Marlene Fares

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Although I despise being trained by a computer, I enjoyed the content. Retention is a large part of my daily job responsiibilities and office function. I work in Student Services in a career college of over a 1,000 students. Although we may have a retention plan as well as a committee to discuss our current trends and how to improve, the forums provided me with additional ideas from other colleagues and what their thoughts are about improving retention.

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ED104

This course reinforced that the methods I have used with difficult students has been most appropriate. I am glad that my strategies were effective as they did prove so in outcome and result. I did learn that I need to pay more attention to those silent students and incorporate them more in class discussion without singling them out. Teaching Sociology, the course is very discussion based and not all students are comfortable participating. I learn about the student at the end through the personal perspective paper which is required for them to write for the course. I will try these… >>>

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Students with IEPs

Working in Student Services, we monitor the IEPs for our students. Many of these students assume that their IEP will follow them in College. Although we make necessary accommodations for the students, we are not bound by law to follow the IEP in Higher Education. Students feel as though there should be continued support as they feel they still need. How can we possibly accommodate these students and prepare them at the same time for their career?

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Student groups

Students always sit next to or near someone they know. Therefore I have them count off by #s to get them into a group with student they do not know and have to work with in order to accomplish a task. I find this effective because students are forced to interact with someone they may not have otherwise. in preparing our students for the workforce, they will have to work w/ individuals from diverse backgrounds. We are obligated to provide an educational enviornment, and communication and appropriate interaction skills may not be consistent for each student. They can learn from… >>>

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Using the entire classroom

I use the enitre classroom to my advantage. I like to be interactive and I feel that it transfers over to my students in the classroom. Student engagement is very important in the Sociology class I teach because we discuss current societal issues that students can actively particpiate and share personal stories. I walk around the room so that everyone feels invovled and so I can be connected to each student, even if they do not like to participate. I do not know how to be still for longer than 3-5 mins, but I do not pace. I like to… >>>