Orientation for Success in Higher Education: Key Aspects Analysis

This essay discusses the importance of orientation for success in higher education, focusing on the impacts of COVID-19 on the hospitality, travel, and leisure industries. It examines the use of formative feedback to improve summative assessments and identifies cultural and behavioral expectations for students. The essay also highlights the importance of peer-to-peer support and team working in enhancing the learning experience. It concludes that success in higher education involves developing skills, knowledge, and experiences to meet personal and professional objectives, and provides a transition from high school to university to work-life.

Orientation for success
in higher education

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK ..............................................................................................................................................3
Impacts of COVID-19 on the hospitality, travel and leisure......................................................3
Use of formative feedback to inform and improve the summative assessed work.....................4
Identify the cultural and behavioural expectations.....................................................................4
Importance of peer-to-peer support and team working...............................................................5
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
REFERNCES:..................................................................................................................................7
Books and Journals:....................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Orientation for success is an approach which offers the tools to activate the brain
functions that directly facilitates skills like self-feeding, listening, communicating, eye-contact
and other functional skills for life (Abusharekh and Et.al., 2020). The essay is aim with
discussing the importance of reflective approach, the use of formative feedback and improved
summative work within the business (Uyun, 2019). The essay also included topics such as
cultural and behavioural expectation of studying and team working to improve the learning
experience.
TASK
Impacts of COVID-19 on the hospitality, travel and leisure.
As the effects of COVID-19 spreads throughout the world. The main focus of the
governments and businesses is the safety of the people. It has been found that hospitality, travel
or leisure clients experienced badly due to the situation of pandemic. The impact of situation is
huge and never predicted something like that before (Teh and Et.al., 2018). Many businesses in
the industry has been taken their decisions to shut down, their hotels, theme parks, cinemas or
restaurants. Apart from this, it also affects badly to the revenue and supply system of the
business. Travel is an activity that is consisting with the involvement of many people from a
range of households which is not risk free even though people take doses of vaccination.
Government imposed different measures in order to control the impact of disease (Acuna and
Et.al., 2017). And due such measures, people also take proper precautions to control the spread
which ultimately changes their travel behaviour too. I too changed my travel patterns from
grocery shopping to work. I wear mask while going out to purchase stuffs from grocery stores,
maintaining 1 metre distance from others, wash foods items before using them and so on. Due to
the pandemic situation, I prefer more private transport instead of public transport. The travelling
is decided with some priorities that if it is very essential to travel then I prefer to travel with
proper precautions such as use of sanitizer, trying to contact less with people, choosing of hotel
which has taken proper measures and many more. Even though sometimes I avoid food from
outside as so many hands touch the food parcel and many more. The industry also try to reduce
their number of staff from hotels, restaurants and other areas due to such many of the employees
lost their jobs and their family also suffers huge losses. After the lock-down is over, the hotels or

other business are taking proper care of measures such as if any of their guest is feeling sick, or
develops symptoms of COVID-19 like cold or fever they should contact to the local health
authority and follow the further instructions (Atwood and Bianchi, 2019). The sick guest must
be isolate in the room and maintain the distance from anyone. Overall, the situation affects badly
before and after the lock-down but with proper care and instructions it can be regain to its
normal.
Use of formative feedback to inform and improve the summative assessed work.
Formative feedback can be used an an ongoing process which is done by teachers on their
learners to better understanding the limits of their knowledge and skills so that they can be abkle
to improve. This is strategy where teachers or mentors determining the things that needs more
attention which is unclear and needs to be more focused so that students can done it in an
effective way in order to meet the requirements of team or group in the sessions. This makes
students to acknowledge their mistakes, weaknesses and problems which they are facing. It helps
to enhance the learning outcomes and performance of students with improved knowledge and
skills (Bamunuge, 2021). It is important for the students and mentors both as it claims to
improve the immediate and ongoing feedback to improve the learning and experiences. It can be
also taken as a motivating factor when students gets positive factor by their mentors but on the
other side it is also important not to disappoint if the feedbacks are negative and try to focus on
mistakes to be improved. Formative feedbacks are for learning but summative assessments are of
learning. Summative assessments are used by experts to track and measure the progress of the
student at the end of sessions (Popov and Et.al., 2019). Formative feedbacks provides me a lot of
benefits such as I develop skills and my knowledge where I am lacking and needs to be
improved. I took various feedbacks in verbal and non-verbal form which is used to monitor my
performance on timely basis. My mentors examining my performance in the sessions and
provide feedbacks where I am not performing well. And I take it as a challenge which has to
been seen with good improvisation in my next activity or even in group tasks as well.
Identify the cultural and behavioural expectations.
A culture is a system of beliefs, attitudes, behaviours, traditions as well as languages that
represents a typical way of life of people (Civelek and Et.al., 2020). This are the norms which
are set with some shared expectations and rules that is used to direct the behaviour of learners
within the team. These can be guide and reinforced by parents, friends, mentors and anyone who

