- A tutorial is a 1-hour lesson given by tutors/program leaders to address course issues and provide pastoral support. These lessons are inspected by Ofsted and funded/required hours. - Tutorials cover course topics, life skills lessons, and help tutors and students get to know each other. Guest speakers can also be included. - Various college staff are available for student support. Lead tutors' role is to support tutors with tutorial materials and guidance. - Tutorial materials and resources are available for tutors on the college intranet. Personal learning plans (PLPs) are also used to set student targets and monitor progress.

1. Tutoring your students
Kirsty Durman

2. What is a tutorial?
• A tutorial is an hour lesson given to programme
leaders to address issues on the course and to
deliver lessons on a pastoral level.
• These lessons are inspected during Ofsted and the
college is given funding and hours for this.

3. What do you cover in this lesson?
• Discuss course related issues.
• Deliver lessons that embed every child matters to
broaden the student experience.
• Help tutor and students get to know each other
and work as a team.
• Can be utilised for guest speakers from
connexions, sex sense, higher education speakers
or course related speakers.

4. Tutorial Team
• Helen Brennan- Head of Student Support (023
9232 8950)
• Rebecca Feek (023 9272 8298)& Karen Mcfarlane
(023 9232 8953)- College Counsellors
• Kirsty Durman (023 9272 8289) – Lead Tutor
• Jocelyne O’Brien & Marie Mcgee(023 9232 8952)-
College Careers Advisors

5. Lead Tutors
• Our job role is to support tutors with the tutorial
programme.
• Lesson ideas and resources on My Course for
tutors to access for tutorial lesson.
• To give guidance on the role of a tutor (programme
leader).

6. Discussion
• In groups I want you to discuss the obstacles you
have when delivering tutorial lessons.
• What are the general responses from the students
to tutorial lessons?
• How you find delivering tutorials?
• What you think of the materials provided?

7. Vocational Tutorial Programme
• This can be accessed via My Course and has a
variety of lesson plans and resources for each
term to assist you with the delivery of tutorial
lessons.
• Tutorial materials can also be found on the S drive
– S Drive// 08 All Staff Access/ Tutorial

8. PLP’s
• Electronic personal learning plans put in place to
set students target and to track individual student
progress.
• Deadlines are set throughout the year for you to sit
with your students on one to one to discuss, set
and monitor targets.

9. What are the benefits
• P.L.P’s are linked with EBS to share personal
details, qualifications on entry, monitor attendance
via E registers.
• Students can access their P.L.Ps via my course.
• Flexible review dates
• Less paperwork
• All tutors on the programme will be able to set
students targets

10. What do tutors have to do?
• Ensure your students have had my course training.
• All students need to be enrolled on EBS
• Remove and assign roles on my course to create
P.L.P’s
• Tutors to have had my course training.

11. Smart Targets
• An important part of the role of a tutor is to help
students complete their Personal Learning Plan
and set SMART TARGETS. Each student needs
something to aim for, a sense of direction. This
comes from setting them achievable challenges
that inspire them to progress. These targets should
be achievable by the next review date.

12. Target Setting
• In groups of three we would like you to write three
generic smart targets that could be included in a
common data base as templates for staff to use
and adapt.

13. How do we cater for E & D in our lessons?
• This can be encouraged through:
• Challenging stereotypes
• Making sure diverse imagery is used where
possible
• Class discussion
• Differentiation for individual needs of the students
• Challenging any inappropriate comments made by
students
• Addressing lateness so all students are treated
fairly.

14. Any Questions?
• Do you have any questions from todays sessions?