Moving from high school to post-secondary studies can be a challenge for even the most accomplished students. They need to adjust quickly to the vastly different expectations of post-secondary schedules and instructors.
As a three-time university student, a former professor, and an instructor of teaching strategies to university professors, I can assist new university students to overcome issues in many of the areas that could hamper their ability to be successful, because I’ve experienced and overcome all of them myself:
- Required first year university English courses, with more sophisticated expectations for reading and writing
- Subject area reading, such as textbook chapter and articles
- Subject area writing, in which they must summarize an author’s perspective, and complement it with one of their own
- Time management as they navigate a highly compressed university term, and juggle the requirements of multiple courses, varsity sports, part time jobs and/or living away from home.
- The expectations for independent learning, study, and assignment completion
- The potential of becoming overwhelmed academically, mentally or emotionally, and the reluctance to ask for assistance
Pamela Young: High School Language Arts and Post Secondary Transitions Coach 