I'm not socertain it is always right to be positive. Some things are not possible. There are times when it might be best to tell people to move on.

Teachers should see themselves as offering good customer service to th students and to the administration.

You should be able to see when a student is starting to withdraw. Try a one on one alone to reach out. This helps my alot

Being an instructor as well as being committed to retention process, our students will automatically see that we care about their well-being in conjunction with their intellectual ability.

Team is SO important to any organization. Loan Soldiers usually don;t last long. Everyone working togehter to achieve a common goal is what is needed.

One of the quiz questions asked about a student coming out a classroom crying and what should you do? Of course I got it right. However, so often I see instructors who feel that if they intervene the instructor whose class the student lef tout of would look at them a certain way.

Workig for a for profit school, it sounds sometimes as if the focus is more on the money. But it is so important to not focus on that because if the students are treated right they will go out and tell others which will bring other students and the money will come.

I have said since day one if taking my new position and making sure that my students are coming to school and doing as they should that you have to be personable with your students. When the students know that you truly care abou them and their children or other family members you;ve won them over and they will trust you. You have to make sure though that you don;t break that trust.

I have always found that going into great detail regarding expectations during orientation helps ease the backlash of issues later on down the line.

I became baffled after watching an admissions rep at a school tell a prospective student that they were choosing the wrong program that they wanted to go into based on program numbers not based on what interested the student. I found this practice to be overbearing and the student dropped within 6 weeks based on the fact they were not happy in the program.

I find that it is very important to be consistent from the first day so that the students know what is expected of them.

I don't teach it anymore, but I used to teach the very first class of the nursing program. I would tell them that they were standing in a dark room holding a match. In a few days they would start to understand a few things, but it would be like trying to see the corners of the ceiling by match light. Each class they would get a progressively bigger light, candle-light, flashlight, ect. I told them at no point would they ever be in a room where the light showed everything, because no one can know everything. So, at times when you feel lost and like you are in the dark, maybe what you are trying to learn is just a match light. You just don't have it yet, but you will. And that if you feel like someone else is standing in a room full of light (and understanding) that there are dark rooms to them that you see without difficulty. Try your best. Because no one can know what they haven't been taught. Study. But don't beat yourself up because you SHOULD know it but don't. Look for other ways to see the problem. Look for other ways to seek the answers.

Mistakes are okay and can happen to everyone even instructors, I think emphasizing this point to student will help them stay positive and thus keep them motivated. Since failing and not doing well can cause great negativity in ones self keeping students uplifted and happy regardless of any out come will aid in there success in school.

I think its important to give students independance and confidence with there responsabilities in school so that if they see there class mates doing well then they will want to achieve these same goal in class as well.

It is important to change the dynamics of the classroom in order to keep the students engaged.

What we do here is, every 3 weeks one of our classes takes their students on a tour of the campus. This is the last class before the students branch off into their electives. The class visits all of the electives and the instructor from each class essentially does a presentation on what the class is about. We kind of "sell" the class, but most of the students do not get the full tour when they sign up, or they signed up from out of state and they have no idea what we offer until after they are here. So it seems that we have another role as an instructor here.

Homework should be broadly defined. It is not confined to academic tasks related to classroom work. Homework is also an opportunity for personal reflection on the meaning, significance, or symbolism of a recent experience/event such as college orientation. Orientation "homework" can focus admonishing students to work on a list of benefits they will receive from their graduation, how their daily routine will be amended to foster academic success, how family and friends see you now and how that perception will gradually change as you move toward graduation. Orientation Homework is the school's opportunity to encourage students to "Think Outside the Classroom Box."

Student age, maturity, and SES influences how well they perceive their possibility for academic success.

Intelligent heart really is caring and noticing other people and their feelings, actions and hearts. Paying attention to their reactions to what is happening to them in their lives.

While there is not a "one size fits all" retention strategy, there indeed are a "core set" of tenets that are fundamental for establishing, then customizing a comprehensive institutional strategy.