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Personal Tutor

 

 

 

 
 INDUCTION DAY ONE

The purpose of induction day is to make students feel comfortable with and connected to College physically and virtually.

 

They should leave knowing where they will be going on Monday September 7th, and have some new friends who they can meet up with.

 

Useful things to have/ know for Induction:

  • Chromebooks or access to IT for part of the day

  • Timetables and student ID cards

  • Code of conduct

  • How students can connect to Eduroam wifi

  • How to download the Cambria app, and about the Student facebook page

  • Details of things students will need for their course and to take notes

  • Access to Promonitor for the teacher

  • Access to Proportal for the students

  • Access to Moodle and some knowledge of digital badges 

 

 

 

 

Croeso Activities

Make sure that all learners know the basics. 

  • Your name and contact details

  • The room number you are in and how rooms and blocks are named

  • Where basic things they need are - food, toilets, break areas, main areas where they will be studying, library, student services

  • What to do and where to go if there is a fire alarm

  • How to contact the College if they are unable to come to class (new online method via the app). If learners are not in class, they will probably receive a text if they haven't reported their absence in the first 15 minutes after class begins. This text reminds them that they need to be in class. Attendance is carefully and closely monitored. It is really important that all learners attend all their sessions if they wish to do well and to pass their course.

  • The role of the Personal Tutor - how often you all meet (weekly) and how you will support your learners to achieve through helping them set and monitor learning targets, widening their horizons and getting them to achieve beyond what they initially expected, focussing them on long term achievement goals and coaching them to achieve and overcome any barriers to learning.

 

 

 

 

 

Meet Us Activities

These can be done through the day and can be any icebreakers you want to use. Here are some examples, categorised under first icebreakers to get to know each other, and then a second set to find out a little more about each other.

Get Connected Activities

 

In this section of the day we need all learners to be able to:

  • get onto College systems

  • have their student cards and timetables ( any issues to be sorted via Student Services)

  • check their personal details are accurate and update these in their student Proportal Account

 

We also need all personal tutors to ensure:

 

1. Group lists - the names of students need to be checked

2. Student records and qualifications - students may be asked to provide evidence of qualifications (certificates or exam results slips) where the college is unable to access their qualifications from the Learner Records Service. They may not be allowed to continue on their chosen course without providing verifiable evidence of achieving the required qualifications.

 

College Wifi

Details of how students can get onto Eduroam are found here:

https://eduroam.cambria.ac.uk/?page_id=2

 

EBS On Track

It would be helpful if all students could log on in Induction (or in the first week of term) and check their details on their student ILP tool called OnTrack

 

 

 

Logging On to College Computers 

Student username: Student ID number on ID card

Password: three letters on ID card, plus date of birth (e.g. twd25/08/1998)

 

Logging On to Google

Username: email address on Student ID card

Password: as above

 

Logging On Out of College:

To access many of our sites you can go to the Cambria website which has a student intranet page.

https://www.cambria.ac.uk/student-intranet/

 

Student Code of Conduct and Equality and Diversity

Make sure that all learners at College understand the student code of conduct. At this point you may also like to explore what is and isn't acceptable behaviour at College, and get students involved in discussing good and bad behaviours for learning and the difference between school and college.

 

All learners are expected to:

  • Attend all personal tutorial sessions. Attendance is compulsory and monitored.

  • Be punctual

  • Be prepared to honestly discuss your progress

  • Be prepared to talk to your tutor about issues which may be affecting your College life as soon as they arise

  • Take part in tutorial activities

 

Learners need to understand that their personal tutor will have to comment on these things in any reference required for employment or further learning.

 

This would also be a good time to explore the equality and diversity charter and get students to consider what it means to them as students, and what the College expects of them in their treatment of others.

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Find Out More Activities

In this section, we ask you to get learners finding out more about each other and also for you to find out about them. You wil start off with some more icebreakers to get learners finding out more about each other. There is a choice of these below, but feel free to find your own.

Then you will move into Proportal.

Building Aspirations

In this section of induction, please do talk to learners about where the course can lead to. Bring in information about ex students and their progress and the types of careers and courses that learners can go on to if they do well in the course. Talk about expectations and what makes effective learners. Try to find out more about what each learner in your class would like to do and try to get them to think big and believe that they can achieve if they work hard and try to achieve.

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Barriers to Learning

Discuss what could be the main barriers to achieving. These include work related and personal and social barriers. Explain about how Student Services and Study Skills can help learners.

  • Student Services - offering support on a range of issues from transport, finances, housing, health, sexual health, counselling and many other things, including any bullying or safeguarding issues which they wish to discuss. 

  • Study Skills - support and help with learning for learners with their studying. Support is available for all learners and especially those with identified support needs, including dyslexia. 

 

EBS On Track

If you can get chromebooks or access to a computer, this is an ideal time for students to begin to complete all the elements of their Learner ILP. We need them to understand what they can see on On Track, including their attendance and their targets. You need to be able to explain how they can keep a track of their learning and to set targets for themselves. Teachers will also be using their version of the tool to set targets for learners and monitor their progresss. Teachers can use the tool to add comments, both positive and concerns and to write reports. Records of one to one meetings will be in here too.

 

 

All learners need to consider the following, and have completed their learner ILP by week 3:

  • Previous achievements and hope for this course

  • Goals

  • Strengths and Development

  • Plans after their course

  • Write their first SMART target

By week three, targets in this section should be completed relating to their initial diagnostic assessments in literacy and numeracy.

 

 

 

Explore Activities

 

This is the final part of Induction Day and in this learners will learn more about what they can access beyond just their classes.

Use the time to explore the site, to talk about the clubs, activities and groups they can join on the site. 

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There's a variety of groups just waiting for you and, if by chance you don’t happen to find an one for you, why not LEAD an activity?!

With all the support you need from Student Voice, you can start a club or organisation to socialise with students of similar interests, which will also act a great way to add to your personal statement- (winner!)

 

Simply come along to any of our Induction fairs to find out more, or contact your Learner Engagement Officer, Rosie Burt on rosie.burt@cambria.ac.uk or via 07714563652

 

Get all learners who use facebook to like our Cambria+ site.

This is the website which we use to share all information for students about events, activities and opportunities.

 

https://www.facebook.com/cambriaplus

 

 

Digital Badges

Collect Coleg Cambria digital badges to enhance your CV.  Digital badges will be used for rewarding excellent attendance, progress and effort.  You can also earn a badge if you are a class rep,  or undertake any sporting, or extracurricular activities.

 

When you leave you can backpack your digital badges and take them with you.  Coleg Cambria badges are fully integrated with Open Badges, which allows you to share your badges anywhere on the web. Open Badges gives you complete control over your own achievements by allowing you to organise and display your badges in the places that matter to you.

http://moodle.cambria.ac.uk

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