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Active Learning – Keeping students engaged

Active Learning – Keeping students engaged. Active learning for effective student retention. Forget about the fundamentals of retention (just for a moment! ) Instructors should focus on having your students come to school every day Understand the areas of accountability for faculty

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Active Learning – Keeping students engaged

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  1. Active Learning – Keeping students engaged

  2. Active learning for effective student retention • Forget about the • fundamentals of retention • (just for a moment! ) • Instructors should focus on having your students come to school every day • Understand the areas of accountability for faculty • Understand how the role of faculty has an impact on student success

  3. Quick Assessment Exercise • Write down the top 10 reasons why you think our students drop out of UEI • Discussion of possible reasons

  4. Active learning for effective retention • Top Ten Reasons • Childcare • Transportation • Illness • Family issues • Non support from family, job or peers • Lack of motivation • Instructors • Expectations not met • No connection with school • No connection with faculty

  5. Why do students drop from school? (Raisman,2008 The real reasons) • TEACHER DIDN’T CARE • Staff didn’t care • Expectations not met • No connection with faculty Attendance is the symptom NOT the disease!!

  6. Key Indicators of a disengaged student: • Absenteeism • Low grades • Discipline and/or behavioral issues • Lack of involvement in class and/or student activities

  7. Bottom Line….. Students have 2 things in common: • DREAM – You are either nurturing it or Destroying it and you don’t even know you are doing it! • FEAR – Students are absolutely terrified of making a mistake and you are either perpetuating it or disintegrating it! Students need POSITIVE vibes!! They hear bad things all the time!!

  8. Active learning for effective student retention • Example: • Confidence Monitor Before • Red Leather • Yellow Leather • Confidence Monitor After • This is how our students feel! 5 4 3 2 1

  9. Accountability + responsibility =SUCCESS TEACHERS Change Lives!! There is no such thing as “Unique Geographic Difference” Aka UGD

  10. Retention Basics ANYONE CAN SAVE A STUDENT! 3 Reasons Students find it easy to leave: • Something someone did that the student did not want or need • Something someone DID NOT do that the student DID want or need • Student did not make education a top priority

  11. What motivates students?... • Getting to know classmates and faculty • Developing a career path that interests them • Creating a career vision and plan • Understanding how their education will get them there • Believing their education is valuable and worthwhile • Developing long term self-sufficiency • Lowering their anxiety about graduating and getting a job • The desire to make more than minimum wage

  12. Tips for successful retention • Create the culture. Make everything revolve around retaining students and student success. Everyone at the campus is accountable. Partnership and ownership among instructors is a must. There is nothing worse than instructors battling each other or displaying anger or discontent with a school issue. • Embrace, engage, educate, empower, explore and entertain (active learning) your students. Create an extraordinary student experience. Provide excellent customer service.

  13. More tips… • Track students’ average daily attendance and reach out to them BEFORE it’s too late! • Inject excitement through events and activities to build social integration. Student recognition and achievements • Early intervention of students who have greater than 10% absence rate and students who have GPA less than 2.5. Meet with them and set up success plans • Create value in the classroom every day

  14. New Rules • When students come to you and say they must drop, our answer “no, you are not going to drop and I will look forward to seeing you tomorrow!” • “Tomorrow we will talk about your situation and we will take action, but you are not going to drop!” • CHANGE the CULTURE!

  15. Final thoughts There is no such thing as “At-Risk Learners” THEY ARE ALL AT RISK AND THEY CAN ALL BE SUCCESSFUL! “EDUCATION IS THE GREAT EQUALIZER OF ALL MEN” – Horace Mann

  16. Summary • Understand and summarize the fundamentals of engaging students • Understand and describe faculty accountability • Provide examples of “best practices”

  17. Group Activities Scenario based role playing: • First day of class-how do you build a culture of belonging and motivation? • Classroom Management- how do you address attendance issues with students? • Overcoming obstacles- how do you help students achieve academic success?

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