Preparation for Tertiary Success (PTS)

Michaela Wilkes and the PTS team

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PTS new approach

Using Learning Power as our lever

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Previous PTSPreparation for Tertiary Study

Aim: to assist students to learn academic skills and successfully transition to the university and subject of their choice

Focus on academic skills which students needed to master

Large attrition rate Number of students successfully completing

the course each semester: 1 or 2

What are their needs?

What are their motivations for study?

What skills and knowledge do they bring to the situation?

What do they need to learn so they can achieve their dreams?

Who are our students?

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Teaching and Learning kit bag

ELLIEffective Lifelong Learning

4MAT

Bothways

8 learning design questions

Art therapy

Brain theory

ESL

Academic skills

Adult learning principles

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New PTS Course

1. PTS001 Learning Identity 2. PTS002 Strength & Success3. PTS003 Learning in Communities4. PTS004 Discipline Inquiry5. PTS005 Reading & Reflection 6. PTS006 Ways of Knowing7. PTS007 Introduction to Mathematics8. PTS009 Introduction to Science9. PTS010 Inquiry Project10. PTS011 Advanced Mathematics

PTS001 Learning Identity

• Identify your own learning behaviours

• Recognise successful learning behaviours

• Become a lifelong learner

PTS002 Strength & Success

• Identify Indigenous role models of strength & success

• What is success?

• What does it mean to be strong? To be resilient?

PTS003 Learning in Communities• When do you learn in groups?

• What are learning relationships?

• As part of a group, what are the values, language and behaviours of successful learning?

• How does intergenerational learning occur in Indigenous contexts?

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4MAT as a unit/lesson design tool

Perform / Celebrate / Integrate

Coaching

Communication Forum Refining your work

Learning Power – til now

Discussion – post it’s

Your project Assignments Assessments

Skills practise

Learning Power - future

Reading & Writing Learning Power Managing my learning Inquiry ICT & tools

What’s it

going

to take?

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Valuing what the students bring as Indigenous learners

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Realisations about successWe are all successful learners

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Art therapies, brain theory, symbols

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It’s a ‘learning journey’ for us all!ELLI gives a shared language and understanding of the seven learning dimensions• Students

- way to deal with negative self talk- strategies to move forward using learning strengths- lecturers & students participate in this conversation

• Lecturers - conversations with colleagues about creative & enabling ways to support students usingdimensions

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Progress this Year 4 students successfully completed in semester 1, 2012

10-15 students expected to complete in semester 2, 2012

Degree courses PTS students have transitioned into:Bachelor of CommerceBachelor of ScienceBachelor of Teaching & LearningBachelor of Land & Sea ManagementBachelor of LawBachelor of Language & Linguistics

34% growth in student numbers this semester

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Thank you from PTS!

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References

Many of the images used in this presentation have been created by the PTS classes of 2011 and 2012. They have been photographed by Michaela Wilkes and Marilynn Willis.Talent release forms completed by all students, providing permissions for art work to be shared.

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