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Seminar Groups Preparing for Success

at University
There is a register at the front
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Find your name and use a highlighter to
indicate your attendance
Check which group you are in Week 1: An introduction to FY026
Knowledge and Creativity
Group 1 2 3 4 5
Tutor Celosia Maggs Paulette Ann Sara
Mendes Thomas Morris Mullard / Eaglesfield
Ina Stan
Introducing your Module Team
Room N2.03 N4.10 N4.13 N4.14 N2.13
Module Structure
Assignments

Introductions Course Team

Your course team:

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Delivery
 Sara Eaglesfield
Sara Ina Stan  Ann Mullard
Eaglesfield  Ina Stan
 Allison Smale
• Associate Lecturers delivering seminars
 Celosia Mendes
 Maggs Thomas
 Paulette Morris

Plan for today Preparing for Success at University

Important preparation for study

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Lecture 10-11 Seminar 11-1 • Timetable • Bring something to write
• Introductions • Getting to know each other  Can be downloaded from with and on
Blackboard  Pen & paper
• Course information • Reading Log
 Should be updated regularly  Tablet
 What you can expect from
– to reflect room changes or  Laptop
us and what we expect
additional events
from you
 Don’t miss out! • Have a folder to store all
• Assessment your notes and classwork
• Academic diary or planner
• Assignment Briefing  Keep everything
 Record important dates and
 CW1 • Handouts
deadlines
• Readings
 Plan workload
• Notes

These will help you to manage your time and work

while you study the Preparing for Success modules…

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Preparing for Success at University Preparing for success at University

Important preparation for study

2 modules based on our Graduate Attributes
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• Timetable • Bring something to write
 Can be downloaded
Timetables
from withbeen
have and on
Blackboard  Pen & paper
updated. You have been put
 Should be updated regularly  Tablet
into seminar
– to reflect room changes or groups so this
 Laptop
should have simplified your
additional events
 Don’t miss out! • Have a folder to store all
timetable.
your notes and classwork
• Academic diary or planner
 Keep everything
 Record important dates and
• Handouts
deadlines
• Readings
 Plan workload
• Notes

These will help you to manage your time and work

while you study the Preparing for Success modules…

Preparing for success at University Preparing for Success at University

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• Develop the academic skills required to be an effective
learner
• Prepare for progressing to study at Level 4
• Engage with lifelong learning
• Apply learning in different settings
• Take responsibility for continuing academic and
professional development
This semester we are • Reflect on your individual learning and consider how it
studying FY026 Knowledge can be applied in Level 4 and other settings
and Creativity

Preparing for Success at University: Learning Outcomes Preparing for Success at University: Content

On successful completion of the module, the student will be able to: We are providing
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Demonstrate effective communication skills,
• Opportunities to develop your
1 L  Learning and study skills
applicable to academic and professional contexts.
 Communication
Reflect on their individual performance, behaviour  Numeracy
2 K
and experience in education and/ or employment
 Digital literacy and technology skills
Locate and evaluate resources for academic and  Assessment literacy
3 K
employment-related purposes  Problem solving skills

Think critically and creatively about graduate

4 C
employment opportunities in the future

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Preparing for Success at University: A Collaboration Delivery Types

We are providing For most weeks of this semester, this module will
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• Time
 6 hours of teaching time per week • Monday
 Delivery types  Lecture – 1 hour
• Lectures
 Seminar – 2 hours
• Seminars You are
• Workshops • Thursday expected to
• Tutorials  Workshop – 3 hours attend ALL 3
sessions
• Assignment, grades and feedback EVERY week
 3 working weeks from deadline (excludes bank
holidays and time when the university is closed)

Preparing for Success at University: A Collaboration Preparing for Success at University: A Collaboration

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• To us • To yourselves
 Commitment  Commitment
• 6 hours of attendance per week at taught sessions and • Preparation and ‘Homework’ – do any readings or work
tutorials that is required for the classes
• Communicate* • Attendance
 Apologies (in advance wherever possible) to be provided • Assignments – meet the deadlines
for any absence
• Communicate
 Let us know if there are other problems that affect your
 Join in the discussions in class
ability to attend or complete work
 Talk to each other
 Talk to your tutors
* Always include your name and student id in any e-mail or
 Make friends
other message so we know exactly who you are.

Preparing for Success at University: A Collaboration Collaboration

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help
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• To yourself
• In addition to attending the scheduled classes • Registers will be taken
 14 hours* of Guided Independent Study per week
• Unexplained absences will be followed up
 (*minimum – more is optional but always beneficial)
• Don’t ignore problems or wait until it’s almost
 This will include activities such as
• Researching, designing, preparing, writing coursework
deadline time to inform us of something
• Meeting in groups outside class for group work important
• ‘Homework’ – readings, watching videos, preparation
required for the next teaching session, the Reading Log
• Following up ideas and concepts from lectures using
the reference lists Collaboration: this means we are in this together
• Visiting the Library – in person or via web

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Preparing for Success at University Assessment

