General
Tutorial Programme
Learner Activities
This activity helps you think about your skills and your approach to learning. It should provide a good starting point for a first review session and could usefully be repeated later in the programme.
The Students' View
Learner experiences
This video explores the Learners' views on what tutorials mean to them and highlights how essential it is to meet learners' needs.
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Helping learners to set individual targets and to review their progress towards them provides a significant challenge to the whole learning and skills sector, but the challenges in this area seem to be particularly widespread in land-based subjects. The main challenges identified in inspection reports for land-based providers include:
• the need to establish a coherent approach to managing learner entitlement
• better and more coherent implementation of current practices
• improvement in the planning skills of tutors
• rigorous monitoring and evaluation
• better record keeping skills
• sound quality assurance mechanisms to detect weaknesses
The Tutors' View
In this video reviewers and managers discuss the significance of progress reviews to their colleges and other providers, and the role that everyone needs to play for them to be effective.
Students were asked about what they wanted from a tutorial. The results were collated by their learning level and are available below:
Tutor Activities
How well prepared are you to support learners' progress, to help with effective individual learner management and progress review? We have developed an activitiy to help you evaluate and develop your skills and to assess what progress you've made.
Target Setting
This activity explores what makes a good target, target writing is very important in ensuring learners acieve their full potential. The S.M.A.R.T model for writing targets supports you in setting targets which are pecific
Specific
Measurable
Achievable
Time bound
Realistic
Signposting Learners:
Welcome to
Student Services
Our focus is our students' futures and happiness at Otley College. We are available throughout the college day to provide a wealth of support.
The Student Services Team are located in T Block next to Reception and can be contacted via phone on .
Head of Student Student Adviser Education Welfare Officer Administrator
Active listening
Active listening means listening to what learners think and feel. Good listeners do have things to say, but they also know when to stay quiet and leave the way clear for learners to talk.
Active listening increases the value of progress reviews.
Active listening requires a set of skills that need continuing professional development. They include:
Ten steps to understanding your learners
You may not ask learners any of these questions directly, but you should try to gather information about all of them.