Personal tutoring
Personal Tutoring
Personal Tutoring
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Personal tutoring framework and activities
The role of the Manchester Met personal tutor is to work with tutees to support them in progressing through their time at university. Activities will come under three categories we call the 3Cs. These are:
- Course: Course-focused support for academic progress.
- Community: Community building through encouraging participation in a learning community and signposting to support services when required.
- Career: Career planning support towards an identified career path.
Here are some suggestions for activities that will tend to happen in each year of an undergraduate degree.
Year one
Course Community Career Appropriate check-in points around assessment and feedback and support for resits (where appropriate)
Pre-arrival welcome. Establish contact with all students (Home and international students) once they have a confirmed place. Share contact details and details of arrangements for initial personal tutor meetings
Review of career readiness material
Advice point around option choices
Induction – Plans for establishing personal tutor meetings in the first two weeks
RISE opportunities
Support for attendance (at appropriate place in Attendance Monitoring System)
Ongoing communication or contact throughout the year, signposting to other services where appropriate
Future me plan Year two
Course Community Career Appropriate check-in points around assessment and feedback and support for resits (where appropriate)
Pre-arrival welcome, contact details and information on first meeting
Continued development of Future me plan
Advice point around option choices/dissertations
Ongoing contact and communication throughout the year, signposting to other services where appropriate
RISE opportunities
Year Abroad or Work Placement
Course Community Career Advice regarding option choices/ dissertations where appropriate
Plan for ongoing contact throughout the year
De-brief meeting to ensure reinforcement of career benefits
Final Year
Course Community Career Appropriate check-in points around assessment and feedback
Pre-arrival welcome, contact details and information on first meeting
Continued development of Future me plan
Support for attendance (at appropriate place in Attendance Monitoring System)
Ongoing contact and communication throughout the year, referral where appropriate
Introduction to alumni schemes/networks
Post-graduation
Course Community Career Potential to connect to current students as mentor
Connection point for alumni activity where appropriate
Provide references on request, potentially inform of career support opportunities post-graduation
Personal tutoring is relational
Eileen Pollard explains Manchester Metropolitan University's personal tutoring policy and its impact.Personal Tutoring Refresher
Personal Tutoring Five-Minute Explainer
In this five-minute explainer, Dr Eileen Pollard gives a brief overview of resources available for Personal Tutoring at Manchester Met.Please note that My Five Year Plan has changed to Future me plan.