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Introduction to personal tutoring
Workshop details
The workshop consists of 2 x two and a half-hour sessions plus approximately one hour of pre-session work and 30 mins of post-session work. You will be required to attend both face-to-face sessions.
2025-26 dates
Fri 10 October and Tue 21 October 10.00-12.30 (in person)
Fri 28 November and Tue 16 December 10.00-12.30 (in person)
Thu 5 March and Thu 19 March 10.00-12.30 (in person)
Tue 5 May 10.00-12.30 and Tue 19 May 14.00-16.30 (in person)
Upon completion of this workshop, participants will have:
- Agreed expectations and established early rapport to facilitate a supportive tutor-tutee relationship;
- Identified and responded to the range of reasons why tutees seek a personal tutor's help;
- Used appropriate strategies to support and help to develop tutees;
- Recognised the sources of support and development for students and personal tutors at Imperial;
- Responded to the needs and expectations of students from a variety of educational and cultural backgrounds and/or a range of disabilities;
- Evaluated the issues surrounding confidentiality and disclosure.
Tutors
Dr Kate Ippolito and Ms Julia Hutchinson
Administrative Enquiries
Su Beasley edudevcourses@ic.ac.uk
Who should attend?
Designed for staff who are (or will soon be) personal tutors, this workshop helps participants to equip themselves for this important role and engages them with information and techniques to support and develop their tutees. There are opportunities for participants to discuss issues of particular interest or concern. To allow you to develop and apply new approaches to everyday practice, this workshop consists of 2 x two and a half-hour sessions, plus approximately one hour of pre-session work and one hour of between session work. You should attend both sessions.
Key areas
- Understanding the role of the Personal Tutor at Imperial
- The importance of making and maintaining connection with your tutees
- Who are your tutees and what might they want your help with?
- Conversational strategies for supporting and developing students
- Sources of support and development for students and personal tutors at Imperial
- Responding to the academic and well-being related needs of students, including those from different cultural backgrounds and with a range of disabilities
- Managing confidentiality and disclosure
Imperial STAR Framework
This workshop is particularly suitable for those seeking recognition at D1 or D2 level of the Imperial STAR Framework. It addresses the following dimensions of the Professional Standards Framework (PSF 2023): A2, A4, K2, K3, V1, V2, V4, V5.
Further resources
Imperial's online Personal Tutor's Guide has been developed to complement this workshop and to provide an up-to-date, one-stop source of information for Imperial’s many Personal Tutors. Its purpose is:
- To bring together the information, contacts and resources that personal tutors find useful when developing and supporting tutees.
- To orientate and inform those new to personal tutoring at Imperial.
- To highlight new information and guidance to experienced personal tutors.
Each section of the guide provides guidance, tips and links, carefully put together to give you the information you need as quickly and easily as possible.
If you have any questions about the guide, please contact Dr Kate Ippolito.
