Learning at University
We have produced guidance to help you make the step up to University-standard work.
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Academic Skills Workshops
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.
Formats:
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.
Formats:
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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