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		<title>Online tutoring jobs: become an online tutor</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Internet, fast broadband and interactive technologies have revolutionized communication. The impact was enormous and education is an area that has reaped the benefits. On the one hand, students and pupils of all ages have access to new knowledge in a wide range of subjects and skills. On the other hand, the growth of online [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Internet, fast broadband and interactive technologies have revolutionized communication. The impact was enormous and education is an area that has reaped the benefits. On the one hand, students and pupils of all ages have access to new knowledge in a wide range of subjects and skills. On the other hand, the growth of online tutoring jobs that you and tens of thousands of online learning opportunities for teachers.</p>
<p>Online tutoring is attractive because it offers flexibility to teachers. Online teachers can write their own job. Online tutoring jobs are the ability of people with the skills and dedication to help students make a successful career for himself to create or just to share their knowledge and passion for their field of action. They OSA industry nearly as many niches there are people to fill them. Some ways that teachers online as mentoring for online jobs themselves.<span id="more-45"></span></p>
<p><strong>Career coaching jobs</strong></p>
<p>For those unwilling or unable to accept jobs in the formal education, tutoring online can be a full career, becoming full time. This career may be cut according to preferences online tutor tutor AA can work his own hours and specializes in the subject and / or areas of expertise they have the most fun and are more skilled in.</p>
<p>Of course, unlike conventional jobs, it is for the teacher to customers independent online. For those who want to take the online tutoring jobs as a career, versatility is obviously useful. The possibility of more than one subject will help them learn skills and education, all ages and adapting tutoring services offered to the student, SOA needs. This could include help with simple tasks and follow the one end and an intensive support of the SAT and other GRES.</p>
<p><strong>Specialty Tutoring jobs</strong></p>
<p>It is also possible to AA career as a tutor online to build around a specialty. This would be a subject specialty such as math, economics or language courses online. Or perhaps focus on skills. accommodations for students with learning disabilities is an area that offers opportunities for support specialized online. Some online teachers with the skills, may choose to specialize in the preparation of the test, generally or in specific tests for students to prepare.</p>
<p>part time jobs online tutoring</p>
<p>The flexibility that comes with online advice, it is ideal for people who lost two hours a week, but much to share. Although jobs for graduates specialized guidance and counseling may require the skills and experience, on-line tutoring and an option of part-time is taken by many as a career in education began. Some online tutoring option should probably teaching experience, but help with homework and can control an online tutor (and country) to demand, personality and attitude to inspire young students and keep them on the path of education.</p>
<p><strong>Online tutoring in academic and non-leisure</strong></p>
<p>Some teachers online tutoring jobs, mainly because they have a passion for their profession and want to promote it by helping others. Whatever your passion, you will find that there is someone like AA share a particular subject or hobby. Online tutoring is a way to satisfy your passion is to popularize, and many others using the same time.</p>
<p>The main attributes are good teachers online, including love of the subject, extensive knowledge and skills of people to pass. For those with the characteristics and qualities, online tutoring a pleasant and rewarding, complete or partial.</p>
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		<title>Online Tutoring Jobs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re a people person with expertise in a particular field, job mentoring may be ideal for you. Online tutoring jobs are sought by many people in need of schooling in an equally wide range of topics. You can build a satisfying career, impressing your expertise for learners who require additional assistance.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you&#8217;re a people person with expertise in a particular field, job mentoring may be ideal for you. Online tutoring jobs are sought by many people in need of schooling in an equally wide range of topics. You can build a satisfying career, impressing your expertise for learners who require additional assistance.</p>
<p>Who applies for a job teaching online?</p>
<ul>
<li>People with skills and qualifications who wish to work part time. Online tutoring jobs can be programmed to your existing routine.</li>
<li>People who want or need to work from home, for whatever reason.  <a title="Online Tutoring Jobs" href="http://www.tutoringservices.com" target="_blank">Online tutoring jobs</a> Cut out wasted time and expense of long journeys.</li>
<li>People who want to be their own boss. You could go through an agency, but it is also possible to build a career in teaching positions online as an independent.</li>
<li>People with great enthusiasm for learning and helping others learn. Online tutoring jobs Workers costume with a passion for their discipline and the possibilities of the Internet to help those who share their interests.</li>
<li>People who are computer literate and creative. Online tutoring jobs require guardians to consider carefully the way through the Internet can be best used to assist learners.</li>
