UPCSE PERSONAL TUTORIAL PLANNER AND RECORD OF REFLECTION 2014-2015
I UNDERSTAND THAT MY PERSONAL TUTORIAL IS A COMPULSORY PART OF THE UPC COURSE. IN ORDER TO MAKE THE MOST OF THIS ONE-TO-ONE HELP, I AGREE
TO ACTIVELY PARTICIPATE IN EVERY TUTORIAL. EACH WEEK I WILL LOOK AT THE SUGGESTED QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION COLUMN AND BE PREPARED TO DISCUSS
MY ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS AND ANY OTHER RELATED QUESTIONS WHICH MIGHT EMERGE DURING THE TUTORIAL. I AGREE TO COMPLETE THE FINAL
COLUMN IN RESPONSE TO THE TUTORIAL DISCUSSION, AS AND WHEN NECESSARY. IN TERMS 2 & 3, THESE QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION WILL COME FROM ME MORE
THAN FROM MY TUTOR.
TERM 1
Week
General Focus
Getting to know each other
Checking SAC induction quiz
2
Suggested questions for reflection
1. How will this university environment be different from when I
was at secondary school?
2. What specific language areas, e.g. reading, writing, grammar,
vocabulary, do I need to improve the most?
3. How am I preparing myself academically for the year ahead?
4. What am I uncertain about most at this early stage?
Queries on settling in
Student Induction Questionnaire
Think about degree choices
3
1. Why did I choose to study in the UK and not in my own
country?
2. How has this experience been so far?
3. What is it about my subject that really interests me?
4. How did my interest in this subject emerge?
My response and/or action I will take
Planning first draft of Personal
Statement
Queries on Preparatory Project
4
5
1 What are my plans when I have completed my degree?
2. How does studying in the UK help me achieve these aims?
3. What skills and/or qualities can I offer my future department?
Can I give concrete examples?
4. What are the reasons for my preparatory project choice?
Feedback on first draft of Personal
Statement
1. How much progress am I making in those language
improvements that I identified in Week 2?
Check preparation for Plagiarism &
Referencing Test
2. How well am I adapting to the UCL university environment?
Agree study plan for Reading
Week
4. What improvements can I make to how I study in the second
half of the term?
3. What are my aims for Reading Week?
NB Tutor provides feedback on two drafts
only
6
READING WEEK
General queries on Preparatory
Project before submission
1. How successful was I in achieving my Reading Week aims?
Why / why not?
2. Am I making an attempt at speaking English outside of the
classroom? Why / why not?
7
3. What changes am I making to how I study?
Check submission of Preparatory
project
Second draft of Personal
Statement
1. How satisfied am I with my participation in class?
2. What difficulties am I having with drafting my Personal
Statement?
8
Feedback on second draft of
Personal Statement
Check preparation for Listening
and Reading tasks
9
Check preparation for Recorded
Seminars
1. How well have I answered my research question?
2. How satisfied am I with my sources and that I managed to
avoid plagiarism?
3. What do I know about the reading task?
4. How am I preparing for the end of term tests
5. How ready am I for the recorded seminars
Reflection on Term 1
Final check on Personal Statement
as required
Check submission of UCAS
application
10
Agree study plan for Christmas
break
NB Tutor provides feedback on two drafts
only
1. How successful was I in managing my time?
2. How useful have tutorials been for me? Could I have done
more to make them more so?
3. Which areas identified in Week 2 did I improve the most?
4. What did I learn about myself as a learner?
TERM 2
Week
1
General Focus
Suggested questions for reflection
Term 1 Progress Report
1. What are my emotions at this time? Why do I feel this way?
Term 1 test results (if available) for
elective modules
2. How did I progress in Term 1? Why?
Agree Action Plan for Term 2
4. What’s going to be different this term?
3. What am I most/least looking forward to this term? Why?
Check Prep Project submission
Meet new tutor
1. What project topics am I considering? Why?
Reflection on Preparatory Project
2. What aspect of the Preparatory Project’s research process
was most difficult for me?
Discuss Term 2 Action Plan
2
Discuss ideas for Science and
Society project
3. Why did I choose to highlight these particular points in my
action plan?
My response and/or action I will take
Agree title of Research Project
Bring possible sources
2. What’s my evaluation of the sources I’ve found so far?
3. What else do I need to do?
3
Bring all Research Project sources
1. What did I learn from the Preparatory Project that I am
applying to my Research project?
Queries on Research Project
Outline and draft
2. How am I choosing which sources to use?
3. Am I finding writing an outline easier or more difficult than last
time?
4
Check submission of Research
Project Outline
Feedback on project outline
5
1. What have I done so far in preparation for the Research
Project?
Final selection of sources
1. How have I been progressing in my action plan points?
2. What have I done in preparation for the Research Project?
3. How have I arrived at this selection of sources?
4. What else do I need to do?
Agree study plan for Reading
Week
1. With which aspects of my project and sources am I least /
most satisfied?
Queries on Research Project draft
& Sources & Evaluation
2. What four questions about how I could improve my project
would I like to ask my tutor?
6
3. What will I be doing over reading week?
4.
7
READING WEEK
Check submission of Research
Project First Draft & Sources &
Evaluation
Queries on UCAS offers
8
Queries on Poster & Poster
Presentation
Submission of Posters
Queries on Poster Presentations
9
Start thinking about EAP
Presentation topic
1. How will giving a Poster Presentation help me with my final
draft?
I will write my own reflective questions and discuss
them with my personal tutor.
2. With which aspects of my Project and sources am I least /
most satisfied? Why ?
3.
4.
1. What have I been learning about posters and presentation
that will help me in the future
2. What thoughts have I had about EAP Presentation topic
3.
4.
I will write my own reflective questions and discuss
them with my personal tutor.
Poster Presentations
Agree EAP Presentation topic/title
I will write my own reflective questions and discuss
them with my personal tutor.
2. What else do I need to do?
3.
10
11
1. What do I need to do now in order to be able to complete my
EAP Presentation proposal form?
4.
Mock Exams
1. What have I learnt about writing projects
Feedback on Research Project
draft
2. Is my Presentation proposal realistic/complete
Agree EAP Presentation Proposal
4.
Agree plan for Easter break
5.
3. What else do I need to do?
I will write my own reflective questions and discuss
them with my personal tutor.
TERM 3
Week
General Focus
Check Research Project
submission
Preparation for Term 3
1
Suggested questions for reflection
1. What do I need to do to be fully prepared for my practice EAP
Presentation next week?
My response and/or action I will take
I will write my own reflective questions and discuss
them with my personal tutor.
2. What else do I need to do?
3. How do I feel now about my Research Project
Queries on EAP Presentation and
outline
4.
5.
Practice EAP Presentation
1. What do I need to change for my final EAP Presentation?
2.
3.
2
4.
NB The 30-minute practice is in lieu of the
tutorial
I will write my own reflective questions and discuss
them with my personal tutor.
EAP Presentation
1.
Queries on Viva and EAP exams
2.
Plans for remainder of term
3
I will write my own reflective questions and discuss
them with my personal tutor.
3.
4.
NB 10-minute tutorial
Final Queries on Viva and EAP
exams
1.
2.
Goodbyes
3.
4
4.
NB Last tutorial
I will write my own reflective questions and discuss
them with my personal tutor.