Enhancing Student Retention

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Brenda Eley

students who dont care

sometimes I only want to care as much as my students care...

Brenda Eley

burn out

how do you deal with teacher burnout? After a while it gets hard to keep everyone motivated

Kenia Lopez

Graduates

Would you find that graduates would serve as good motivators to currently enrolled students?

Kenia Lopez

Instructor Motivation

What resources can we use to motivate ourselves as instructors.

Kenia Lopez

Student retention

How do you motivate a student that has difficulty coming to class be cause of personal life occurances?

Kenia Lopez

Negative students

How do you deal with students that are negative to all learning environments?

Brenda Eley

helping senior students retain information

I have a few senior citizens in my class, and I have noticed they are having special trouble remembering the material. Any suggestions for helping them retain information without seeming like I am being disrespectful to them/

Brenda Eley

students not getting along with eachother

I am curious as to what other instructors have done when faced with chaos and fighting among their students? These are adult college students who are not getting along and causing trouble with each other.

Bernard Austin

Student Retention.

Student Retention is very important for the student and instructor. It's important for the student because they will be able to obtain the information needed to develop the skills that are required to progress in their program. It is very important for the instructor because it allows them to receive the necessary feedback to ensure they are creating a fun and useful learning environment. Overall, Student Retention is very important for the school as well.

Bernard Austin

Understanding..

It is very important to understand the students in the classroom. This will allow instructors to adjust their teaching style while ensuring students fully understand the class concept. In addition, identify the way their students learn. This will allow the instructor to address any concerns that students may have about the course.

Lisdianne Rodriguez

Instructor motivation

What are some ways the instructor can get motivated?

Lisdianne Rodriguez

Refocus

How do you refocus a problem when a student is extremely affevted by a problem not directly involved with the material

Lisdianne Rodriguez

Retention

WHen life gets into the way of student attendance

Bernard Austin

Teaching Style.

Teaching style is very important in controlling the environment in the classroom. This can be difficult if the classroom is in a computer lab. Due to social media, students may update their status or comment on a friend picture. It's important to show that the information is not only important, but useful. When students understand the material and can relate to it, they find it useful. This is when they give 100% in the classroom.

Bernard Austin

Learning can be cool.

I believe the more technology that is used in the classroom, shows student how they can successful find information. A lot of students see the internet as a way to stay updated but not a useful tool to search interesting practices and tools to help understand a topic. Facebook and Twitter is used by many students to update each other. However, showing them how these social media sites can help with assignments and fully understand the background is shocking to most.

John Allen

Staying Focused on the goal

Students must see the value of setting goals with their education. Also have a good reason to want to participate in class

Dinesh Patel CHEP

student comes first

As instructor i agreed to the institution policy,but its not correct all the time some time that's affect instructor performance.

Riteshkumar Patel

STUDENT RETENTION

How can we deal with too many absemces

henry johnson iv

finding value in auto education

finding value can be simplified in the auto field. most students have worked or seen a issue with a auto at one point in time. by presenting some issues that can be resolved using processes being covered in the lesson it makes them eager to lear

henry johnson iv

new students

its was challenging at first to direct ambitions in the right direction of all students. giving them a understanding on how they will learn things that may not be as intriguing but at the same time make doing other things that are more interesting fun and easy

Related Learning Opportunities

ED102 - Student Retention Methods

ED112 - Influencing Student Motivation

ED144 - Student Empowerment for Learning Success

ED209 - Students as Customers

ED406 - Motivating Others

ED409 - Gamification in the Classroom

ED410 - Increasing Student Retention by Flipping the Classroom