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The importance of education qualifications is increasingly recognized in today&#8217;s world and the number of students seeking extra help for their studies has increased accordingly. The demand for tuition in recreation and pastime has also expanded as more of us are connected to the Internet. You will find many online tutoring jobs available and a variety of options available to you.</p>
<p>Jobs online tutoring can be adapted to the needs of the service provider. If you have a relationship and experience with school-age learners you can specialize in tutoring for this age group. And specializing in specific matters, people who earn their living through jobs tutoring May specialize in fields other tuiton such as test preparation, help with homework or study skills.</p>
<p>If you venture into the world of online tutoring jobs for the first time, you may be wondering where to start. You can place free classified ads, join an agency that specializes in tutoring jobs online or subscribing to a website specializing in providing the service. The advantage of these is that you may not have to pay commission &#8211; to discover the details carefully.</p>
<p>Posting your profile on a site about online tutoring job is simple, but to attract the students you will need to spend time on creating this profile. Be sure to list your qualifications, experience, teaching style and so on, so that potential students can be clear about what you can offer them.</p>
<p>Online tutoring jobs provide many people with careers that is flexible, challenging, sometimes difficult but often rewarding. With online learning and growing, you are required to be able to find a niche in the world of online tutoring.</p>
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		<title>CHOOSING A TUTOR FOR YOUR CHILD</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As parents we all want our children to do well at school. Sometimes, however, children have problems, and a guardian in May the best solution. In the busy and demanding world of today, the extra time and expense of hiring a tutor is not particularly welcome. However, you can be sure that does not address [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As parents we all want our children to do well at school. Sometimes, however, children have problems, and a guardian in May the best solution. In the busy and demanding world of today, the extra time and expense of hiring a tutor is not particularly welcome. However, you can be sure that does not address the difficulties your child will cost you more time and money in the long term.</p>
<p>Sometimes, the school will provide a tutor. The teacher of your child is most directly involved in your child&#8217;s learning and may be the first to spot problems. But if you notice a pattern of behavior has changed and poorer school performance, take the initiative to consult with your child&#8217;s teacher and determine whether a guardian is necessary. If this seems to be the best solution, are three steps you must take: to find potential mentors, choosing a guardian, and monitoring.</p>
<p><strong>FIND TUTORS</strong><br />
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1. Ideally, you will be able to find a tutor by friends who have used one and can give you first hand information about an individual tutor.<br />
2. The school (usually a consultant) can often put you in contact with potential tutors<br />
3. Parent groups (such as home school organizations) can help. Some keep lists of tutors.<br />
4. The Internet is a good source to <a title="Find A Tutor" href="http://www.tutoringservices.com" target="_blank"><strong>find tutors</strong></a> in your area.</p>
<p><strong>CHOOSE A TUTOR</strong></p>
<p>You should interview several tutors before deciding which is the best match for your child. In general, look for the ability to &#8220;connect&#8221; with your child and a willingness to work with your child&#8217;s teachers as needed. Be prepared to ask specific questions, and feel free to ask for documentation, if applicable.</p>
<p>1. What are the formal powers of the guardian and experience, especially teaching children in the age of your child?<br />
2. Ask for references and background checks.<br />
3. What assessment procedures using guardian to determine how best to tutor your child?<br />
4. Make sure the schedule is clear (about 3 hours per week is usually better in 2 or three sessions). 5. Learn about the policies of the tutor for cancellations and rescheduling, whether by you or by the guardian.<br />
5. What are the costs and what are the payment terms. These should always be made in writing.</p>
<p><strong>THEREAFTER</strong></p>
<p>Once you&#8217;ve chosen a guardian, you will need to monitor your child&#8217;s progress. Make sure he or she is the guardian gives missions. Discuss with the tutor and your child&#8217;s teacher frequently and receive feedback on progress. Finally, when you talk to your child find a tutor, make sure he or she understands this is not a punishment. &#8221; Instead, it is a way to help your child have a better experience and more enjoyable learning.</p>
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		<title>10 tips to online active learning</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Online Courses do not have to be the electronic adoption of the traditional correspondence course in which participant activity and engagement have often been nominal. When online courses are active, e-learners create valuable learning communities, build friendships, and share in online experiences that have similar characteristics and results as those of the conventional classroom. The [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Online Courses do not have to be the electronic adoption of the traditional correspondence course in which participant activity and engagement have often been nominal. When online courses are active, e-learners create valuable learning communities, build friendships, and share in online experiences that have similar characteristics and results as those of the conventional classroom. The following ten tips will help bring active learning to your online courses.</p>
