At the moment I am teaching Study Skills for the students of Advanced Certificate in Management Course. This subject basically includes most of the skills students need to master in Higher Education like Presentation skills, note taking skills, reading and writing skills, referencing skills etc. These students come from different islands and their ages vary from 20 to 35. Our course runs in blended mode (face-to-face BLOCK mode tutorials and online classes using an LMS). Students are provided with study guides as well as the learning materials are online. There are weekly chat sessions and forums. Most of them have desktops or laptops and in some of the island the internet connection sometimes is a bit slow. Although there are 80 students registered in the course, I would select my tutorial students 11 male and 9 female (20) for this project.
It is a fact that communication skills is an important factor in achieving success in any field and I realize that most of my students’ needs to develop their communication skills. When we do class discussions, group work and presentations, some of them are very confident to speak up and express their views on different issues and some of them are not. I believe that students need more opportunities to practice communication skills. Also, though we have chat sessions, forums and other activities to practice writing skills still some students are weak in their writing skills and grammar which make them loose their confidence while communicating.
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