We all go through stressful phases in life. Some some may be able to handle high levels of stress. Where some don't possess that ability. As a team, it's our responsibility to provide assistance.
Poor service can negatively impact students. I've also learned that it's everyone's responsibility to keep students on track and to help them succeed.
I learned about how powerful paradigms are and it's very important for school personnel to consistently adopt a positive and hopeful paradigm when assisting the student. When students lose hope and when they are about to give up it's the school's personnel duty to offer meaningful support and to positively influence a student to remain in school.
We will work to help students identify their mindset and how they are dealing with the pressures of school, work, and life. Our instructors are frontline responders and who the students respect.
Academic Erosion and Academic Stagnation felt on behalf of the students is collateral damage from the "Professional" Erosion and "Professional" Stagnation that the university staff feel themselves from their superiors or job responsibilities.
It is important to not only tell students that we support them, but we must also show them as well.
While reading these documents, I learned that reassurance is important and should be given to the students to help from stressing factors inside and outside the school.
I train all my staff on the importance of retention.
stress and perception and causes for students to doubt their worthiness in class
An effort to keep retention is to keep on motivating, make it fun, let the student know the will be succeful and their effort is not unseen. The way I would apply this is to insure they are understanding and interested in the way they are being educated weather that be Visually, Auditory, Kinesthetically, or through Reading & Wrighting.
As a success coach, it is important to keep a positive, encouraging, and uplifting outlook so that the student will feel hope in whatever situation they face. This will combat Academic Erosion and Academic Stagnation, as well as guide them to a new paradigm of thinking to help them become successful.
Encouragement and working with students is key. Things can spiral out of control quickly, and it's best to be observant and help students work with stressors.
Demonstrating respect and concern are vitally important in conveying we are there to support our students' success
Everyone in the institution must understand that student success is the primary measure of institutional success.
The easiest way to deal with being overly stressed is to eliminate or to escape the stressors.
It is important to help students identify developing problems.
I did not realize the importance of being able to recognize students stress and the value of showing that the institution cares and is involved with the success of students, and the impact it has on retention.
Attrition is a combination of multiple things. The student could stop because they have earned a diploma and need money and want to work. They have decided to stop because family life has gotten to hard. You never know what is going on with the student outside of school. Sure it takes a village to run a program and an institution but it also takes hard work and dedication which sometimes the younger generation doesn't have.
The way the student sees the school as caring about them and their goals is critical.
I have learned about the general adaptation syndrome and, how as higher education staff and personel, we can intervene early on to support students. As students feel they are falling behind their peers or that there education isn't going to place them in a better spot, students lose hope and belief in the institution and their education. This leads them to stop studying and leave the institution. If we focus on preventing attrition before it happens and remediating before the downward part of the general adaptation syndrome then we can keep students aligned with and working towards their academic and professional goals.
