Get Your Students Hired
How to work with a lack of interest from students as well as building relationships for retention.
Comment on Tim Pope's post: I agree. This is why, our challenge as educators is not just as a teacher but our role also has been evolving into mentor.
Our campus strives for good professional relationships with the students and having them know we are with them every step of the way through their education and beyond.
Students need to feel part of the "team" or school as a whole and know that when they talk, staff will listen and problems will be solved. Our campus strives for strong student involvement and professional relationships.
I have experienced with my most recent cohorts that they don't come prepared with proficient knowledge, respectful behavior and a reality check on the time and level of commitment an online course requires. It's challenging because many "adult" students in their twenties and early thirties appear to have a sense of entitlement. As frequent as the communication is kept, they can't seem to be ok with waiting a normal response time. Challenging indeed.
Strong alliances and the campus climate are essential to student retention. I don't think I realized how big a role the teachers and other staff play in encouraging students to complete their program. This has encouraged me.
I loved learning more about the impact of strong working alliances with students and the reference to the work of Carl Rogers in helping to build rapport, trust, and providing unconditional positive regard to students. I also appreciate the research on how we can help students feel more connected to the institution through regular, quality interactions with us as instructors.
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Hi everyone, in this module I've learned how to increase the effectiveness of cultural responsiveness within the classroom space. The statistics were most helpful and painted a real picture of online vs. in-person learning. I believe in-line with the material that we should emphasize and empower the individual student with equity rather than equality across the board. I will work on applying this in my own classroom by tending to individuals on a face-to-face rather than the class as a whole. An example would be changing coursework depending on each student's weaknesses rather than curriculum.
Comment on Tim Pope's post: Hi Tim, I absolutely agree with you. We are in a new generation of adaptive teaching and learning. It demands that we be culturally responsive.
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I could not agree more to your comment! The lack of self motivation in so many of our students is difficult at times. Sometimes I feel thaat we want it more for the student than the student themselves. I have found that many times this perception is due to extranious issues that I am unaware of in the students life. Helping to motivate and encourage these students to achieve their goals can be so rewarding!
Open communciation is the best way to retain students, but also make them feel part of the process.
Building relationships with students requires many skills as the different genarations of learners have different expectations when it comes to being engaged, feeling that they belong at the university and how they learn, so also considering the culture of the organization weighs heavy on the retention process. Retention is a 360 degree process involving all in the educational setting :-)
The strength of the working alliance positively correlates to adherence to an action plan, increasing the likelihood of positive student outcomes.
I remember being a student and noticing how some instructors didn't seem to care and others who were genuinely interested in your success. Today's students seem to be pulled in all different directions and don't seem to be as focused.
It's all about the relationship you have with the students. Some are more engaged than others, but there should be some way of finding out what makes each student tick.
Despite the many positives of technology in education, we can not forget to teach the students the importance of interpersonal relationships