Supporting Students

Carousel Training @ Access SUMMIT...

Please find below further details about the Carousel Training to be held on Friday 25^th January from 9:30 am through to 4:30 pm. Please note that this is an opt-in event but all Tutors, Assessors and Mentors attending will be paid at the non-student contact rate for attendance.

The suggestions given for sessions have been collated and are detailed below with a brief description of the intended content . Please indicate your preferences on the form below and submit it by Friday 11^th January 2008.There is not much time to collate responses so please meet this deadline as late responses may prevent us from being able to inform you in advance of your allocated sessions, which would limit any preparation we and you would be able to do.

Each peer driven session will have someone who steers the group and keeps the focus on the key issues of the session. The leaders of these sessions are not intended to be the sole ‘expert’ as any such sessions are an opportunity to share practice and ideas so please come to such sessions prepared to do this.

Carousel training provides several parallel sessions from which you can choose the most appropriate mix of topics to suit your interests. You are encouraged to attend as you will appreciate that we are then able to offer a wider range of workshops.

If you have any questions please contact Paul Byrne at paul.byrne@access-summit.org.uk .

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Are you able to attend?
Sessions will be "Expert Led" - or Facilitated Group Discussions - bring your own/share others' experiences:		My choices of sessions are: (Please select FIVE sessions or fewer):
	Demystifying the Educational Psychologist’s diagnostic report A repeat of the session held during the Barriers to Learning course. It will look at the process of the report and is intended to help tutors / mentors use the report to impact on their work with students.
	Study skills – Different experiences Sally Daunt will lead a session looking at resources used at different institutions.
	Transactional Analysis Kathryn Warren has offered to lead this session looking at Transactional Analysis in mentoring or study skills support as a way to understand students’ frames of reference and how to help them overcome barriers to learning.
	Research – Finding it and Using it Effectively Part 2 A follow up to the previous well received session. However, attendance at the previous session is not necessary to attend this one.
	Supporting students with Asperger’s Syndrome Norman Darwen from NAS/Prospects will lead a session looking at the challenges faced and posed by students at university.
+	Mentoring – case studies exploring supporting and enabling students within the boundaries of the mentor role This session is intended to provide tutors with an opportunity to meet and talk about situations / scenarios they have dealt with. Sarah Littlejohn – Director of The Manchester University Counselling Service will also be participating.
	Critical Thinking. What is it? How do you enable students to do it? A sharing of ideas, resources, practice. Discussion may overlap with issues related to literature reviews .
	Proofreading. How do you enable students to do it? This is intended to overlap with approaches to grammar, planning and structuring. Bring ideas and examples.
	Texthelp-Read & Write Gold / Inspiration A sharing of ideas and practice. Bring ideas and examples of how you have used assistive software to support spelling/proofreading/revision/planning/time management etc An expert will hopefully be on hand to answer any queries but this is intended as a sharing of ideas and skills and not an expert led demonstration
Please ensure that you have have selected no more than five sessions and then click the Submit button below

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