michaela yabroff

I believe timing is everything. By having instructors being aware of student attendance and academic progress, attrition can be avoided. An intervention can be put in place to help the student be less stressed. If attendance is the issue we need to find the unlying cause. The answer may be as simple as arranging carpooling for the student. When it is noticed early tutoring can be arranged to help the student get organized with class and be taught study tips. A lot of the time these inventions is all it takes to help the student feel less stressed or overwhlemed.… >>>

Our Placement departmen does an awesome job with the placing of students on their externship and helping them find jobs. I would like to see more integration of this progress throughout the program. We put the emphasis on this during the Senior phase. I think after the suggestions and ideas shown in this topic, I would like to see more used at our institution.

Our employers take the majority of our students for an externship. This gives both the employer and student an opportunity to see if they would be a good fit. The majority of our students do get… >>>

Our Admission Director has an on going relationship with all our students. We are a small college and faculity reports concerns and issues immediately.  As a result of the this retention especially with academics and attendance is addressed quickly. Tutoring is free at our college and students are reminded that it is available. We arrange car pooling for our students when needed.

We also use rewards and certificates for honor and merit roll. We are a clock hour school so perfect attendance is recognized every four weeks. The students look forward to receive these recognitions. We have community resources come… >>>

My biggest challenge is with students who are LD with ADHD. Keeping these students focused on the material and not disruptive in the classroom has been difficult. I am in a vocation school with professionals training professionals. We have not had formal training as teachers. We are getting creative to keep these students on task. One of the biggest things we found out that works for us is to put the students in smaller hands on classroom classes. If the student can be kept engaged with the task on hand the outcome is better.