<p>1. Establish clear expectations for participation. The expectations for participation in a classroom course are typically recognizable through the course agenda, syllabus, or time line. For online courses, however, these norms for participation are less frequently established or recognized by participants and should therefore be clarified by the instructor.<span id="more-38"></span></p>
<p>2. Provide etiquette guidelines for online communications. Rules, policies, and recommendations for how participants should interact during an active online course are best communicated at teh beginning of the course. For example, avoid sarcasm, idioms, jargon, and slang.</p>
<p>3. Test-drive any and all technology. Prior to assigning activities that use online technology, the associated tools should be tested by both you and the course participants, Identifying technical problems before course activities begin can save you time as well as a variety of hassles.</p>
<p>4. Create an effective teaching environment. Just as a loud radio or television would divert your attention while facilitating a classroom activity, online technologies can distract you from online engagement just as easily. As a result, it is best to avoid multitasking while teaching online.</p>
<p>5. Don&#8217;t try to do it all the first time. Activities and games for creating engaging online courses are as numerous as your imagination, although too much of a good thing can often lead to problems for participants.</p>
<p>6. Write comments and questions in advance. When teaching an online course, you should prepare for discussions, especially &#8220;live&#8221; chat room discussion, ahead of time using your word processing program. By typing questions or comments beforehand, you can simply cut and paste them into the chat room discussion at the appropriate time without having to delay the conversation.</p>
<p>7. Require informative subject lines. Given the volume of online communications in most any e-learning course, using and requiring detailed subject lines is essential to course organization and management.</p>
<p>8. Get participants involved. The most frequent complaint of online learners is a feeling of isolation from hte learning community. Using online groups, engaging activities, frequent discussion topics, and other active learning strategies can reduce teh anxiety of participants by helping them establish online relationships with their peers.</p>
<p>9. Review and reflect. Online courses provide you and the participants with unprecedented documentation of what was taught, referenced, discussed, and decided in an online course, all of which can be used effectively to review and reflect on the course experiences.</p>
<p>10. Expect the unexpected. Any course that relies on technology will experience a variety of technical &#8220;melt downs&#8221; from time to time. Although technology contingency plans are vital, an online instructor must remain flexible and patient.</p>
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		<title>Monitoring the quality of tutor assessment</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[n-college open learning tutoring of learners studying flexible learning elements may be done by full-time employees of the institution. If that is the case, it is quite normal for there to be various checks on the quality of the tutoring. When open learners are tutored by part-time staff whose main job is for another institution, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>n-college open learning tutoring of learners studying flexible learning elements may be done by full-time employees of the institution. If that is the case, it is quite normal for there to be various checks on the quality of the tutoring. When open learners are tutored by part-time staff whose main job is for another institution, it is necessary to ensure that the quality of assessment and feedback is acceptable. The following suggestions may help you to decide how to approach the setting up of systems to monitor tutor performance.</p>
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<li><strong>Appoint the right tutors in the first place!</strong> There are many reasons why tutors might get into open learning support, ranging from a keen interest to find out about supporting learners working on their own or at a distance, to more pragmatic reasons such as to earn a little extra money. One indicator that high-quality tutor support may be provided is tutors&#8217; willingness to be trained and monitored. There would-be tutors can furnish evidence that they have participated successfully in open learning tutoring already, check whether referees can comment on the quality of this aspect of their work.</li>
<li>B<strong>uild in appropriate filters in tutor training.</strong> While it is not possible to make an early diagnosis of every potential problem, people who are not going to turn out to be effective tutors to open learners often show this during training exercises on giving written feedback to open learners, or when role-playing in staff development workshops face to face or in telephone encounter with learners.<span id="more-34"></span></li>
