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Tara King
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I absolutely agree, but sometimes there are other factors that come into play. For instance, at another school where I worked, retention was the basis for everything from salary to maintaining employment. It made for an environment that focused more on keeping students in class rather than ensuring that they had learned the required material.
Most online schools have retention as a part of their employment records, but it is not the one factor that can make or break an instructor. And as an adjunct, fighting the system usually only leads to one's termination.
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While we are certainly all discussing attrition and its relationship to the students' stress, I wonder if our own stress as instructors is a factor in our ability to address these issues. It's a difficult line to walk. As the reading points out, we all have stress and different mechanisms for coping with stress. I do all that I can to understand my students' stress, and I make clear to them early on that I have stress, too. I try to avoid statements like "If I can do this, anyone can." But at the same time, I have to maintain… >>>
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