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Andy Perrins (PBS) Paul Ramsay (ASK)

The integration of skills into the first year curriculum - a key item in the student support agenda. A Portsmouth perspective. Andy Perrins (PBS) Paul Ramsay (ASK). Department for Curriculum and Quality Enhancement.

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Andy Perrins (PBS) Paul Ramsay (ASK)

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  1. The integration of skills into the first year curriculum - a key item in the student support agenda.A Portsmouth perspective Andy Perrins (PBS) Paul Ramsay (ASK)

  2. Department for Curriculum and Quality Enhancement “The central aim of DCQE is to enhance the quality of the student learning experience and promote student success.”

  3. “Any student, any course, any level” 1:1/small group skills tutoring Resource development Academic literacies practices paradigm Background to the Academic Skills Unit (ASK) at Portsmouth • Constituted 2001 • Capacity increased 2004 • Faculty linkage 2005 • 2008…

  4. Unit structure Teaching capacity 2400 hrs Unit Head

  5. A snapshot of the business • 2005/06 • Registered students: 1604 (9% of Institution total) • Individual teaching: 2520 sessions/2236 hours • Faculty-based teaching: 200 hours

  6. ASK’s core mission “To provide additional teaching for students in the area of academic and study skills that are vital to achievement in Higher Education.”

  7. (Data summarised from ASK session database)

  8. ACADEMIC Skills Unit

  9. Debates • Pedagogic • Study skills /Academic Socialisation/Academic Literacies practices(e.g. Lea & Street, 2000) • Organisation • Embedded/Targeted/Modular/External(Fallows, 2003) • Specialist/Semi-integrated/Integrated (Warren (2002) cited in Thomas (2006))

  10. Teaching input “Off the peg” Generous consultant Writing genre analysis Subject, Academic Skills & Linguist specialists Development of generic e-learning environment Specific articulation of learning objects FL&TC prioritised projects Top-down sponsorship Local ownership and championing Complementary strengths Managed engagement and evolutionary strategy Success breeding success Interdisciplinarity: adopting best practices Adding value Complementary

  11. Fallows, S. (2003). Teaching and learning for student skills development. In H. Fry, S. Ketteridge, & S. Marshall (Eds.), A Handbook for Teaching & Learning in Higher Education: Enhancing Academic Practice (2nd ed., pp.121-133). Oxford: Routledge/Palmer. Lea, M. and Street, B. (2000). Student Writing and Staff Feedback in Higher Education: An Academic Literacies Approach. In M. Lea & B. Stierer (Eds.), Student Writing in Higher Education. (pp. 32-46). Buckingham: Open University Press. Thomas, L. (2006). Widening participation and the increased need for personal tutoring. In L.Thomas, & P. Hixenbaugh (Ed.), Personal Tutoring in Higher Education (pp. 21-31). Stoke on Trent: Trentham Books Ltd.T

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