SayPro LEARNING SUPPORT RESOURCES

Description

These are aids to the learning process. Examples of learning support resources

1. Learning Skills Specialist: provide learners with learning support by helping them adopt new, more efficient learning strategies, based on their learning style. Individual learning skill tutorials are tailored to learner’s strengths and weaknesses, the goal being to maximize learner’s learning potential and success. Students with documented learning disabilities are eligible to use the services of the Learning Skills Specialist.

2. Tutoring

Tutoring is an academic accommodation offered to learners in order to provide additional clarification or elaboration of material presented in lectures.

3. Mentor/Tutor Program

Mentoring is offered to learners who may have difficulty adapting to a working/learning environment, or who may be struggling with general academic skills, time management or organisational skills.

4. Proofreading Service

Proofreading is offered as an accommodation to support and enable learners with diagnosed learning or vision disabilities to communicate their ideas adequately in written formats. The Learning Skills Specialist evaluates learner’s writing difficulties and will recommend the appropriate type of proofreading.

5. Other Learning Support Resources

• Computers
• Notes
• Books
• Boards
• Encyclopaedias
• Dictionaries
• Written down case studies
• Internet
• Libraries
• Personal Digital Assistants ((PDAs people use them for various reasons. Adults for example, may require a setting more like home, with easy methods to monitor their families while they learn PDAs help to draw their attention to urgent matters be it at home or at the office. So these can be allowed in a class so that the learner can get to know what’s happening at home or at work but still be present in class learning).
• Help desks
• Computer training on specific applications related to learner’s area of studies.
• CDs
• Study skills workshops and group tutorials.

Life is not static but dynamic. Therefore information and support resources should be updated to ensure relevance and currency of information. This includes regular improvement of available resources based on ongoing reviews of the effectiveness of the support services offered. For example, policies change from time to time so law books for example, must be updated to ensure relevance and currency of information. If you go to the library today, you will find a lot of books with same title but different editions; others may be written first, second or third edition. The publishers will be simply updating information to ensure its relevance.