Physics Department Weeks 8-10 activities in term 3 What kind of activities are available? Consolidation/Preparation for next year Transferable skills activities.

Physics DepartmentWeeks 8-10 activities in term 3

What kind of activities are available?

• Consolidation/Preparation for next year

• Transferable skills activities

• Careers/employability activities

(Can’t form part of formal assessment )

Physics DepartmentWeeks 8-10 activities in term 3

1st Year cohort 2010/11 Pre-sessional Maths (3 hours in week 8)

Physics DepartmentWeeks 8-10 activities in term 3

1st Year cohort 2010/11

Transferable skills training (1 hour in week 9)

Pre-sessional Maths (3 hours in week 8)

How to deliver a presentation

How to create a presentation

How to handle nerves

How to work in a team

Physics DepartmentWeeks 8-10 activities in term 3

1st Year cohort 2010/11

Thinking like a Physicist challenge (1 hour in week 9)

Pre-sessional Maths (3 hours in week 8)

Transferable skills training (1 hour in week 9)

Thinking like a Physicist challenge

Physics DepartmentWeeks 8-10 activities in term 3

1st Year cohort 2010/11

Thinking like a Physicist challenge (1 hour in week 9)

Pre-sessional Maths (3 hours in week 8)

Transferable skills training (1 hour in week 9)

• Students split into teams of five and asked to answer one question in

detail and have a go at the others.

Physics DepartmentWeeks 8-10 activities in term 3

1st Year cohort 2010/11

Conference (5 hours in week 10)

• Each team answers their question within a 10 minute presentation.

• Audience discusses approach.

• Prize for best two individuals (British Science Festival tickets).

Pre-sessional Maths (3 hours in week 8)

Transferable skills training (1 hour in week 9)

Thinking like a Physicist (1 hour in week 9)

130 students

111 students

113 students

102 students

68 students

Physics DepartmentWeeks 8-10 activities in term 3

2nd Year cohort 2011/12 Career development activities in weeks 8 and 9

• Using the Employability Tutorial as the framework and lectures to summarise and consolidate material.

Physics DepartmentWeeks 8-10 activities in term 3

2nd Year cohort 2011/12 Career development activities in weeks 8 and 9

• Using the Employability Tutorial as the framework and lectures to summarise and consolidate material.

Teamwork and leadership activities in weeks 9 and 10• To provide basic exposure to leadership activities. • To identify personal strengths.

Behaviour % of time spent on each behaviour Ideally the % of time you would devote to each behaviour

Informing

Directing

Clarifying

Persuading

Collaborating

Envisioning

Reflecting

Observing

Disciplining

Resolving

Praising