W7: Supporting Student Transitions
Workshop 7: Supporting Student Transitions
- Workshop outline
This workshop acknowledges that transitions are a normal part of university life which may not be problematic for some students, but for others impact directly on their studies and well-being. It sets out to explore transitions in the broadest of terms, i.e. not just between levels of study. It is action focused, posing the question what Level Leaders can do to support student transitions. IT focusses on sharing ideas about what works, what doesn’t and how you know.
Key aims
- To facilitate critical reflection on student transitions
- Into University,
- Between academic levels of study,
- Between practice and the HE setting, and
- Out from the University or into further study.
- To facilitate critical reflection on student transitions
- Pre-workshop activities
- Pre-workshop activity 1: Resources for students
- Familiarise yourself with resources such as the below and reflect on how these can be used for successfully supporting student transitions into, within and out of Solent University.
- Pre-workshop 2: Student transitions in higher education
- Read section 4.3. of this publication titled 'Student transitions in higher education' by O'Donnell et al. (2016) (4 pages), and be ready to discuss its content.
- Workshop resources
- Workshop activity 1: Examples
- Workshop activity 3: Repository of good practices