Bridging the gap
Kristy Turner suggests how teachers can help students make a smooth transition from school to university based education
There is increasing focus on issues of transition in universities, and rightly so. For too long, universities have taken little notice of the knowledge and skills their students have or have not developed in school and risked leaving parts of their cohort behind or even bored by repeated content.
I work on both sides of this divide and in the fight to reclaim our profession from those pressures I believe teachers have a much greater part to play in easing transition to further study.
Kristy Turner suggests ways to support this transition, from teaching note taking skills and how to locate information in text books to changing group dynamics and making deadlines rigid, she explains why everyone working with students in the last years of secondary school can have a part to play.
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