<li><strong>Have some sort of record of each important encounter between tutors and learners.</strong> For example, in the past some paper-based schemes used triplicate forms for tutor-learner feedback, enabling tutors to keep details of the main points they raised for each tutor-marked assignment, and providing a copy to be kept centrally. Nowadays it is more usual for photocopying to be used for paper-based feedback, and even more usual for the whole process to be done electronically, with emailed feedback also being sent as a matter of routine to whoever is overseeing tutor performance, This allows the monitoring of tone, style and fairness both on a continuous basis and retrospectively when necessary.</li>
<li><strong>Arrange meeting between tutors.</strong> Experienced open learning tutors can share a great deal about best practice with newer tutors. Such meetings can give tutors a realistic picture of the level of work expected from them, the amount of support they may be required to give, and how quickly they should aim to turn assignments round.</li>
<li><strong>Have double marking to check for consistency</strong>. While it would be impossible to have all assignments double-marked, it is usually possible to arrange for a representative sample of each tutor&#8217;s assessments to be re-marked. This helps to fine-tune standard-setting.</li>
<li><strong>Monitor the drop-out rate</strong>. This can give important information about which tutors are providing the best support. It is, however, the least satisfactory way of monitoring tutor performance, as it can turn out to be based on things having gone seriously wrong before detection.</li>
<li><strong>Have systems whereby learners can change their tutors</strong>. Even with the best of tutors, there are sometimes differences of personality, style or approach that make them less than compatible with the occasional learner. It is useful if there is an escape route for either party. It is even better if there is no inquiry or allocation of blame in the event of the occasional request to switch. If a particular tutor is involved in such changes too often, then it is time to explore why.</li>
<li><strong>Ask open learners anonymously about the support they receive from their tutors. </strong>This can convenient be done by using online questionnaires where possible, or computer-based multiple-choice questionnaires, or handwritten questionnaires. This sort of feedback is best analysed in terms of seeking general problems or directions for improvement, rather than as a prelude to troubleshooting matters arising in the work of individual tutors.</li>
<li><strong>Survey open learners&#8217; reactions to open-ended questions about the support they receive from their tutors</strong>. This can of course be done behind backs&#8217;, but is more productive if done through the tutors themselves, who can then also learn at first hand about the issues that they may wish to focus their attention on in the future development of their tutoring. Such surveying is best done after the open learners concerned have finished the module or unit concerned, so that there are no tensions between feedback and assessment.</li>
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		<title>Helping students to read more actively</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The term &#8216;reading for a degree&#8217; has been around for a long time, yet reading is a skill that relatively few students have developed as systematically as they can. The following suggestions may help students take more control of their reading styles:
Remind students how easy it is to read passively: In other words, just reading [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The term &#8216;reading for a degree&#8217; has been around for a long time, yet reading is a skill that relatively few students have developed as systematically as they can. The following suggestions may help students take more control of their reading styles:</p>
<p><strong>Remind students how easy it is to read passively:</strong> In other words, just reading something often yields low learning pay-off. You could demonstrate this to them in a large-group session by giving them a handout with some printed information, then later in the session testing them on the content. Suggest that time spent &#8216;just reading&#8217; can be almost wasted as far as real learning is concerned, and that they can and should develop additional ways of focusing their attention as they read.</p>
<p><strong>Point out the value of jotting down questions before reading something:</strong> It then becomes &#8216;reading with an agenda in mind&#8217; and is automatically more active. As answers to the questions are found, they tend to register.</p>
<p><strong>Help students to make good use of their sources and resources:</strong> Remind them that the most important pages of textbooks are often the contents pages and the index. Suggest that tracking down the relevant information is one of the most important aspects of good reading skills, and information retrieval skills are just as useful with online sources as with textbooks and journal articles.</p>
<p><strong>Suggest that active reading is normally doen with a pen:</strong> For example, making summary notes and mental maps are useful ways of helping ensure that the important ideas are being distilled and refined during reading.</p>
<p><strong>Get students primed to make lists of questions as they read:</strong> Any important information can simply be regarded as the answers to some questions. The measure of how effectively they have read something depends on how well they can identify the questions it addressed, and then answer these questions on it. These questions can later serve as triggers for the important information they have been reading about, and can be used as summaries to aid revision.</p>
