Transitions to University
Lesson One
Excited or daunted – how are you feeling about university?
This lesson helps to raise pupils’ awareness about their current understanding / expectations / worries of university, and the selected podcast excerpts are informative and reassuring (i.e. they should allay many concerns that learners might have). In this lesson, we hear from pupils and teachers about common attitudes / beliefs that young people have about university, as well as from university students and staff.
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Warm-Up Question
How are you feeling about your ideas for what you’ll do, after secondary school?
Do your plans include university?
Main Task 1: Interviewing Peers
Pupils interview each other about their plans for post-secondary (with some emphasis being placed on university, and what they think it’ll be like).
Main Task 2: Hearing what other young people in Scotland had to say
Pupils now listen to some short excerpts from the pupils’ podcast, about their thoughts / concerns, and compare and contrast their own interview responses.
Main Task 3: Reassurance / Solutions
Pupils listen to short podcast excerpts from secondary teachers, university staff, and university students, which aim to reassure young people about common concerns.
Summary Points
- It’s totally normal to feel apprehensive / daunted about next steps after secondary school!
- Everyone is in the same boat, sharing the same concerns.
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