Kelly Martin

Location: long beach, ca

About me

I am a dental assisting Instructor. I worked in a dental office for over 20 years, I decided to try something different. I have been an Instructor for 5 years and I really like it alot. I would like to learn more about being an effective educator and learn how to teach my students soft skills. The area were I teach seems to have a cocentration of students that need a professonal role model and to be taught professional skills, and how to communicate professionally.

Interests

developing my teaching skills, enhancing student retention, leadership skills

Skills

allied health professional, rda, cda, aa, concentration in orthodontics

Activity

Kelly Martin

Discussion

Retention

Does anyone have a solution for starting a carpool among students? How are liability issues addressed? What are the retention success rates with that type of program in place?

If your school has a carpool program how was it started? Who monitors it? I would really appreciate any type of information and feed back about this program.

Thank you

Kelly Martin

Blog Comment

"One Word"

Hi Kevin,

I totally agree with your "One Word". I make every effort to learn the students name's as quickly as possible and spell and pronounce them correctly. Just that one little simple courtsey means so much to them that I took the time to learn their names demonstrates my caring for them as individual students, and that they are important and they mater. I think that is a very good foundation to start the class off with, making them feel important and cared about.

Kelly Martin

Blog Comment

what helps students participate?

Reply to Tyree Scott's post:

Hi Tyree,

Wow, you are so right. I just finished a module with a lot of paper-work homework. I noticed that I had a hard time keeping up with the grading of the student's homework, and some exercises I did not give the students individual feedback at all. I noticed a lack of participation and motivation the less I was able to respond in a timely maner. Lessons learned, Next module I will recommit to the students to give more timely feed back and a lot more encouragement, to help them get the sense… >>>

Kelly Martin

Discussion

Retention

I find that if I group my new students with some existing students and I assign group work, I have found a higher retention rate among both the new students and the existing students. I am creating an immediate need for the new students. They are part of the team and they want to succeed and they want their group to succeed. Part of the group work requirement is insure that all team mates are present to get full credit on the assignment. The team leaders meet with their group and keep me informed of the group participation and alert… >>>

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