Provide a meaningful first day introduction informing students of all policies - the school as well as my expectations.
Meet with students immediately when I see that they are steering off course.
Work to engage students daily so that they want to come back the next day for a repeat.
Engaging in more hands on interaction
Offering more learning incentives to bring students into school
Making sure to keep the lines of communication open and observe for those who stray
I agree
We have weekly meeting to discuss student issues.
Improve communication between the students, Instructors and administration.
We must know what is going on with our students at all times.
Tutoring, bus passes, car pooling, make up hours, grades, attendance, car repairs, death in the family, out sick,
Not giving out on their dream.
We have a first line person. Students are able to go to this person for anything.
This stops all of the hallway/classroom conversions, being sent to the wrong staff member several times.
We have a 24 hr turn around time.
Activities
Resume & cover letter building training-to help students with Job skills
Help students with Business cards & setting up Business websites.
Visiting Speakers that are in the industry
this keeps the students focus on their education goals/career success.
1. Greeting students in my department by their first name.
2. Focusing conversation on 'are you happy with your projects'? "are you excited about some of your work'? 'will you show me some of your work'?
3. Contacting students who have been 'absent' inquiring about 'why' and not so much about 'you need to attend'.
Work closer with support staff in student services by undersanding what they do and what they can help with.
Come up with a better way to track the progress acedemically, emotionally, socially. I want to see the problems as early as possible.
Refine my technique in vertical probing and get to the heart of the problem.
These will be great tools to help with the retention need.
Mentoring, Student Tutoring, and follow up on new students within the first 5 days.
Establish a mentoring system in each of our programs. Confirm that every student knows who is the "Point of Service." Besides having the instructor be a tutor, establish a tutor per program.
Introduction of myself and out student services department to new classes - making sure they know who we are, what we do, and how to contact us.
Using a flyer to show the above information that includes pictures of the student services staff with contact information.
More student interaction. Having everyone in student services be in the class room at least once per day talking with students and building rapport.
I will contact all of my students for wellness calls. Some of the students I am in contact with daily or weekly. Others deserve a wellness call. Sometimes, every term is a little excessive so I am trying every other term.
I will send them all an email in reference to time management, stress, scheduling time around the holiday season, motivation and more. This will be kind of like my own personal newsletter.
I will help others with their retention, specifically when they are having issues with one of my previous students.
In the next thrity days I will, award my students' academic excellence and hand out awards to them, reinforce the positive nature of their career choice and outline the not so favorable aspects so they get a clear picture of what their job will be like when they complete their education, give positive constructive criticism in evaluations, praise the good things they did, and point out the mistakes in a way that they could imporve to turn things around. Be honest with the students, don't sugarcoat things. Be real.
I will have a presence to the students more outside of my office walls daily.
I will speak to instructors about at risk students rather than waiting for them to be pointed out or at a crisis before being referred to me.
I will continue to be a positive model.
Three steps to take for retention
1. Orientation of students by making rounds to all calssrooms to remind them of the services available and give them the flyer related to the services.
2. Meet with faculty council to address the retention stratgies and to orientate them on the regulations that they can adives the students where to get help.
3. Distribution of Excellent achievenment awards to the students
Make more of a presence within the student body, be a personal cheerleader, reach out to the students that struggle proactively, and encourage instructors to build stronger connections with the individual students.
i will ask students what i could do to improve the atmosphere of the class.
i could remind students of the value of not missing time.
continue to give all the enegery i have to bring energy to the class.
Getting positive feedback from the students is a great idea. Is this used to recognize staff/faculty who are identified for the work they are doing?
One of the things we do and will continue with is a quarterly President's Breakfast where we invite the class president from each cohort to a breakfast with the school director, registrar and director of education. The class representative shares the concerns from each class and also shares positive feedback from the cohort about the school. We also have a quarterly student appreciation day where we invite all of the students to participate in fun games and provide donuts and coffee or pizza and soda. One of the areas that we need improvement in is strengthening the student/faculty/staff relationships. This will be discussed in our next faculty/staff meeting.
We promote the classroom as a community, senior students serve as mentors for the new students. We call students who are absent to find out why they are not in class.
1. Revive the newsletter.
2. Add pictures to our FAQ handout.
3. Develop a course completion chart for students to track their progress to help them combat Academic Erosion.
1. Make regular visits to the classrooms and get to know students by name, let me know that I care.
2. Contact all high risk students myself, to see what we can do to assist them in continuing their education.
3. Support my instructors and make sure they feel they are an important part of this school.
1. Create detailed written procedures, with pictures of the people involved with each service for the next orientation (that was a great idea)
2. See if there are community services with whom we can partnership to set up services for our students
3. Start a class newsletter for new students.