is growing up with the society. It has been found with different cultural expectations from the
students or learners, ranging from the expectations that specific cultural groups have of one as a
mentor as well as have their own way understanding of their responsibilities to understanding of
academic offense and standards. It can be better get it with an example that is there are some
vital cultural differences in what types of session behaviour can be respectful (Ehrnrooth, 2021).
Most of the times, it has been taught by the teachers that speak out in the classroom is
disrespectful in order to ask questions of the mentors or to not agree with the authorities. But on
the other side, there are students who are raised with a lesson to make their participation in the
sessions, clear the doubts, ask questions in order to make their presence in the learning sessions
(Mitchell and Tarter, 2017). I found in my learning sessions that sometimes it is difficult for me
to understand the accent of mentors as they taught me in their way teaching. In order to get my
course done in business management I read books, attend online sessions of other experts to
develop my knowledge or ask my other fellow-mates to give a brief of lessons so that I can learn
and grow. One of the best part of sessions is that my mentors allowed me to listen on other
platforms so that I can learn things and lessons and I can ask them whenever I face problems.
Importance of peer-to-peer support and team working.
A peer-to-peer is a way of gathering the lived experience of the members in the
classroom. These are the experiences which are not shared by teachers or mentors but with the
classmates where they can share some informations, experiences, knowledge or whatever they
carry in group or one to one discussion. It supports to improve the quality of life, students learn
to be self-managed, increases and improves engagements of the team-mates and many more. It is
meant to be considering as the important aspects of emotional development such as the
development of self-esteem, self-concept and identity. With the collaborative team learning, it
leads to achieve higher achievement (Goering, Goulap and Seid, 2020). It will also benefits as
the shared experiences will boost the understanding as well as deepening it which ultimately
boost the self-confidence. Peer-to-peer learning is effective way to learn while sharing
knowledge and experiences which means learning by watching the peers, following their lead
and interacting with them while performing activities (Leckie and McDonald, 2020). The best
part of peers is that they have similar backgrounds, interests, age, social status that serves a
significant source of proving feedbacks and support as they create a sense of self. Peer-to-peer
learning impacts in both ways that is positive and negative. It has an important impact on one's

decision making ability where peers can dominate the one's decision making ability. Along with
this, it tends to develop more skills such as critical thinking skills, interpersonal skills, problem-
solving or communication skills (Meyer-Parlapanis, Siefert and Weierstall, 2017). In my learning
sessions I though that it was silly and non-effective idea to work with peers and collaboration but
after sharing knowledge and experiences with my peers I realized that it can help to create a new
and lessons which can be appreciated by many (Mintz, Currim and Deshpandé, 2020). It can turn
the small knowledge into the seeds for something pleasing.
CONCLUSION
It has been concluded from the above essay is that the success of a student can be tracked,
monitor and measured with the achievement of present, future, personal and professional
objectives of his life through the development of skills, knowledge and experiences, which
creates a sense of responsibilities, connection to the society and so on. Overall, it provides a
transition from high school to university to work-life. By getting an overview of academic
expectations, learners will be better meet with the challenges.

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