In career school education, students are not your average students. They sometimes must be conjoled with a firm hand...

how do you convince others with no career-school ecp. that the enclosed is vital...

Sometimes i s aproblem when you have different points of views and opinions...anyone to share???

I am so seeing a change in the type of reasons that students are now dropping as well as a new strategy in retention....

Mentoring can be an important system to have in place. have never taught about having sudents/graduates mentoring. I think that is an excellent idea.

What ideas and support can be given the students that are facing lost in funding.

A school where I first taught at would have “pep-rallies” ; and school sweater days..these were meant to instill pride in their school and themselves (student body makes up the school)to encourage the student to do their best and to build a stronger bond between the student and the school! The goal was to instill in the student a sense of “belonging”, that he/she is what makes a great school where great, successful students graduate to become successful practitioners of their trade or vocation!

When we get new students (1st time enrollee’s) should we be setting aside some time at the beginning of the semester to set and talk with each student to try to get a heads-up on any issue(s) that might cause an “unnecessary” drop? As an instructor I try to get to each student and try to find out little things about them and their situations without coming off as being nosy! This helps in averting issues before they get out of hand for the student if I can offer alternatives or help them fing the right solution for their issue. What do you think?

My idea of customer service is to maintain the focus on the customer at all times. Find their needs and fill them

Our attitudes are much more important than some of us think. A REAL smile and HELLO are not sappy. They can be meaningful. Mark

Some people are grasping for something to do. Doing an externship or something similar sould help the students become more excited about their goals. Mark

Hi, A lot of students work, have families and go to school. Exausted. How can we help

Hi, How can you make it interesting day after day? It is sorta like how do you keep your kids at home fed an interesting and cheap meal every day. Mark

Idea for recognizing ESOL Students will rise to the level of expectation. Our students need to feel that they are succeeding. ESOL students cannot compete with main stream students; however they can compete among each other. We need advisers for ESOL students by students and faculty that understand the students plight.

Although retention is extremly inportant; however, not all students respond to the same intervention. Learing support and ESOL students will need mentors to help them succeed. An ESOL advicer who would be responsible for the retention of these kinds of these students. Students will succeed with accomendations.

Many teachers will be getting ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Language) students in their classes. These students need specific strategies to succeed. I have a master's degree and 30 years of experience in this area. I would be happy to train instructors on the proper procedure to help retain ESOL students. Would you be interested in this kind of training? Retention is very important for our institution. We need to reach out to these students.

I particularly liked the statement in the module that said it is just as important to practice the topics in the workforce as I totally agree staff need to be trained and managers need to engage with them to ensure they do not want to quit.

In our school we only have each group for 15 days. That makes it hard to get involved with anything but delivering the material in class. a lot of times I really don't get to know much about the student until the end of the session. This can make harder to have a positive impact on retention

I teach English for Speakers of other languages. Not only are these students trying to master a new language, they are new Americans that are struggling at home. A guidebook in Spanish and English (since all ESL students are Spanish speaking)I believe will save undue frustration for these students. Many new enrollees are so overwhelmed by all the new information, in a new language, surroundings, and people that they don't really internalize the list. When it comes time to seek help they don't remember who, where, or how to get it. Human nature provides all the excuses they need to put off asking – frequently until it's too late. Student Mentors can assist students in knowing what resources are available.(Instructors as councilors puts a large strain on the teachers who are very busy and may miss a signal.

it's nice to have a better knowledge of how to measure retention.