Make sure you set a common goal that everyone understands for your company. This will ensure that your institution will be successful.

Positivity is the key in the lock. If you can lead by a positive example, you and your students will be successful.

You Habits, Attitude, Expectations, and Beliefs are formed when you are five years old. It is important to recognize this and see how you and the students can be limiting your potential.

Model, Mentor, and Monitor are the three steps to student success. Take time out of your day and get to know your students because attention equals retention!

I work at an audio school, I am seeing a large number of students that are only interested in working in electronic music even though our curriculum covers a lot more of audio production than this. I have found it a challenge trying to keep some of these students interested because they feel they are never going to use this knowledge after they graduate, even though a lot of it can and should be used. In your experience and in the terms of retention to make sure these students are able to complete the schools requirements to graduate. What steps would you say would be important to generate interest in learning the stuff they aren't interested in?

Instructors must listen and watch our students to know there learning skills. We have so many different types of learning skills and we must adjust to each one differently. When the students see that we can comunicate with there style of learning then they want to be in class to see what else we can teach them.

The burgeoning of the number of career colleges throughout the U.S., has created competition between the private colleges/universities, public colleges/universities, and virtually every post secondary institution in the country. This is not a bad thing, because it opens the door wider for opportunity to the traditional and non-traditional student. Virtually all of these institutions have different policies and procedures. In addition many of them rely on the student's ability to get federal funding, or scholarship monies. To acquire and keep these students interested, and within the institution's walls is more than a full time job. Faculty, staff and the students themselves must feel the institution offers exactly what they need, in order to succeed. The Career College, in many cases, offers a valuable variety of courses. In doing so, career colleges provide a choice not offered by many four schools. From Certificates to Degrees the Career College provides differentiation of the classes offered versus the Community College, or four year college/university. Using these differences in classes, and providing the resourses discussed earlier, help to maintain and attract the non-traditional student, and the students that are seeking skill development versus disciplines such as marketing, biology, etc. But the most important issue is keeping the student interested, active and providing a learning environment, in which the student gets a return for his/her investment of time and capital.

It is difficult to be able to know when a student needs intervention, unless he/she comes to tell you about his/her problem(s). Each problem must have a discreet set of circumstances, and solutions. To counsel effectively, the instructor must be able to understand the sequence, and the gravity of the situations. For instance, if the rent is due tomorrow, and the student needs money to pay the rent, coming to you the day before levaves little time for the instructor to take action. In order for the student to solve his/her problems, time must be alloted for planning, resources acquisition, and most importantly, contact with the entity that is owed the outstanding rent. Using the survey first, then the verticle method of obtaining information will help to satisfy the instructor's understanding of how dire the situation is. It would be of value to offer services at the beginning of the course, indicating that the services are valuable and can be used or sought when needed. Above all, the instructor cannot make promises that cannot be kept, nor can he/she go against policy.

There are two types of stress: eustress-or good stress, when the student anticipates a positeve event; or the stress we are mostly familiar with the strain of dealimg with problems that are difficult to overcome. For most students we are concerned with the stresses that arise from attending college and personal stress, the inability to pay the rent, or some other such problem, which is not easily rectifiable. Solving the "problem" stress and the issues that it causes, can be unmanageable. Dealing with positve stress, is much easier of course, allowing the individual a number of different, choices resulting in a positive outcome. The stress involved with "strain" on the individual's life, can cause an erosive personality disorder, or other problems affecting the student's performance.

Unfortunately there is no "magic formula" to retain students in post-secondary education institutions. There are a number of reasons students leave, no one reason is responsible for the student becoming disenchanted with his/her effort to change their life. To retain a student, it would appear that several different methods must be employed, and consistenly used. Basic to the problem of student loss, is to find out WHY the student is leaving. Also, how firm is the decision to depart. In attaining answers to these questions, the difficulty resides in the truthfulness of the answers. ARE the reasons the students give truthful, and complete. In finding out this information, it is essential that the right questions be asked. Also, some information can be derived from the students overall actions, attendance, and inteest that he/she has shown in furthering their eductation at the institution.

Making them feel at home in your school and classroom is very important. I found that letting them know that it does not matter how long you have been out of school or what the age variety there is in the class room they are all there for the same education and skills needed to move on in there new career path. So for the first week getting the students to bond and treating everyone equal is also important grounds in keeping them.

I found that making orientation fun turning all your potential students feel more at ease but what do you do when you have one potential student at a time for your orientation.

Regards, As an Instructor I like to keep a positvie attitude,then I can see my students staying motivated,williness to learn, and participate, and most important not giving up.

greetings, We as educators must listen and watch for our students to know the feelings of each and try to help where we can and advise.

Regards, Always good to make a difference to the extra mile for our students and make them feel important so they are comfortable in our school, I always attempt to make my students feel comfortable in class and they have better results.

GREETINGS, Is very interesting when we are the mentors of our students as they then would like to follow our example. I personally had a student who followed all the advice I gave and still as of today I still thanking. Abdiel Laboy

Being there for the students, show them that they have what it takes to succeed. Give them a helping hand. Make each day count, make each day a sucess day.

Being an instructor, a mentor, a person that students trust. Help them succeed in college, and beyond. This is very gradifying to me.

your students feed off of your attitude

stay on your toes and be prepared each day.