Enhancing Student Retention

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Ask a question from your peers to help you in your professional work. Seek different points of view on a topic that interests you. Start a thought-provoking conversation about a hot, current topic. Encourage your peers to join you in the discussion, and feel free to facilitate the discussion. As a community of educators, all members of the Career Ed Lounge are empowered to act as a discussion facilitator to help us all learn from each other.

Kitt Dudley

motivating 18-20 age range in prioritizing studing

My greatest challange has been reaching the mind-heart of the 18-20. They seem to lack the time manangement/study skills required to maintain desired scores. Furthermore, the ability to maintain the balance of school and work life seems to be a challange for all age groups. I find that continuous "cheerleading" seems to be most effective.

Thomasena Williams

fear of returning to the college environment

Many adult learners have a fear of technology when returning to the college environment. There is a general fear of not being able to grasp the age of computers as the recent high school graduate. This is one of the observations and encouraging opportunities that I have noticed with many of the older adult learners.

Mary Jo Gore CHEP

Learning from failure

I let my students know that it is alright to fail(in the practical side). They are students, therefore they are learning and not experts at it already. I tell them that my expectation is that they take that experience and learn from it. Hopefully, the experience will give them confidence. I also encourage them to practice to give them confidence and they must trust themselves.

kisha armstead

stayin positive

how can an instructor seperate the home life and things that may go on there from the work they do in the class room setting?

kisha armstead

meeting the needs of all students

when there are a wide variety of different learning habits how do we as instructors meet the needs of every student without leaving even one behind?

kisha armstead

going back to school

What do u think can be done to assist in informing adults about the fact that its never to late to gain an education? because for some they talk themselves out of the thought of more schooling.

Wade Witherspoon

Dealing with the "expert" in class.

Have you ever had a student who liked to show everyone else in class how much they know? How did you handle it? I've tried different things and found that the one-on-one talk is most effective. Once you point out to the student that you value their input but provide some parameters on how and when you would like them to provide you with it, they more often than not will play nice.

sarai Dieguez

Motivating students

The instructor need to motived the students so they in class

sarai Dieguez

How to refocus

Instructor need to refocus when they feel they have lost the attention of the students.

VERONICA CARCAMO

Student Retenion

How can an instructor retenion a student who is being force to attend school due to outside reasons?

sarai Dieguez

Students names

How important it is to learn all the names of my students.

sarai Dieguez

understanding adult students

Is important that we understand the differents Between adult and young students.

Deborah Helmlinger

Instructors as Sounding Board

I always like to get comments and listen to what they have to say, because I always learn things. This adds to my knowlege and how to help other students and myself be a better teacher. the student then becomes a better to teacher, because they can rely information back to someone else.

sahbaa albayati

motivating students

tell the students some stories that i face during my career and this will give them some motivation

Traci Roy

Student Focus

As a Medical Assisting Instructor we rotate through different subjects about ever 12 weeks. By doing this it keeps us on our toes as far as keeping the student engaged due to the constant changing that goes on.

Tracy Burke

Motivational Examples

Some examples of effective motivation techniques that career college instructors can use in their classes would include the application of their real life (work) experiences. The expertise gained in the workplace can â€œfill in the gapsâ€ of what is not found within the textbooks. The students can view these experiences as an application of knowledge. Moreover, the instructorsâ€™ experiences can motivate the students to discover that their knowledge procured from the classroom can be utilized in a professional arena, as well as in a personal fashion. -TWB