Keep this sheet in the front of your black portfolio binder so that you can check, before each required meeting with your tutor, that you have completed all the necessary forms.
You must take your portfolio binder and contents to each required meeting with your personal tutor so that all the relevant information is available. It is your responsibility to ensure that you keep all the required content in your portfolio so that it can be referred to whenever it is needed.
Required content Required when
Skills Assessment (completed)
Module registration & timetable (completed)
1 st tutorial – Portfolio Week -November
10 or 14 th , 2008
1 ST COMPULSORY MEETING – mark of 0% will be awarded to
JXH1021 Academic Skills if you do not attend
1 st tutorial-as above
Preparation for tutorial form - Page 1(completed) 1 st tutorial – as above
Preparation for tutorial form– Page 1 & 2 (completed) 2 nd tutorial – mid Feb. 2009 TBS
2 nd COMPULSORY MEETING
Other content
You may keep other information in your portfolio if you wish (and are advised to do so!). You may achieve awards and qualifications that will contribute towards your degree and you keep the certificate in your portfolio. There may be information about careers that you want to discuss with your tutor, a letter of recommendation from an employer or a copy of your CV. You should feel able to use the portfolio as a folder that demonstrates your development during your undergraduate studies, as long as it also contains the required information.
You are advised not to keep sensitive, personal details in your portfolio, even if you have discussed them with your tutor. Such information might not be safe from public scrutiny.
7 October 2008

You are expected to take the opportunity to see your tutor at the points indicated below during your first year. Your tutor is available for less formal meetings whenever you feel you need to talk to him or her. It is your responsibility to make sure that you attend the scheduled meetings. If you are registered for the JXH1021 Academic Skills
Module if you not attend these meetings you will receive 0% in this module.
You should sign up for a suitable tutorial time on your tutor’s weekly tutorial sheet (usually on the tutor’s office door) when requested to do so or when you want to have a meeting .
At most formal meetings there will be a report and action plan agreed by you and your tutor which will be filed by both of you. You should come to these meetings with your own agenda as well as that detailed below. Informal meetings will be requested by you when you have something to discuss.
Whenever a tutorial has been arranged (either by you or by your tutor) you should make a careful note of the time so that you do not miss the appointment. If you are going to be late or are unable to make the meeting it is important that you inform your tutor or contact the General Office and leave a message. As tutors we will be keeping careful records of the meetings that we have (or don’t have!) with you.
Scheduled meetings
Welcome Week-Sept. 22, 2008
Welcome Week-Sept. 23, 2008
Portfolio Week - November 10 th or 14 th
2008
Semester 2 ( mid-February, 2009) after exam results are released
Towards the end of Semester 2
(April/May, 2009)
Broad agenda for the meeting
Module choices-group session
1:1 tutorial – answer queries/concerns
Discuss progress, draw up action plan. Go over
Portfolio papers from Welcome Week.
COMPULSORY – mark of 0% awarded to
JXH1021 Academic Skills if you do not attend.
To discuss overall progress following Semester 1 module results and to plan for progress in Semester
2. COMPULSORY.
TBS
Sign Tutee Report Forms if you had Mitigating
Circumstances. TBS
7 October 2008

Level 1 Portfolio: registration & timetable
List all the modules (names and codes) you are studying in both semesters. Complete the timetable over the page for both semesters. Take this information in your portfolio to your next meeting with your personal tutor which is during Portfolio Week – November 10 or 14,
2008.
Semester 1 name of module code
Semester 2 name of module code

Level 1 Portfolio:
Semester 1
Monday
9-10
10-11
11-12
12-1
1-2
2-3
3-4
4-5
Semester 2
Monday
9-10
10-11
11-12
12-1
1-2
2-3
3-4
4-5
Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Level 1 Portfolio:
4
5
2
3
6
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To provide information for the agreed report and action plan in your tutorial, fill in the following form before the tutorial so that you have the information ready to discuss with your tutor. Make a note (to remind yourself) of any questions or issues that you want to raise that are not covered elsewhere.
Study time
What work have you done outside formal timetabled time (e.g. reading, library searches, computing, group work, assignment preparation…)?
Sem. 1 Module name/code Type of work
1
Time Management
Work
What deadlines do you have to meet in the next month or so? List the work & submission date.
(This may be formative or summative work, group work, presentations etc.)
To be completed by…

Level 1 Portfolio:
2
3
To provide information for the agreed report and action plan in your tutorial, fill in the following form before the tutorial so that you have the information ready to discuss with your tutor. Make a note (to remind yourself) of any questions or issues that you want to raise that are not covered elsewhere.
Study time
What work have you done outside formal timetabled time (e.g. reading, library searches, computing, group work, assignment preparation…)?
Sem. 2 Module name/code Type of work
1
4
5
6
Time Management
Work
What deadlines do you have to meet in the next month or so? List the work & submission date.
(This may be formative or summative work, group work, presentations etc.)
To be completed by…

Level 1 Portfolio:
Monitoring Progress
Are you doing as well as expected? Are you doing as well as you wanted?
How do you know that your progress is satisfactory? List some examples.
(E.g. you may have been given some feedback by friends or tutors or you may have used self-assessment to recognise whether or not your work is OK)
Please list here your modules and marks.
Planning for progress
Look back at what you have just said about progress so far.
What, in particular, will you work on in order to make better progress in your studies?
(E.g. time management, writing skills, data handling, note taking….)
What are your particular study/academic strengths?
Questions/issues for your tutorial

Level 1 Portfolio:
This questionnaire is to help you identify the sorts of skills, which are useful during your time at
University. By assessing your present skill level you can, with help from someone who knows about the demands of degree work, plan more effectively for progress. Think about yourself in an educational setting and score your skills in relation to that situation.
For each skill, tick the appropriate box to record your feelings about your present skill level and then the box which indicates how important that skill is to you.
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ORAL - ability to communicate effectively on a one-to-one basis
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ORAL PRESENTATIONS - ability to present ideas orally to an audience; to discuss and argue a case
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WRITTEN - well constructed and grammatically accurate essays; reports, the right style for the occasion
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NUMERACY - sufficient ability to manipulate numbers where necessary
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KEYBOARD SKILLS – ability to use a typewriter/computer keyboard to a level sufficient for your own use
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COMPUTER LITERACY – ability to use computer applications (e.g. word processing, spreadsheets)
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INFORMATION SKILLS - ability to seek, store, retrieve, use and present information
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GROUPWORK/TEAMWORK – ability to co-operate with others and carry out a variety of roles (ideas, organisations, taskperformance) in a joint venture
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Level 1 Portfolio:
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CRITICAL/ANALYTICAL THINKING – ability to consider a range of issues, to understand them and draw upon appropriate concepts and values in arriving at a critical assessment of them
11.
PROBLEM SOLVING – ability to confront obstacles in pursuing an objective and arrive at positive ways of overcoming them
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TIME MANAGEMENT – ability to make appropriate use of your own time in managing and achieving tasks
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RATING
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This questionnaire has been adapted from various sources including versions piloted by Don Harding (SAFS) Chris
Jones (SEL) and Beth Miller (Psychology) in 1994/95. The work has been co-ordinated by the Guidance and Learner
Autonomy Project team 1994 – 1996.
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Level 1 Portfolio:
Student:
Report:
Tutor:
Signed:
Agreed Action
Student
Action Plan
Tutor
By when: By whom