Self Learning Programme
Why do we need self learning and what is self learning?
Self learning was created to get students to be more independent, hard working and able to solve problems. The primary role for self learning can be summarized as “helping students manufacture their own body of knowledge by allowing them to experience learning through task based activities.”
As mentioned earlier, self learning was a major problem last semester, and this was not due to anyone in particular. In fact Ali and Yahya worked extremely hard in making self learning a success. Based upon your feedback, self learning has been redesigned. What this means is that every student has to do an hour of self learning a week with his teacher in class.
For AM classes, this hour will be every Tuesday from 11.00-12.00 and for PM students, every Tuesday from 1.40-2.40. This will count towards the final grade of each student and is not to be confused with the general SL that carries no marks.
Every week teachers will be sent clearly outlined tasks to be completed by students. Fortnightly, teachers will fill out the Bi-Weekly Report and hand it in to the Self Learning Office on Saturday. This report lets us know what you have done in class and who was absent from self learning.
Self learning will start on Tuesday 16th March 2009.
Majid Chaudry
Student Services Coordinator
This week's activities
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Week 7 - 21/4/09
Please make sure that you have your Self Learning folders with you on Tuesday 21st April 2009 so that your teachers can grade them.
The assignments that you should have in your folder are:
Activity Log OR Semester Plan
Weekly Timetable
Summary of News Story OR ONE activity from 'The Flying Car'
Week 4 - 31/3/09
The Objectives of this week's Self learning are to get students used to:
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The concept of note taking
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Inferring meaning from context
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Summarising a long text
LEVELS 1, 2 & 3
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Students will listen to a news report.
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Students will make notes about the news article.
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Students will then summarise the news article in one paragraph.
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For homework students will listen to a news story on NPR News (103.1 FM) or choose a news story from CNN / BBC News 24 in groups to summarise in week 5.
LEVELS 4 & 5
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Students will listen to a news report.
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Students will make notes about the news article.
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Students will then summarise the news article in two paragraphs.
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For homework students will listen to a news story on NPR News (103.1 FM) or choose a news story from CNN / BBC News 24 in groups to summarise in week 5.
Current activities
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IELTS surgery hours
Come to the the Student Access Centre for an opportunity to have a one-to-one session, which is not always possible for you in the classroom.
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Time |
Saturday |
Sunday |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
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11.15
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12.10 |
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Doug Cullen and Nolan Richardson |
Doug Cullen and Nolan Richardson |
Doug Cullen and Nolan Richardson |
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12.35
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1.30 |
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David Burns, John Brooks and Robert Barron |
David Burns, John Brooks and Robert Barron |
David Burns, John Brooks and Robert Barron |
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