Model, Mentor and Monitor the Right Kind of Traits | Origin: RT104
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Best Practices to Enhance Student Retention --> Model, Mentor and Monitor the Right Kind of Traits
Post what you've learned about this topic and how you intend to apply it. Feel free to post questions and comments too.
Encourage student to have a positive self- talk as they work towards their goals, it will help them build efficiency.
Actively engage a long term commitment to student
Focus on feedback and keeping students engaged.
Build a rapport with your students so when you reach out to them about assignments and attendance, they feel you genuinely care about them and are motivated to make a change, get back on track, and achieve their goals.
What is important is listening to students and offering and empathetic ear. A lot of students go through personal and/or health and family issues. And sometimes an unlucky student can have all of them. If I can assist my students to help them pass the course while they are dealing with the difficult life stressors, then I feel I have mentored the right way not only to approach studies, but also how to treat others.
The monitoring piece can't be understated and it's very true that the moment a student is left alone without follow up for absences and assignments, they will fail and drop from their program.
It is teamwork in the school that helps the student's success. Every department mentors, guides, listen to the student's needs or concerns.
Model, Mentor, and Monitor in a great way to gain insight into the students individual needs and challenges to be successful in the program. To retain the lessons, and to find a passion for the career they will be embarking in at completion of the schooling.
We all need to do modeling, mentoring and monitoring for all students for their success.
Model, Mentor, & Monitor tells us that our students rely on our guidance to help them to be successful. The saying it takes a village can be applied in any situation if we work together. Students depend on us to guide and monitor them which will in turn allow them to model what they have learned. Using the 3 M's can help us to do this and so much more.
Modeling, mentoring, and monitoring the right traits helps create a culture where students feel supported and empowered to succeed. In the Library, I plan to apply this by modeling effective research behaviors, mentoring students on how to use resources efficiently, and monitoring engagement with our items/digital collections to identify students who might need extra support.
I have learned that if we pay attention to our students, they will be successful in the class.
By listening to our students we can develop professional relationships that will help them achieve academic success!
Us as staff needs to model what we expect from our students while also remembering there is room for growth.
Just a little attention can go a LONG way!
We should model the behaviors we expect to see in our students, mentor, and monitor by checking up on them periodically. This has been shown to increase retention.
Students thrive when they are given extra attention.
Reaching out to students has gone a long way with a task that is so small and simple. For students I notice who are absent or did not do well on an assignment, I like to email them and ask them if everything is ok or if there's anything I can do to support them. Often times the student is very gracious for the email, will show up more often in class, and will put in extra effort because they want to reflect the care in their work that they feel was extended to them.
Having expectations for the students and being consistent with the expectations will help them learn certain skills that will make them successful. We also need to be modeling these same expectations to set the example for them. Another thing would be to have the students come up with expectations for us as an instructor.
