Douglas Midkiff Sr.

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I beleive that tthe first step is to ask ourselfs;Are we really doing what is needed to help the students? be honest with yourself and identify where you can improve. second:Put your game plan together so that you can monitor your results.Ask your students to be honest with you and see from there prospective if you did everything you could possibly do to help them succeed and want to stay in school? Third:review your reults and once again identify where you can improve and take the neccessary steps to continue progressing.

Douglas Midkiff Sr.

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Being approachable!

If you are the type of instructor that sets yourself out there as someone students can approach, I beleive most of the time they will come up to you and discuss situations that may otheriwse affect there retention. Myself In the last 2 years here I have had this very scenerio quite a few times. Because of this also comes that they trust you, so they will purse the other departments for the appropiate help and your reccomendation to do so.

Douglas Midkiff Sr.

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Identifying stress within students

To understnd how to identify someone stressing out can actually be quite simple if, even for the quitest person. What it takes is not being taught i feel thruoghout the earlier years of schooling and it is simply understanding social styles as there are 4 key socail styles anyone will fall under. Though i learned this much later in my life thru differnet conferences and gatherings, it has been more valubale than not as it also helps me relate to a mucher larger goup of people , whether for bussines or teaching.

Douglas Midkiff Sr.

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Attrition and the role schools play

I have always felt and firmly beleive in the fact that, it is not the student who fails school, however it is the school that failed the student. learning this later in life as i went thru the very thing from elementary scholl thru high school, only to find later that between the home life with parents and the lack of desire for school faculty to help, forced me into a position of doing very poorley. However, it also takes a person of constant and honest self evaluation and motivation to pule thru these types of circumstances. Further as we… >>>

Douglas Midkiff Sr.

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Renetion; It's Role and Our Job

I found the module to be very exact in the theory of it is everybodys role to help with retention. First if we do not have the experience for which we are instructing, the students are already at a loss from the start, and we have no right instructing this material for which we lack knowledge! There simply would be no creditability, thereofr no trust can be found either. Add to this the deadly mixture of a student having issues or challenges,be it at school or away from school,they will not confide within you and you may have been the… >>>

Douglas Midkiff Sr.

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Retention Through Challengeing Students; With Eperience!

I have found that students strive much harder at any cost to stay enrolled and acheive at a greater level when they see that you as the instructor are confident, caring (both on there education and successes); are concerned with seeing them thru difficult times,(whether it be with school or personal); and simply being a genuine instructor and person; but the most critical factor to me is that you back what you say through experience in the trade. With this they have trust within you and will confide within you for most any situation! Without trust they have nothing more… >>>