Get Ready

Get Ready is a higher education transition programme.

About DANCOP

A flexible programme of sessions developing skills to support learners through the key transition points from post-16 education to higher education. The sessions are designed to be delivered in schools to groups of 30 learners maximum.

You can create a bespoke programme for your learners using the available sessions. Available for Years 12 and 13, and Level 3 learners.

Get Ready is a higher education transition programme.

A flexible programme of sessions developing skills to support learners through the key transition points from post-16 education to higher education. The sessions are designed to be delivered in schools to groups of 30 learners maximum.

You can create a bespoke programme for your learners using the available sessions. Available for Years 12 and 13, and Level 3 learners.

  • Academic Skills

    Learners will become familiar with higher level reading and writing skills and referencing approaches typically used at higher education.

  • Communication Skills: An Introduction

    Learners will have the opportunity to reflect on their verbal and non-verbal communication skills and complete practical activities to identify and demonstrate these. The importance of these for future education and employment pathways will be considered.

  • Communication Skills: Public Speaking and Presenting

    This can be delivered as a follow-on to the introductory communication skills session or as a stand-alone workshop. Learners will consider the nature of public speaking and explore skills for engaging with your audience and overcoming fears around presenting. There will be the opportunity to plan, practice and
    reflect on their public speaking skills.

  • Critical Thinking

    Learners will have an opportunity to reflect on and identify their own critical thinking skills and apply these in scenario-based group tasks. They will consider how they can develop and apply these skills in their studies and future pathways.

  • Finance and Budgeting

    Learners will develop crucial budgeting skills for HE and beyond and reflect on their current and future financial needs.

  • Goal Setting and Self-Efficacy

    Learners will consider and set some short, medium, and long-term goals, creating a vision board to guide them towards achieving their goals.

  • HE Pathways

    Exploring next steps for post-18 education, learners will reflect on their goals and future plans and learn about the different options available to them at HE. The session explores benefits of HE and evaluates a range of different pathways including higher and degree apprenticeships and foundation courses.

  • Reflection for Learning

    Learners will consider the benefits of reflection as part of the learning cycle and identify how to apply reflection skills in their academic studies to support and accelerate progress at level 3.

  • Resilience

    Learners will reflect upon their current resilience levels, before engaging with a range of ideas to help them develop their own resilience tool-kit.

  • Revision and Exam Preparation

    Learners will discuss how memory works and how it can be improved, explore a range of revision techniques including ‘The Story Method’ and discuss the importance of managing time and space in the run up to exams.

  • Time Management

    Learners will begin to identify the need for prioritisation of tasks to enable effective time management, before discovering some time management techniques.

If this programme or any of our sessions is of interest, please contact your DANCOP area team or reach out to dancop@derby.ac.uk to discuss further.

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