Hello everybody! welcome back, I hope you have all had a good break. I just want to explain what your individual Blogs are to be used for. They are a place for you to publish your responses to the tasks I will be setting for you from this blog. For instance, your next “assignment” (after setting up your Blog) is to go to this link and look at the Learner Needs Analysis (LNA) template. This is my first attempt at a LNA template and it is untested at present. In your Blogs I would like you to comment on the appropriateness of these questions and how, when and if you would ask them. Do you have any suggestions as to how this questionnaire could be improved. Post your ideas in your Blog and we can all look and comment. When you next meet your student (or meet for the first time) I would like you to use this LNA template (or a better one that you have adapted) and send me an electronic or hard copy. Also post to your Blog any feedback from your students about how they felt about all or any of these questions.
Looking forward to seeing all your Blogs!
Helen
Hi
I agree with Mark concerning the Learning Needs Analysis form.
In general I thought the questions were relevent to finding out what the learning needs of the students are and the best ways to get the most out of the peer tutoring sessions.
Like Mark, I also don’t think that knowing the highest qualification of each student is relevent to learning needs as it does not necessarily indicate their strengths, weaknesses or ability regarding the subject we are tutoring them in. This information may also come up incidentally in the course of tutoring.
I re-jigged the format of my Learning Needs Analysis before I printed it out so that there is room for answers under each question and I can use one form for each student.
Cheers, Cuinna
PS Did I submit this in the right place? – still a bit lost on the website:-)
Hi Cuinna,
yeah its ok to put your comment here, though I really meant you to post it to your blog. Your blog is where I want the record of your work to be. But either way I’ll find it. When you say you re-jigged the template – does this mean you edited it in the wiki?