Special Programs

Academic Study Skills Program

Improve Your Study Skills!

This is both an extension and a support program and offers all students the chance to maximise their learning and achievements. It is run as an R Unit in small groups.
This program is open to:

• All students
• All levels

Alternative programs within this program include:

• AST Preparation Skills: covers strategies for writing task and multiple choice
  
• General Study Skills- covers individual student’s needs.
• Literacy Skills- covers expression, spelling, grammar, vocabulary, essay
  

Support and Extension is offered to students in such areas as:

• Essay writing skills
• Organisational skills
• Research skills
• Examination techniques
• Structuring assignments
• AST Writing task and multiple choice
• Writing practical reports
• Preparing for oral presentations

Mathematics Enrichment

Mathematics enrichment is held once a week after school for those students interested in mathematics and who enjoy a challenge. The program is based on the University of Sydney Mathematics Enrichment Program. Students work cooperatively to solve problems.

Mathematics Tutorials

There are two types of tutorials. Mathematics tutorials are held once a week during lunchtimes while there is a demand. Any student may attend to catch up on work missed, do homework, clarify or receive help with an area of mathematics they are finding difficult. These are run as a drop in when required.

Mathematics tutorials are also held on Wednesday after school. This is a weekly commitment and students can achieve points for Mathematics Tutorials on their Year 12 Certificate.

Careers

The Careers room aims to provide career information, education and guidance for all students. Students are encouraged to make informed and realistic decisions about their future endeavours. We encourage students to visit the Careers room regularly while at College.

Some of the services we provide are:

• comfortable lounge area to browse through the latest information, university handbooks, and many pamphlets
• appointment booking sheet – students can make a booking to discuss their own goals and progress at school
• Career Advisors who are available to provide suggestions on any career matter
• literature students can take home
• traineeship and apprenticeship information

Work Experience – available three times whilst at college

• help with writing resumes, applying for jobs and interview skills
• computer for student use - access to web to check university and job vacancy sites
• Career Builder – a computer package designed to help plan your career path and make realistic choices for the future
• liaison with job network agencies and Centrelink Career Resource Centre.

CIT Courses

Lake Tuggeranong College has entered into a partnership with the Canberra Institute of Technology (CIT) resulting in a variety of courses being placed on offer to College students usually in their final semester of Year 12.

Successful completion of these courses will lead to employment, enhanced career prospects and a nationally recognised qualification.

In addition, all courses have Registered Unit status and will count towards the Year 12 Certificate. They will be studied at CIT’s Reid or Fyshwick campus. The courses will result in the award of a Certificate 1 or 11 or a Statement of Attainment.

The courses that are available include:

• Warehousing and Forklift
• Bar Services and Patron Care
• Animal Husbandry / Vet Nursing
• Light Plant Machinery

Additional courses run by the CIT and supported by the College to assist students to gain training for employment are as follows:

• Animal Technology/Vet Nursing
• Floristry
• Interactive Entertainment
• Horticulture
• Contemporary Music
• Commercial Cooking

Course delivery is flexible and subject to negotiation between the students and staff at Lake Tuggeranong College and CIT. (These courses may involve additional course costs).

Technology Projects

The College is regarded as the provider of one of the largest and most successful Technology Education based projects in Australia. The projects adopted lead you through the design, building and evaluation process of constructing ‘energy efficient’ vehicles and boats. The end focus of this is the participation in competitions such as the Solar Boat Race, Sydney to Melbourne ’Sunrace’ and the World Solar Challenge.

The projects allow you to link various scientific and mathematical concepts and principles to technology based applications. They also focus on how to develop competencies in working as a team or group, developing strategies to conserve the environment and preparing you for the future ahead. Campaigns are being developed for future events and the projects appeal to a wide variety of students at the College including Technology, Media, Physics, Photography, Computing and Automotive Technology students.

Work Experience

We strongly encourage all students to undertake Work Experience whilst at the College. Work Experience teaches you about the world of work and enables you to make informed decisions about various types of employment. Work Experience enables you to make connections between school and future work. Demonstrated interest including work experience is now a prerequisite for many CIT courses.

Placements for Work Experience are generally available at the end of each semester to avoid clashes with assignments and tests although it is possible to have placements as part of a course. Students can receive points on their Year 12 Certificate. Some ex-students have successfully gained employment or apprenticeships from their Work Experience placements. If you are interested in Work Experience see the Careers Office for more information.

Private International Students

Lake Tuggeranong College is proud of the multicultural nature of its student population. If you are a student from overseas, we can advise you on the best choice of courses and levels for your needs - whether you are planning to study at an Australian University, enter CIT or return home having been enriched with the experience of living in Australia.

Our specialised English as a Second Language course will help you to improve your English language and study skills in a supportive and friendly atmosphere. Extra help is also provided in the form of tutorials which are held at regular times each week or by appointment with several teachers experienced in dealing with students of non-English speaking background. Other advisers are also available to help you to adjust to your new environment and make the best decisions to achieve your academic goal as well as ensure that your time at College is a happy, productive one.

Depending on the standard of your English, you may enrol in English as a Second Language (see the entry under this course name) or Bridging Intensive English.

Bridging Intensive English Program

This R course is designed for:

• students who have newly arrived in the College system
• those students doing T or A courses who need extra assistance in order to cope with mainstream classes.
  

This flexible course is designed around modules suitable for individual learning styles, as well as more structured units, which are taught non-sequentially. Work is developed according to the needs of particular groups of students.

All modules of work cover areas of grammatical understanding and vocabulary development (according to the needs of the particular group) as well as modules of basic research and listening/viewing. The latter modules deal more extensively with developing basic research skills which can be transferred to ESL T studies.

Students study either one or two lines of Bridging English, and upon satisfactory performance, drop these while maintaining ESL at either A or T level. In addition, the ESL Tutorial aims to assist students in the English aspects of their major subject work.