<p><strong><span id="more-32"></span>Give students suggestions about when speed-reading can be useful:</strong> For example, when doing a preliminary &#8217;skim&#8217; of a large body of information, speed-reading is very useful for creating a mental map of the information available. Suggest that students check that they are not &#8217;stuck&#8217; in a &#8216;recitation&#8217; mode of reading (often picked up at school in reading-aloud exercises), where the speed of reading is limited to the speed at which students can &#8216;hear&#8217; the words in their minds. Help them to realise that they can read several times faster than they can &#8216;hear&#8217;.</p>
<p><strong>Help students to identify how best to find out what a paragraph is about:</strong> For some kinds of information, reading just the first sentence of every paragraph can be enough. This tecnnique is particularly useful as part of a process of finding the most relevant paragraphs, which can then be read more slowly and thoroughly.</p>
<p><strong>Encourage students to personalize their source materials:</strong> When they own their own books, recommend that they &#8216;make their books their own&#8217; &#8211; for example, by writinig on them, using highlighter pens, photocopying crucial extracts and arranging them in a scrapbook format, and so on. The same applies to handout materials, and printouts from material downloaded from the Web. (Obviously, advise against defacing library copies. Furthermore, recognise that many students nowadays &#8216;buy to sell back&#8217;, so that annotating their books with Post-it notes can be the most suitable approach to personalising them temporarily.)</p>
<p><strong>Quality of reading counts more than quantity of reading:</strong> Encourage students to be selective. Advise them that quality of reading and relevance are much more important than mere breadth of reading &#8211; especially when preparing for written exams. Only so much can be written in an exam room.</p>
<p><strong>Point out the danger of using reading as a work avoidance tactic:</strong> Despite the various ways of improving the quality of reading, remind students that most &#8216;high-pay-off learning&#8217; is learning by doing in one form or another &#8211; not just reading. Activities such as practising answering questions on what has been read have higher learning pay-off than does reading.</p>
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		<title>Helping students to get their heads round what they&#8217;ve learned</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you only have a given number of hours to cover your parts of a programme with students, it is all too easy to fill all the available hours with planned teaching. It is important to accommodate students&#8217; need for time to reflect on what they are learning, and to take stock of how their [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When you only have a given number of hours to cover your parts of a programme with students, it is all too easy to fill all the available hours with planned teaching. It is important to accommodate students&#8217; need for time to reflect on what they are learning, and to take stock of how their learning is going:</p>
<p><strong>Being there is only one part of the picture:</strong> Keep reminding students that it is not enough for them simply to be there at lectures, tutorials, laboratory classes, and so on. In addition, they need to work out their own ways of consolidating what they are learning, doing coursework and preparing for assessment. They need to take on the responsibility for making sense of it all, and getting up to speed regarding being able to answer questions on it, solve problems with it, and so on.</p>
<p><strong>Get students processing what they&#8217;ve learned:</strong> Devise short tasks to set students, such that they necessarily reflect on material they have been introduced to. Give the tasks out as (for example) structured task-sheets at the end of lectures, or post them online immediately after each lecture. Such tasks can be the basis of tutorial and seminar activities.</p>
<p><strong>Find out how students think their learning is going:</strong> One way of allowing students to reflect on learning experiences is to ask them to provide you with feedback about their learning. Issuing a questionnaire asking (for example) them to categorise various topics into &#8216;completely understand&#8217;, &#8216;more or less understand&#8217; and &#8216;don&#8217;t yet understand&#8217; gives you feedback about their progress, but also helps them to reflect on their individual positions (and to compare their feelings with colleagues&#8217;).</p>
<p><strong>Play it again &#8211; and again if it&#8217;s important:</strong> Explain the importance of repetition in learning and understanding. Suggest that it&#8217;s more useful to go over something for a few minutes several tiems than to spend one long spell studying it. Explain that when they are repeatedly spending a short time studying something, their subconscious mind is continuing to process the information and makse sense of it.</p>
<p><strong><span id="more-30"></span>Suggest useful reflection techniques to students:</strong> For example, get them to review a lecture by deciding their answer to a question such as &#8216;if there were just two things I would need to remember from this lecture, they would be (1)&#8230; and (2)&#8230;&#8217;.</p>
<p><strong>Encourage students to find out what has actually happened in their minds:</strong> Remind students of the dangers of reading passively &#8211; just turning the pages without any real learning occurring. Suggest that they stop and reflect at frequent intervals on what they have just been reading, for example by making a short summary or mind map of it, or by turning what they have learned into a list of short questions to quiz themselves with later.</p>
