Learn how you can help students increase their “academic stamina†through the improvement of 4 essential non-cognitive skills.

 

Agenda

 

• Overview of the connection between non-cognitive indicators and first-year student retention
  • Background
  • Efforts to promote persistence
  • Efforts to promote performance
• Facilitating discussions with first-year students on their assessment results
  • Interpreting non-cognitive assessment scores for students
  • Types of discussions: one-on-one and group
  • Main factors to emphasize
  • Getting student buy-in
• Assisting students to create an educational action plan based on their strengths and weaknesses
  • Developing the plan
  • Helping students implement and use the plan
  • Sample action plan
• Improving first-year students’ skill levels
  • Helping students implement the action plan
  • Using effective instructional strategies
• Final thoughts and Q&A

 

Resources

 

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