<p> 130 Ways to Promote Student Success Focus On Learning August 2013</p><p>Don’t make a new plan, Stan – Create Solid Curriculum</p><p>1. The course outline is a legal contract and cannot be changed. Ensure your students understand clearly their obligations to the course.</p><p>2. Work with other faculty in your program to ensure evaluation is spread out so that students don’t become overwhelmed. Blackboard calendar is a great tool for this. </p><p>3. Create a syllabus that clearly outlines all work that needs to be completed, highlighting the dates and stick to it. </p><p>4. Refer to it often – multi-tasking leads to inability to concentrate – reminders help.</p><p>5. Ensure your evaluation matches the outcomes. </p><p>6. Discuss curriculum day 1 and periodically after.</p><p>7. Encourage questions.</p><p>8. Use a variety of ways to evaluate.</p><p>9. Relate curriculum to real world.</p><p>10. Make opportunities within curriculum to celebrate successes.</p><p>11. Encourage student community building to increase awareness of class assignments. Don’t need to be coy, Roy – See the potential in all students</p><p>12. Be open regarding all contact with students – especially evaluation. </p><p>13. Treat all students fairly – the perception of fairness goes a long way toward earning the trust of your learners.</p><p>14. Be generous in dissemination of information – the more the better.</p><p>15. Be generous and work closely with your colleagues – be a role model for how to behave in a professional environment.</p><p>16. Recognize and reward success.</p><p>17. Identify strengths.</p><p>18. Positive reinforcement.</p><p>19. Allow for practice of learning.</p><p>20. Value individual experience that they bring to the classroom.</p><p>21. Be aware of learning styles and learning needs.</p><p>22. Be approachable and transparent.</p><p>23. Have genuine concern for students: team meetings/sharing with colleagues.</p><p>24. Recognize we can learn from our students.</p><p>25. Build relationships to understand students (goals, career aspirations).</p><p>26. Flexibility. Don’t slip out the back, Jack – Make Connections </p><p>27. Keep a daily active presence – especially in online courses and in courses where you only see the students face to face once a week. </p><p>28. On the first day let students know when they can expect communication with you and stick to it.</p><p>29. Identify early your “at risk” students and let them know you are here to help. Give early formative assessment.</p><p>30. Collaborate with Student Support Services (Counseling, Tutoring, Centre for Students with Disabilities, Financial aid, Student Success Specialists, etc.).</p><p>31. Collaborate with other faculty to find “cross-curriculum” projects. </p><p>32. Learn names.</p><p>33. Find common ground.</p><p>34. Create peer connections through music.</p><p>35. Breakdown barriers: games and activities.</p><p>36. Provide early success: simple test of skills.</p><p>37. Show interest individuals.</p><p>38. Show that you care. Don’t just listen to me…..Put it in writing....make it available</p><p>39. Put it in writing</p><p>40. Say it aloud.</p><p>41. Repeat it. </p><p>42. Reinforce it (Pair/Share, help set up study groups.</p><p>43. Remind again. </p><p>44. Calendar: visual 15 week snap shot.</p><p>45. Video introductions to meet needs of variety of learners.</p><p>46. FAQ space on LMS. Updated regularly by students.</p><p>47. Manage and organize content: respect student’s capacity to absorb clear labels and instructions.</p><p>48. Multiple means of communication.</p><p>49. Office hours, open invitation and virtual chat.</p><p>50. Set expectations on day 1.</p><p>51. Encourage students to share resources.</p><p>52. Sustainability: less paper and post on-line. Just hop on the bus, Gus – Get out of the class virtually or otherwise! </p><p>53. Take your students on a field trip. </p><p>54. Take them on a virtual tour. </p><p>55. Bring in industry professionals.</p><p>56. Create ways to have students work with industry professionals.</p><p>57. Connect first year students with students in work placement.</p><p>58. Encourage students to work with students from other areas of the college. </p><p>59. Promote college engagement.</p><p>60. Connect in to professional conferences via live feeds/webinars.