How does this affect other students in same cohort

finding new ways to keep students excited

New teaching strategies can help keep students interested

The first week of school, have the student go to each facultyand staff name on the paper and have them sign their sheet every morning. Students should have at least five signature on their sheet. The student should address the person by name and say good morning. If the student do not address you by name, then the student have to address two other people to make up for that one.

During orientation, having the students introducing themselves to each other is a great idea. Also have the first instructor the students are going to meet attend the orientation so the students will be familiar with him/her on the first day of school. On the first day, give the students a scavenger hunt list and have them go to some of the facultyand staff for signature. This will help them to familiarize themselves with the staff instead of being afraid or intimidated by them.

Find a word game sounds great as a class electricity game.(Use the ten main words in the electricity chapter, place them around your department and other departments that uses electricity and have the student find the word, then add the definition to the word when they get back to class). The person with the most correct answere win a small prize. You will be surprise to find how hard students will work for a sucker.

To ensure students success, try not to be more of a friend than an instructor. That line is easy to cross when try to gather information to what the students need inside and outside of the classroom

The course mentions that some schools are using "web-based retention intervention system that provides students with a confidential, non-confrontational, non-judgmental way to contact school personnel". My school does not do this and I'd like to know if anyone here has experience with this technique and what the results are?

Retention is often over looked at our facility I have found working within a group to put the students first has helped with the retention at our facility.

Sincerely,

 Ms. Ginell Agnew

For Our school, we have several site like, Clinics, Hospitals our students have a lots of hands of training, is very important to trained our students right so they become future employers.

Customer Service is very important i think are first impression with a good smile and treat them always we care and respect.

It is much easier to dedicate the time, resources, and effort in helping students of smaller cohorts or classes. This becomes diluted, however, when class sizes are large and the career-oriented students have many issues negatively affecting retention. Is there research on or findings that indicate an appropriate instructor-to-student ratio and/or a student services department (staff)-to-student ratio...with a particular focus on Student Retention, that is recommended?

I have noticed that many students who's initial interests brought them to our school have been correlated into a second-choice or "back-up" program. What are the statistics indicating regarding retention and those who have been correlated into programs that were not their original program of interest?

How are those from other types of industries defining and reacting to retention issues in higher-ed. For example, a director or CP with experience in the operations of restaurants or hospitals may have a totally different interpretation of "retention:" and one, which may not be in line with what Higher-Ed may expect.

I think this helps but I think sometimes also get lost in all the myriad of documents and postings available for students. Institutions where there are 500 students taking 1 course, I think that having a Dean's list by with a few names in there posted in a hallway it does helps but it is minimal because usually students in a Dean's list are not usually students needing much tutoring or help

I understand that retention is important and that professors are the ones in contact with students but it is also important to remember that students have different type of issues, learn in different ways, instructors are different (adjunct vs full time), class sizes are different (regular classroon vs auditorium), student services are different (tutoring vs advisors) etc etc. Sometimes the professor cannot identify the student with issues (i.e classroom size) and many times the professor refers the student but the student get lost in the system . What to do?In my opinion that is the 1 million dollars question.

Students that withdrawing from a program create a poor finanical return investment for both the school and the student.

Problem solving skills are part of good communication skills. Most students that do not communicate well have a hard time explaining the hard of the problem becuase they are unsure how communicate the problem at the time it is happening.

Instructor must establish a relationship the students to encourage them to learn, but also keep in mind the fine line between respect and disrepect. Students most often are upset set when an instructor create professional rules and expectation to be followed.

There was a statement about recruiting students that will have a high probability of suceeding in the program. I think recruiters think and see numbers sometimes becuase an high entry test score is part of the completing the programs. Some students have expectations but low drive and endurance once they are in the program. I think recruiters do a great job with getting the students to enroll, but they would do a better job with better education about the details of the different programs.