Study Skills

What are study skills - the role of a study skills tutor

Teaching methods and strategies to individual students' needs, using methodologies such as ADSHE's seven principles or VARK multi-modal sensory working.

What you can expect from your NMH study skills tutor

Areas covered in working relationship where the focus is on one of the areas, but not limited to, that need attention for individual that have have been identified via a study skills audit. This could be:

1. Understanding different learning styles
2. Managing learning development
   • Dealing with communication barriers, confidence, stress management and conflict
   • Working to deadlines
   • Setting goals
3. Offering time management solutions - planning, time management and the use of study aids to get work done and become academically competent
   • Planning the use of mind maps
   • Exploring the different apps available for scheduling
   • Dealing with procrastination, spending too much time on one area of personal life or study, identifying priorities
4. Recording and organising information
   • Finding and documenting material and academic writing
   • Library support
   • Reading academic texts
   • Exam/report structuring and writing
   • Taking notes from lectures and other sources
   • Writing academically
   • Paraphrasing
   • Referencing
5. Communication skills
   • Working academically with different delivery methods for assessments
     • Presentations
     • Viva
     • Posters
     • Leaflets
     • Working in teams
6. Exam preparation - understanding exams and how to succeed in them
   • Organisation and planning
   • Research techniques
   • Memory aids
7. Getting ready for essay and other assessment work
   • Managing data/research
   • Organisation and Planning
   • Research techniques
   • Memory aids
8. Information Technology to support academic learning
   • Navigating the different apps available
     • Wellness
     • Reference and research
     • Notetaking and recording
     • Paraphrasing
     • Organisation of information
     • Making materials
     • Exams
     • Editing
   • Working with LLM and developing the skill of promote writing through established techniques

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