A Vision for Student Engagement at my College

A Participatory Workshop

Welcome & Housekeeping

My name is:

The toilets are:

The wifi is:

If the fire alarm rings:

Session Overview

Today we are trying to find out what is important to you with respect to how the college can best engage with its students, and make students partners in the college community.

We will be looking at what our values are how these inform behaviours, and looking at how that plays out in the college. We will be looking what sort of activities the college can carry out to reinforce these values and behaviours.

Ground Rules & Car Park

• Let’s set the tone for today’s activities• What we can and can’t cover – the car park• Ground rules for the session – first one: this is

confidential, contributions will not be associated to people in the report

Let’s get physical

• Student reps effectively represent the student body’s ‘voice’

• Student reps should receive payment

• Lecturers involve us in the process of making decisions that affect us

• Students are ‘consumers’

• I feel a sense of ‘belonging’ to the College community

Values

What do values influence?

Organisational example

Activity: What are your values?

Activity: What behaviours at college arise from these values?

Time for a break

Why we’re here…

Your college is writing/reviewing its student engagement strategy and wants your input.

…but what is a student engagement strategy anyway?

Have a look at a quick outline…

What do the college mean by “student engagement”

• Student Engagement is a ‘catch all’ term for the various opportunities, activities and ways of doing things at college that lead to students feeling that they are an empowered & equal member of the college community, that they are able to make change and are able to learn effectively and successfully.

• So a student engagement strategy will look at what the college is doing to ensure this outcome and how this is best done.

Activity: Pitching a vision for student engagement at your college

• Work in groups• Take a sheet of flip chart• Put your college in a cloud in the middle• Using the values you think are core to the

college, mindmap some of the activities and behaviours that might arise, for example:

Example of a vision page:

TSEP College collaboration

Space for reading and study groups

Photography students shoot the fashion students final show

Buddy schemes – final years mentor 1st years

Pitch your vision!

Thank you

Your contributions will be put together to help the college create a strategy for student engagement and will ultimately help make your college a better place for you and future learners.Your participation is greatly appreciated, thank you.