Study Skills

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

Using frameworks like ADSHE's seven principles and VARK's multi-modal sensory strategies, the tutor aims to craft tailored teaching solutions, templates and resources to empower every student's unique learning journey.

What you can expect from your NMH study skills tutor

The working relationship will focus on specific areas needing attention, as identified through a study skills audit. These areas 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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