<p><strong>Build some reflection-type activities into your teaching sessions:</strong> For example, use a lecture period now and then to pose to the class a series of problems or issues based on material they have met already, first getting students to reach individual decisions or answers, then initiating a discussion or debriefing with the whole group.</p>
<p><strong>Make sure that students will consolidate what they have covered:</strong> For example, when deciding topics for student-led seminars, help to ensure that the preparation for the seminars will include reflecting on material that has already been covered in the programme, and linking it to the specific topics of the seminars. This helps students to see what we actually mean when we place emphasis on reflective learning.</p>
<p><strong>Reflection can happen just about anywhere:</strong> Advise students that they can use all sorts of times and places to reflect. A considerable amount of reflection can be done in just a few minutes. Odd bits of time that might otherwise be completely wasted can be used for useful reflection &#8211; for example, waiting in a queue, train journeys, boring bits of lectures, and so on.</p>
<p><strong>Help students to realise how useful their classmates can be to them:</strong> Enthuse students regarding how useful it can be to deliberately reflect with a few of their peers. Two or three people looking back at a lecture (or something they have all just read) can come up with more ideas than any one person would have, and because they are explaining their ideas by putting them into words to each other, the ideas will be more firmly registered in their minds, leading to deeper learning.</p>
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		<title>Helping students to develop time-management skills</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:56:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The same number of hours in each day is given to everyone, but time-management skills are widely underdeveloped. If we can manage our time well, we can manage just about everything else. The ten suggestions that follow can help students increase their mastery over time:
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The same number of hours in each day is given to everyone, but time-management skills are widely underdeveloped. If we can manage our time well, we can manage just about everything else. The ten suggestions that follow can help students increase their mastery over time:</p>
<p><strong>Help students to see what&#8217;s in it for them to become better at time management:</strong> Help them to work out the benefits of well-developed time-management skills. Help them to see that personal productivity, personal efficiency and personal effectiveness are all connected to their ability to manage time. Allow them to work out that time-management skills have lifelong value and enhance all their other skills and aptitudes &#8211; and in due course enhance their empoyability too.</p>
<p><strong>Get students thinking conciously about learning pay-off:</strong> Ask them what kinds of activity have a high pay-off in terms of learning. These can include discussing, explaining, summarising, problem-solving and quizzing each other. Ask them what kinds of activity have low learning pay-off, these can includ writing in copying mode, reading passively, and appearing to listen. Time is too precious to squander on actions that have only low learning pay-off.</p>
<p><strong>Help students to stop and look back:</strong> Get them to reflect on things they have learned, rather than simply hope that the learning has happened by magic. Ask them to work out how their learning happened, exactly what they learned, exactly when the learning happened, and how it can be made more efficient next time.</p>
<p><strong>Help students to spare themselves from the effects of procrastination:</strong> Show them how wasteful and miserable just thinking about work can be &#8211; compared with simply getting on with it. Time spent thinking about work has associations with a guilty conscience, and looming tasks. Time spent after work has been successfully completed is high-quality time &#8211; the most enjoyable sort of time. But recognise that this is a counsel of perfection, which we ourselves don&#8217;t always abide by!</p>
<p><strong><span id="more-28"></span>Encourage students to get stuck in straight away:</strong> Remind them how often 90 percent of things tend to get done in the last 10 percent of the time available. Point out that it is therefore logical that most things can be done in the first 10 percent of the time available &#8211; leading to the luxury of having much more genuine &#8216;free&#8217; time. Hint at the positive feelings and confidence that come with always having things done well ahead of schedule &#8211; and indeed the security of knowing that there is room to accommodate the odd unexpected hiccup or crisis.</p>
<p><strong>Get students to set stage deadlines for themselves:</strong> Encourage them to set several stage deadlines rather than one final deadline. Encourage them to break large tasks into manageable chunks. Encourage them to set deadlines &#8216;early&#8217; to allow for the unexpected.</p>
<p><strong>Help students feel positive about getting ahead of schedule:</strong> Point out the benefit of doing half an hour&#8217;s work on a non-urgent task each time before starting an urgent one. The urgent one will get done, as there is pressure to complete it. The practice of doing a little non-urgent work gradually leads to a situation in which there are fewer and fewer urgent tasks. Point out that human nature is such that &#8216;urgent&#8217; is often synonymous with &#8216;late&#8217;, but that this situation can be countered by conscious adjustment of study patterns.</p>