Where is all this information stored?
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• Blackboard Code Weighting Type Length Week
 Our Virtual Learning Environment (aka VLE)
CW1 40% Reflective essay 1000 words 11
• Module: Preparing For Success: Knowledge CW2 60% Portfolio* 12
and Creativity
 Module Guide – contains our year long schedule
 Module Materials – has a folder for each week
 Assignment Brief Information - contains our assignment
briefs
 Portfolios
We are exploring
this on Thursday
 Submit Your Work – will contain the electronic submission
points for the assessments
* Assignment Briefs are on Blackboard
* Portfolio – this will be briefed separately

Assignment Briefing Assignment Briefing

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% or Length Outcomes • The assignment brief is on Blackboard
Activity Type P/F Assessed • The task is to
Coursework: 40 1000 words 1, 2 • Review and write about
Written Assignment (+ or – 10% so  How and why you have developed
900-1100)
as a learner during this module
Deadline: Monday 17th December at 2:00pm
 Further reflections on how to
Submission: via an electronic submission point within the VLE
approach future challenges and
Feedback and grades: Available from Monday 21st January 2019 expectations of a university course

Journey Lines Journey Lines

Further reflections on how to approach
Today we are here, at the
future challenges and expectations of a
start. What is your
Essay Deadline – your essay university course
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should review the term.
* Seminar activity What is different now to how
it was at the start?

How and why you have

developed as a learner
during this module?

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Assignment Briefing The seminars will start promptly at 11

• The classes in this semester are designed to support the

assignment
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• There will be opportunities to when we can
 Research, plan, write sections of your coursework in class
 Get formative feedback on your progress • Introduce ourselves to each
• Attend all the sessions, do the guided independent study and other in our seminar groups
it will all be ok.
• If it is not, ask for help.
• Discuss any questions about
 Don’t wait, feel embarrassed, or feel stupid – just ask
the assignment
 Ask – in class, via e-mail, in tutorials • Discuss the reading log
 Go see the Learning Development Unit in N1.01
 Dyslexic? Go to the Disabilities Centre

Seminar Groups Seminar

There is a register at the front Introductions: Human Bingo

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Find your name and use a highlighter to
indicate your attendance
Check which group you are in

Group 1 2 3 4 5
Tutor Celosia Maggs Paulette Ann Sara
Mendes Thomas Morris Mullard / Eaglesfield
Ina Stan
Room N2.03 N4.10 N4.13 N4.14 N2.13

Human Bingo Module / Assignment Q&A

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other than produce a Democrat party story today
English graph leader

has been to has a part-time has met a has an up-to- knows what
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at Bucks

can explain the has never can direct you plays a musical has given a
difference watched Game to the Owen instrument presentation in
between of Thrones Harris building the last six
‘concise’ and months
‘precise’

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CW1 A reflective essay A starting point for reflection

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"The challenges of managing
• Learners are aware of and control their learning by • What Are My
oneself may seem obvious, if
actively participating in reflective thinking – Strengths?
not elementary. And the
 assessing what they know answers may seem self- • How Do I Perform?
 what they need to know evident to the point of
appearing naive. But • What Are My Values?
 how they bridge that gap
managing oneself requires • Where Do I Belong?
new and unprecedented things
• What Should I
from the individual, and
especially from the knowledge Contribute?
worker.“ (Drucker 1999 cited in
Karlgaard, 2009)

CW1 A reflective essay Make a life graph

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• To write about progress and development there has to
be a starting point
• Define your starting point
 Who are you now?
 What do you know about how to achieve a pass in
your subject or this module?
 What are your current strengths and weaknesses?
 What has brought you to being here, in this
classroom, today?

Oct. 2018 (Holt, 2018)

An Educational Life Graph What does your Life Graph look like?

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Using your life graph Reading Log

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• To write about progress and development there has to • Reading a range of types of text
be a starting point • Recording references
• Define your starting point • Making notes on reading
 Who are you now?
 What do you know about how to achieve a pass in
your subject or this module?
 What are your current strengths and weaknesses?
 What has brought you to being here, in this
classroom, today?

Oct. 2018

Reading Log Reading Log

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• Select a story from the Students Union newspaper and • Read the article
use it to complete your first reading log
• Complete the log
paperwork
• The templates and link to the website are on Blackboard
in Module Materials
• Go to the subfolder for Academic Week 1 Tips
• Don’t stress over it
• Alternative reading • This is the first one
• http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/ • We are doing it all in class to
• Select a news story from the Bucks Free Press website learn what it is about

Reading Log
Reading Log Summary

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• Discussed the module and what we all will need to
• Why you chose this • Who?
contribute to make it work for all of us
reading • When?
• Whether you • What is it called? • Discussed the assignments
recommend this • Where is it • Identified where module information is held
reading published?
• Why/why not? • Who is the • Participated in activities*
• Identify a word or publisher?
phrase that is new or  Human Bingo
of interest to you  Life Graph * These have produced
work that you need to keep
 Reading Log
safe. They can go into the
Portfolio for CW2.

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THURSDAY
Library and IT inductions start on Thursday 4 th October and will
be completed on Thursday 11th October
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• Computer rooms have a capacity of 20
• We are in groups of 30
• We cannot stay in Monday seminar groups for this
• There are not enough IT staff and Librarians to cover 5
groups in one afternoon
• We will complete the process next week.
• There are other activities for those not in an induction
session
• Come to G5.02 to find out which group you are in for the
inductions or for the alternative activities