</p><p>61. Find apps for topic on internet or smartphone.</p><p>62. Peer mentoring.</p><p>63. Team building activities, fundraisers, outside of class gathering.</p><p>64. Competitions.</p><p>65. Showcases.</p><p>66. Visiting an agency.</p><p>67. Build models.</p><p>68. Pinterest.</p><p>69. Role play/acting out facts.</p><p>70. Case studies. Don’t need to discuss much – Use Active Learning and Collaborative Learning Techniques</p><p>71. Student engagement is the key </p><p>72. Use Active Learning Techniques. </p><p>73. Collaborative Learning Techniques </p><p>74. Use Discussion boards on your Learning Management System </p><p>75. Get the students talking to one another – it helps them learn.</p><p>76. Let your students come up with the questions. </p><p>77. Brainstorming.</p><p>78. Think, pair, share.</p><p>79. Role playing.</p><p>80. Field trips.</p><p>81. Self-reflection.</p><p>82. Modeling: guest speaker. 83. Small group work.</p><p>84. Field placement.</p><p>85. Jigsaw. Just drop off the key, (to success) Lee = Evaluation is the key to success!</p><p>86. Create authentic evaluation that is transparent. </p><p>87. Create a rubric or something similar that allows the students to see how they can improve.</p><p>88. Vary your methods of evaluation so that all students can be successful. </p><p>89. Take your tests before you give them and add on time for the students.</p><p>90. Don’t test what you have not yet taught. </p><p>91. Make turnaround time your priority – students can’t add to learning if they don’t know what they’ve done wrong.</p><p>92. Discuss results in class as well as on line.</p><p>93. Review areas of difficulty and reinforce learning.</p><p>94. Establish a 24 hour rule. </p><p>95. Establish communication with students that were not successful and create a plan for success.</p><p>96. Provide a choice of evaluation process.</p><p>97. Self evaluation.</p><p>98. Break down the evaluation in to milestone or frequent evaluations providing more feedback.</p><p>99. Rubric with critical elements and cautions.</p><p>100. Provide testing opportunities.</p><p>And get yourself free – Upfront work pays off!</p><p>101. Set standards for what you want for the students.</p><p>102. Discuss what plagiarism is and set up assignments that prevent the practice.</p><p>103. Teach group work before you expect students to work well within a group.</p><p>104. Set a code of professional behaviour based on your industry standards and encourage your students to follow it.</p><p>105. Deal with conflicts early before any escalation. </p><p>106. Incorporate industry codes in to every unit.</p><p>107. Multidisciplinary approach to conflict resolution.</p><p>108. Student contract.</p><p>109. Student input.</p><p>110. Develop rubric with students.</p><p>111. Integrate workplace expectations in classroom standards.</p><p>112. Attach semester assignments/rubrics to LMS at beginning of semester.</p><p>113. Post video explanations online for clarity and reference.</p><p>114. Inform students all work will be checked using plagiarism website. I wish there was something I could do to make you smile again – Create a joyful learning environment!</p><p>115. Studies show a positive link between and strong orientation program and student success. An effective orientation can span a couple of weeks to avoid information overload.</p><p>116. Let students know first day they will be successful and you want them to be.</p><p>117. Create an environment that promotes respect and the joy of learning.</p><p>118. Make a connection with each student. Knowing someone cares can have a powerful effect.</p><p>119. Use humour appropriate to the classroom and don’t be afraid of having fun.</p><p>120. See the positive in each and every student - you don't choose your students but you can choose your attitude toward your students - not all students are there for the reason you want them to be there.</p><p>121. Take good care of yourself – students can’t be successful if you’re not there! </p><p>122. Use video clips.</p><p>123. Add music and humour.</p><p>124. Respect them.</p><p>125. Share your work related experiences.</p><p>126. Model a positive attitude and model healthy behaviours.</p><p>127. Use ice breakers.</p><p>128. Allow for student input.</p><p>129. Make it interactive.</p><p>130. Use chat rooms.</p>