Learning at University

We have produced guidance to help you make the step up to University-standard work.

 

Academic Skills Workshops

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Elevate your skills and knowledge with us!

This is a great place to start if you want to:

  • Improve your study and research skills
  • Develop your IT and digital skills
  • Focus on your maths and numeracy.

Workshops are added regularly, so keep checking back to see what's new!

Be a successful independent learner

What is covered:

  • The expectations of study at higher education level.
  • The skills needed for independent study.
  • Active participation, and control of, your learning.
  • Your responsibilities as a learner in relation to engaging with your studies online and face to face.
Formats:

Reflective practice

What is covered:

  • The benefits of regular reflective practice.
  • How it can help you to achieve academic and professional success.
  • Introduction to a range of reflective models to help strengthen your practice.
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Developing your confidence for studying at University

What is covered:

  • What academic confidence is.
  • How confident you feel with your studies right now.
  • Tips for becoming more involved in your group, classes or research.
  • Create your own action plan of strategies to try to boost your study confidence.
Formats:

Overcoming procrastination

What is covered:

  • Notice when you may be procrastinating.
  • Strategies you can use when you're procrastinating to help you get started with, or continue, your tasks.
  • Develop your own personal action plan to form a toolkit of strategies.
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Time Management

What is covered:

  • what time management is.
  • why you need to do it.
  • how to prioritise tasks.
  • time management techniques.
  • avoiding procrastination.
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Developing academic resilience

What is covered:

  • What academic resilience is.
  • How it can help you succeed.
  • How resilient you are as you begin your studies with us.
  • How to approach your studies with confidence and resilience.
Formats:

Read, take notes and use academic information

What is covered:

  • Best practice tips for getting the most out of reading for academic purposes.
  • Identifying different note-taking strategies.
  • How to use the academic information you have found in your assessments. 
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Overcoming perfectionism

What is covered:

  • How to identify perfectionism.
  • Strategies to use when you feel yourself experiencing perfectionism to help you get started with, or continue, your tasks.
  • Develop your own personal action plan to form a toolkit of strategies.
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Staying motivated for your studies

What is covered:

  • Learn strategies to help you feel motivated with your studies.
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Professional communication

What is covered:

  • When and why to use different methods of communication.
  • How to develop communication skills to use throughout your studies and future career.
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Approaching your presentation

What is covered:

  • Planning a presentation.
  • Creating good slides.
  • Delivering your presentation with confidence.
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How to benefit from feedback

What is covered:

  • How to recognise when you are receiving feedback.
  • How to use feedback to develop yourself.
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Learning at University

What is covered:

  • Understand your learning preferences.
  • The difference between surface and deep learning.
  • Different ways of thinking about and approaching your learning and how to develop a learning mindset.

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Teaching methods

What is covered:

  • The different methods of learning and teaching that will be used on your course.
  • What you need to do to prepare for taught sessions.
  • How your teaching is organised.
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Belonging at Salford: celebrating diversity

What is covered:

  • Salford's diversity ethos.
  • What to expect when you arrive.
  • Meeting new people.
  • Reaching out and finding your Salford.
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Dealing with change: wellbeing for life

What is covered:

  • The importance of balancing your physical, mental, spiritual and emotional health.
  • Develop strategies to help you balance your wellbeing.
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