1.Use attendance as asignificant percentage of the grade.
2. Encourage student participation through small groups, peer tutoring, twin-pairing.
3.Make student feel important that their needs and expectation are important ot the college.
1. Conduct a meeting with faculty to discuss building relationships with the students do they are comfortable talking about issues.
2. Continue being easlily accessable for students to speak to.
3. Review our semester for attendance and drop issues to improve next term.
Three specific steps I will take withij the next 30 days to imkprove retention will be mentoring students, tutoring students that require additional help, and putting up a suggestion box so that students can anonymously make suggestions.
Anna, how do you identify knowledge deficiencies? (what are knowledge deficiencies?) Can you share an example of what's in a self learning packet?
Loren Kroh
Specific steps to improve retention will include:
1.) More in-depth follow-up regarding class absences. As we have now reached the mid-quarter marker, I will reinforce efforts to encourage prompt class attendance.
2.) Establish individual follow-up sessions for marginal students to address need for further tutorial assistance and complete referrals as deemed necessary.
3.) Complete field trip and student-speaker activities to address possible concerns due to academic erosion and/or academic stagnation.
1. Collaborate with faculty in evaluating persistence improvement plan that will increase the "We care" approach.
2. Probe the need to create a Student Assistance Program for crisis interventions spearheaded by a selected faculty.
3. Suggestion box
I will identify any knowledge deficiencies my students arrive with & develop simple self learning packets that will help them succeed. Also make myself available before & after class to answer any questions.
I teach relevance to their chosen field throughout the course & give encouragement every chance I get.
Taryn, connecting students can be a powerful motivator for group achievement. Of course, we must be careful about what information is shared with a student's peers.
Loren Kroh
go to work with a positive attitude,try to have better communications with co workers as well as the students,give the students a open door policy.
1) Post "you suggested" and "we answered" signs/cards with feedback and implementation responses from student surveys
2) Begin using the 8 stages of intervention, survey and vertical probe methods during student meetings
3) Track cohort data on retention
Try and take more of an interest in the students lives, Have more one on one with the students, Have an open door policy
Make my own student survey sheet to find out any concerns or comments my students may have in my class or in the school overall.
Look through the student survey feedback to see what area(s) I can improve on.
Try to have a short one-on-one conversation with each student, each class to see if they need any assistance. I teach 4 hour night classes, so this would be achievable.
Take the students on field trips, have several guest speakers come in, have more inclass hands-on activities
1) I will continue to build and maintain a great rapport with my students,particularly the ones who seem hardest to reach.
2) I will send out a "blinker" email immediately if any student is absent for 2 days or more.
3) I will make sure my new students are aware of all the resources that are available to them.
The first thing will do is to determin what is the actual problem.
Engage the student in a private setting to ensure their is an actual problem or is it a percieved problem do to the lack of involvement.
Once the problem is defined it is necessary to get the student to accept the proposed plan of action that will ensure his chances of finishing the course sucessfully
Thank you! The truth is it ties back to motivating the students. I found out that students are motivated by activity, rewards, and friendly competition.
Ultimately, I am fortunate to have a class that understands the team atmosphere. I encourage the students to be supportive of one another. Even more than Career Services, the student assistant program, and other campus departments, my students are my greatest resource for helping other students.
If I can't bring a student back to class, chances are one of my students can. If I AND another student can't bring someone back to class...then the chances have increased that I've lost him.
After you've done all can, you still should follow up with students who have left. The follow up responses show you care. If students see that they may decide to reinstate when their situations improve.
Taryn, sounds like you run a very lively classroom. I bet the students enjoy coming to class.
I too make it a point to remember every students name. There are those rare moments when I call a student by the wrong name. When that happens the student is automatically rewarded 5 points...Students can't wait to pounce on that one.
For every student, I will handwrite, or type when applicable, personal notes of encouragement on their homework assignments. Our students need support and validation.
Because my students are administrative professionals, we will celebrate Administrative Professionals day with a cake and course-related games and activities on April 25th. (They don't know it yet).
At the end of the course, we have presentation of awards: Spelling Bees, Perfect Attendance, and Dean's List. We also follow up the course final with a movie or karaoke. Students really do need to feel appreciated and have an opportunity to defuse after stressful events.
Step One: Student counseling for academic progress; Step Two: Referral system by instructors regarding student performance to appropriate staff; and three: E-mail system is being designed to keep students informed of school activities, posting of homework and advice of instructors where applicable.
