May 2006

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Introduction

• How we got here
• Stepping stones pre-induction
• Personal Tutoring
• PAL Peer Assisted Learning
• Case Study Activity
• Reflection

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Previous Research

• 3 models pastoral, professional,
• curriculum
• Earwaker J., 1992, Helping and supporting
  students, Buckingham, Society for Research into
  Higher Education and Open University Press
• Need for security progress report
• Psychological stroking
• Hartwell, H. and Farbrother, C. 2004, Enhancing
  the Learning Environment for Hospitality
  Students, The Learning and Teaching Conference,
  ILTHE.

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Stepping Stones

• http//sim/steps/index.html

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Justification for personal tutors

• Personal contact before a crisis
• Fostering a sense of belonging
• Establishment of a friendship group
• Easing transition to HE
• Small scale discussion forum
• Able to feed back directly to staff
• Head on approach to communicate issues and goal
  setting

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Justification for personal tutors

• Support student self-management
• Support for skills gap from formative feedback
  opportunities
• Cheaper to retain than recruit

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Sessions

• Cultural/administration
• Personal
• Academic
• Employment/SCR
• Career/placement
• Based on PDP web site - http//pdp.bournemouth.ac.
  uk

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School of Services Management

• Hospitality Programmes
• Personal Tutor Session One
• Cultural/administration

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Flying Start survival guide

• Myth 1 You have to like everyone you meet
• Myth 2 You have to drink a lot
• Myth 3 You have to watch Countdown

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Study Methods

• School merry-go-round of daily tests and
  deadlines
• University lectures, seminars, tutorials and
  you might not have to hand work in for months
• Libraries are not where you want to be at 5am on
  last week of term

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Way Ahead

• Get to know your library
• Get to know your School
• Get to know where your first lecture is

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PAL

• http//www.peerlearning.ac.uk/
• Piloted four years ago
• Second year students facilitate learning
• Timetabled

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Case Studies

• Small groups to look at a case study and
  identify the role of the personal tutor.
• Feedback and discuss

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Reflection

• Issues raised
• Tutor Support
• Tutor Training
• Commitment
• Codes of conduct/ boundaries
• Consistency of experience

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Thank you

• Heather Hartwell
• hhartwel_at_bournemouth.ac.uk
• Crispin Farbrother
• cfarbrot_at_bournemouth.ac.uk