Developing Academic Stamina in First-Year Students

(Retired)
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Developing Academic Stamina in First-Year Students

(Retired)

Table of Contents

Overview

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

Why is this event retired?

At AI we want to always ensure that the best and most current trainings are available to members, and we regularly review our trainings to ensure that is the case.