<p><strong>Get students to do a risk assessment:</strong> Help them to identify the consequences for them of poor time management. Help them to see where their own particular risks lie. When they are aware of the risks and the consquences, they are much more likely to adjust their study habits to compensate for these.</p>
<p><strong>Help students to maximise their use of peer support:</strong> Get them to use each other in setting and monitoring deadlines. Show them that the more people know about a deadline, the more likely it is to be met.</p>
<p><strong>Convince students that minutes can count for more than hours:</strong> Few people have many free two-hour windows in their week; everyone has lots of five-minute windows. Using just some of the short time slots for study related tasks can pay much higher dividends than putting everything off until a two-hour window comes along.</p>
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		<title>Helping students to explore how they learn best</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The more students know about the processes by which they learn best, the more they can harness those processes to their advantage. It is useful to build in some study-skills discussion right at the beginning of your programme, alongside the first bits of learning. Students will then see that you&#8217;re interested in helping them find [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The more students know about the processes by which they learn best, the more they can harness those processes to their advantage. It is useful to build in some study-skills discussion right at the beginning of your programme, alongside the first bits of learning. Students will then see that you&#8217;re interested in helping them find out not only what to learn, but also how best to go about it. The following ideas can be used to help students take ownership of some key steps in the ways they learn:</p>
<p><strong>Start with their achievements:</strong> Ask your students to think of something they&#8217;re good at, and to jot it down.</p>
<p><strong>Get them thinking about how they have already achieved things:</strong> For example, ask them to write down a few words explaining how they became good at whatever it was.</p>
<p><strong>Get them reflecting on how they learned things well:</strong> Help them compare their responses to the previous two questions. For example, most students will have used words such as &#8216;doing it&#8217;, &#8216;practice&#8217;, &#8216;repetition&#8217;, &#8216;trial and error&#8217;, &#8216;getting it wrong at first&#8217;. Use these ideas to help them see that most learning is done in an active way. Remind them how useful it can be to learn by making mistakes, and how therefore it is useful to regard mistakes as valuable learning experiences.</p>
<p><strong>Help them see that &#8216;learning&#8217; is down to them:</strong> We can&#8217;t do it for them! Comment on how rarely people declare that they became good at something simply by &#8216;being taught&#8217; or &#8216;being shown how&#8217;, and so on. From this, draw out the need for students to take an active part in the various teaching-learning situations they encounter, rather than sitting passively &#8216;being taught and hoping it will stick&#8217;.</p>
<p><strong>Ask students to think of something they feel good about:</strong> Ask them (for example) to identify a personal attribute or quality about which they feel a sense of pride, and then to jot it down. Next, ask them to write down a few words explaining upon what basis they feel good about whatever they wrote down in answer to the previous question. In other words, ask them, &#8216;Upon what evidence do you have this positive feeling?&#8217;</p>
<p><strong>Help students to realise how important feedback can be:</strong> By far the most frequent answers to &#8216;how do you know feel good about this?&#8217; include phrases such as &#8216;other people&#8217;s reactions&#8217;, &#8216;feedback from other people&#8217;, &#8216;the expressions on people&#8217;s faces&#8217;, &#8216;people come back to me for help&#8217;, and so on. In other words, the keys to positive feelings tend to be feedback, and other people. This can be a useful way of helping students develop a healthy &#8216;thirst for feedback&#8217; rather than trying to hide from situations where other people see how they&#8217;re doing.</p>
<p><strong><span id="more-26"></span>Remind students that studying is not a completely separate part of their lives:</strong> The same processes that lead to becoming good at anything in life also apply to successful studying. Similarly, the same processes that lead to positive feelings about anything in life also apply to developing positive feelings about studying.</p>
<p><strong>Help students to learn from disasters as well as triumphs:</strong> Ask them to think of some learning experience that went wrong, and to write down a few words about what happened to make it an unsuccessful learning experience.</p>
<p><strong>Help them to compare the causes of poor learning experiences:</strong> Common causes relate to a lack of feedback (therefore lack of positive feelings) and to lack of opportunity to practise (therefore a lack of &#8216;learning by doing&#8217;). Other causes are lack of motivation &#8211; in other words, no deep wish to succeed &#8211; or a lack of time to make sense of it all, or no time to reflect.</p>
<p><strong>Highlight for your students the main factors underpinning successful (and enjoyable) learning:</strong> These are:</p>
<ul>
<li>wanting to learn &#8211; a sense of purpose;</li>
<li>needing to learn &#8211; being clear about their targets and the standards to aim for, knowing why things are important;</li>
