Internal Training

A one day training course “Personal Tutoring” is available to staff with Personal Tutoring responsibilities and is facilitated by staff from Student Support, the Guild of Students, the Careers Advisory Service and Registry. It is designed to complement the information in this toolkit and provide a basic skills training for Personal Tutoring. Departments should ensure that staff with a responsibility for providing personal support to students have attended this course.

Student Support Services also run a broad range of short “Bite-size” courses which are relevant to members of staff who are supporting students such as:

• Introduction to Student Support: what services are available?
• Cultural Awareness
• Living with hearing loss
• When a student wants to leave University - what to do
• An outline of Specific Learning Difficulties (SpDL)
• This student worries me: what to do
• Confidentiality: what are the issues when supporting a student?
• An overview of visual impairments and the impact of sight loss
• Inclusive curriculum or integrated learning: what’s so important?
• A basic introduction to Autistic Spectrum Disorder
• Brief review of legislation, its impact on HEI services and associated responsibilities
• When it’s hard to help difficult cases
• Sharing good practice forum - Disability
• Mental health matters

For further information please contact staff.dev@aber.ac.uk or visit the web site to book onto a relevant course.