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Welcome Week

Your new Level 4 learners will have received their on-line pre-entry guest log-in to the Orientate-Apply-Connect Transition Model. Here, in the Orientate section they will have been introduced to a topic that is key to their discipline or is an area that your course team have identified as a concept that learners often struggle with. They will have experimented with this topic/concept in the Apply section, where they were asked to carry out a task(s) in their familiar home city/town surroundings, using their own experience to gain an understanding of the concept in an authentic context. And, finally in the Connect section, pre-arrival learners will have watched a short video(s), where they will have watched professional practitioners talking about what relevance the Orientate section topic/concept has in their professional day-to-day role.

The aim of the Orientate-Apply-Connect Transition Model Welcome Week (induction) - activity is to build on the pre-entry on-line learning, in order to support learner's transition into higher education and help them gain a sense of belonging to their course, peers and academic team in a discipline-specific context. It is hoped that the model will support the learner to recognise their own value by building their self-confidence in developing discipline knowledge (and applying it) from the get-go.

You can find more support for delivering your Welcome Week activities online, on the Virtual Welcome Week Helpsheet and the Welcome Week Technology Guidance Helpsheet.

Welcome Week Helpsheet.pdf

Process

The 'Orientate-Apply-Connect' model can provide structure and consistency to Welcome Week inductions, following a similar format to the Online Pre-Arrival short course.

The Orientate and Apply sections consist of activities which apply context of pre-arrival and take place both on and off campus. New students then have the opportunity to engage with professional practitioners in person, whom they get to share their outcomes from earlier tasks with. Please see the Welcome Week Three Step Process for more information

Transcript

Orientate

The first stage of the Welcome Week activity allows students to experience a 'Bite Size' element of your course through a TED- esq style talk (typical duration of 10 minutes). This will build on the online Pre-Arrival topic/theme.

The video on the left provides an insight into a TED-esk talk by Dr. Manny Madriaga, to his Education Studies students, as part of their welcome week induction.

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Apply

Here students are introduced to an authentic task where they can begin to put theory in to practice. The authentic task also allows students to consider and apply their own values and experiences of the topic surrounding the task.

The video on the left provides an insight into one student groups' journey, as part of their Education Studies course welcome week, to Castle Market.

Connect

This part of the transition model provides students with the opportunity to meet professionals or other academic staff from their discipline area. The students will discuss or present their findings from the 'Apply' part of the day to the the professional practitioner and receive formative feedback.

The 360 video on the left is an example of a student group presenting their findings back to a local professional (No transcript).

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