<li>learning by doing &#8211; practice, experimentation, repetition, trial and error;</li>
<li>feedback &#8211; from each other, from tutors, from handouts, from Web sources, all leading to positive feeling about what has been learned;</li>
<li>making sense of what has been learned &#8211; getting their heads round it, &#8216;digesting&#8217; it, putting it into perspective.</li>
</ul>
<p>It can be useful to keep reminding students of the importance of all these factors as they continue into your programme, and helping them work out ways of taking ownership of the importance of these factors as they develop their learning processes in the context of the content of your programme.</p>
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		<title>Helping students to prepare to start learning</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before the start of a programme of module, there may be a vacation or other slack time when students could, if they wished, do much to pave their way towards success. To be able to do so, they need to know what might be useful things for them to do to prepare for your programme. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Before the start of a programme of module, there may be a vacation or other slack time when students could, if they wished, do much to pave their way towards success. To be able to do so, they need to know what might be useful things for them to do to prepare for your programme. Here are some ways to help them:</p>
<p><strong>Make sure they&#8217;re given appropriate information:</strong> For example, try to ensure that students are given printed documentation about your programme (or your part of a course) some time in advance. A syllabus, for example, can be a useful start &#8211; better still, a programme or module handbook. If you know they&#8217;ve all got appropriate access, such material can be useful online.</p>
<p><strong>Get them pre-reading:</strong> Give them a list providing some ideas about useful sources to consult before the programme begins. The shorter and more focused such a list is, the more likely it is that students will try to do some pre-reading.</p>
<p><strong>Tell them why:</strong> Explain why it&#8217;s useful to study each major piece, and give positive suggestions regarding what students should try to extract from each source. Arming students with lists of questions can be a very productive way of helping them focus their reading. Build in tasks to accompany their pre-reading, including specific short-tasks.</p>
<p><strong>Alert students to the intended learning outcomes:</strong> The sooner they know about the standards they will eventually need to achieve, the more they can adjust their expectations about your programme. Giving examples of aims, learning outcomes, relevant assessment criteria and last year&#8217;s exam questions can be useful ways of helping students to tune in to the level of your programme.</p>
<p><strong>Consider giving them a pre-learning package:</strong> Although this may take some time for you to put together, it can serve a valuable role in years to come. It can help to provide you with an identified starting level for the whole group. A useful package will be a mixture of information, references, tasks and activities, with particular attention being given to designing printed responses to the tasks and activities, so that students working alone through the pre-course package have the benefit of feedback on their attempts.</p>
<p><strong><span id="more-24"></span>Give them a pre-programmer checklist:</strong> For example, provide students with a list of &#8216;useful things to do before starting this programme&#8217;. Some of these things could involve brushing up on relevant past learning. Other elements could include ideas and thoughts to collect together, and perhaps suggestions for a preliminary experimentation or fieldwork.</p>
<p><strong>Advise them on what to bring to the first sessions on the programme:</strong> Such advice is always welcomed by students. However, they need something better than a list of the recommended reading. They need a &#8216;user-friendly&#8217; guide to what will be really useful in the first days of the programme. It can be useful to enlist the help of some students who have finished the programme (successfully) to put together a &#8216;what to get beforehand&#8217; checklist.</p>
<p><strong>Get last year&#8217;s students to help this year&#8217;s students to find their feet:</strong> Try getting past students to draft a letter to new students, which can be a valuable way of breaking the ice with the new students. This is particularly relevant when your contribution is at the very start of an entire programme. Such letters can be accompanied by up-to-date information &#8211; for example, the times and places of the first few components of your part of their programme.</p>
<p><strong>It&#8217;s never too early to point students towards the study skills they will need to develop:</strong> It can be useful to recommend one or two useful sources of study skills advice that are directly relevant to your programme or module (or better still, write some key suggestions yourself).</p>
<p><strong>Don&#8217;t send too much information:</strong> When sending out ideas for pre-programme preparation, ensure that students won&#8217;t feel snowed under by a mass of paperwork. If it all looks too daunting, they&#8217;ll probably do none of it &#8211; and maybe they won&#8217;t arrive at all. A &#8216;front sheet&#8217; summarising the bits and pieces in your &#8216;pre-programme&#8217; pack &#8211; and with several marked &#8216;optional&#8217; &#8211; can help students take a balanced view of it all.</p>
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