Address Emotional Reasons for Enrolling/ED 102 Student Retention
I generally do this in each class as a group. We go around the room and list all the different reasons that the students have decided to enter the program as well as their goals. Then we list the obstacles that the students experience while in the program. Then we discuss different ways to overcome those obstacles so as to not let them interfere with the important goals that the students have set. The entire class works as a team to help one another with whatever issues come up in this discussion.
ED 102- Student Retention discusses doing this in the beginning of the course as well as at the midpoint which I believe is a great idea and could prove to be very effective. It not only holds the student accountable but it helps them to refocus on what it most important.
