SLAC Presentation

1. Online Interventions for
students at risk
N A T H A N A E L G . L U L U
M A R I C E L F . M A N G U L A B N A N
J E R O M E D . G A L A N G

2. • Identify who are the Students at Risk
• Recognize the different contributing factors
causing student-at-risk
• Discuss the impact of drop-outs
• Know the best online intervention practices:
their advantages and disadvantages
OBJECTIVES:

3. DEFINITION
OF TERMS
AT RISK
HAVE A HIGHER
PROBABILITY OF
FAILING ACADEMICALLY
OR DROPPING OUT OF
SCHOOL

4. DEFINITION
OF TERMS
AT RISK
FACES CIRCUMSTANCES
THAT COULD JEOPARDIZE
THEIR ABILITY TO
COMPLETE SCHOOL

5. DEFINITION
OF TERMS
AT RISK
INDIVIDUAL STUDENT
WHO HAVE CONCERNS ON
SPECIFIC BEHAVIORS
OBSERVED OVER TIME

6. DEFINITION
OF TERMS
AT RISK
EXIT FROM K-12 EDUCATION
BEFORE COMPLETING IT. MAY
DROP OUT, FLUNK OUT, PUSHED
OUT, OR "AGE OUT" OF SCHOOL

7. DEFINITION OF TERMS
INTERVENTION
THE ACT OF INTERFERING WITH
THE OUTCOME OR COURSE
ESPECIALLY OF A CONDITION OR
PROCESS (as to prevent harm or
improve functioning)

8. DEFINITION OF TERMS
ONLINE
CONNECTED TO, SERVED BY, OR
AVAILABLE THROUGH A SYSTEM
AND ESPECIALLY A COMPUTER OR
TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM
(such as the Internet)

9. NOTE THIS
A student who fails several
classes is likely to be at-risk, but
a student who fails only one class
may not be. Conversely, a student
may be identified as at-risk due
to a variety of factors despite
not having failed a single class.

10. • ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
- not meeting the requirements necessary for
promotion
- falling behind other students of their age
- failing 2 or more subjects/courses
- not reading at grade level
CHARACTERISTICS OF AT-RISK STUDENTS

11. CHARACTERISTICS OF AT-RISK STUDENTS
2. NON-ACADEMIC INDICATORS
- pregnant
- parents incarcerated
- history of drug or alcohol abuse

12. CHARACTERISTICS OF AT-RISK STUDENTS
4. Low Socio-Economic Status
5. From a Single Parent Family
6. An Older Sibling Dropped Out Of School
7. Changed Schools 2 or more times
8. Average Grades Of 75 or Lower
From 6th to 8th Grade
9. Repeated a Grade

13. RISK FACTORS CATEGORIES
1. INDIVIDUAL
2. FAMILY
3. SCHOOL
4. COMMUNITY

14. EXAMPLE OF SCHOOL
FACTORS
• Excessive use of discipline methods such as
suspensions
• Disregard of individual student learning styles
• Institutional racism
• Lack of relevant curriculum
• Large enrollment/class size
• Lack of language instruction
• Lack of participation in school governance by key
constituents
• Lack of effective student assessment
• Lack of diversity in instructional styles

15. EXAMPLE OF SCHOOL
FACTORS
• Lack of professional development opportunities
• Lack of cross-cultural sensitivity
• Lack of appropriate role models
• Low expectations from staff
• Low parent/community involvement in school
• Negative and/or unsafe school environment
• Passive instructional strategies
• Raised academic standards without adequate
school support
• Rigid daily and weekly schedules
• Segregation by ability grouping or tracking

16. EXAMPLE OF COMMUNITY
FACTORS
• Lack of community support services
• Lack of community support for schools and linkages
with schools
• High incidence of criminal activity
• Unsafe neighborhoods
• High unemployment
• Exploitation of youth, including sex trafficking
• Lack of adequate health care
• Lack of affordable housing
• Proliferation of controlled substances

17. EXAMPLE OF FAMILY/HOME
FACTORS
• Numerous family responsibilities
• No parental involvement in school
• Low parental expectations
• Non-English speaking home
• Child abuse or neglect
• Domestic violence
• High mobility/TRANSIENCY
• Homelessness
• Little opportunity for learning outside of school
• Low educational attainment of parent(s)

18. Other conditions: it may refer to learning
disabilities, low test scores, disciplinary
problems, grade retentions, or other
learning-related factors that could adversely
affect the educational performance and
attainment of some students.

21. • unemployed , in poor health, living in poverty, on
public assistance, or single parents with children who
drop out of high school
• twice to slip into poverty in a single year and 3x to be
unemployed - earn less
• 8x as likely to be in jail or prison
• 4x less likely to volunteer; 2x less likely to vote or
participate in community projects; represent only 3%
of actively engaged citizens

22. • Undeskilled labor force
• Lower productivity
• Lost taxes
SOCIAL COSTS OF DROP-OUT
• Increased public assistance
• Crime

23. All those factors are still true today, and students
leaving their education prematurely remains an
enormous problem for the public school system. One
advantage is the promise that online learning holds as a
tool for engaging these students.

25. Online Intervention
Provide Activities
Engage
Modify/Contextualize
Home-School Partnership
Flexibility
Open-ended Activities
Differentiated Instruction
Connect Appreciation
Support Group
Collaboration

26. • Provide Online Activities
Word Games
Soduko for Math
Interactive Quiz
Time consuming & potentially addictive
Excites the learner; triggers curiosity

27. 2. Engage The Students
FB Messenger
Viber
WeChat & other social platforms
Need money to stay connected
Both engage in deeper and meaningful
teaching & learning experiences

28. 3. Modify/Contextualize
suit to the capabilities of the students
no one size fits all
Extra time to create a modified activities
Convenient and enjoying that may
awake the desire to learn more

29. 4. Flexibility
Provide flexible time for learners to
accomplish their assigned task to perform
May make the learner complacent and
may not prioritize the lesson
Ease learners difficulties in
connectivity

30. 5. Open-ended Activities
Allow learners to choose their preferred
learning output
Difficult to measure the learning of the
students
Learners tend to explore and
experiment creating deeper learning &
understanding

31. 6. Differentiated Instructions
Use of different instructional materials
Videos, gamified activities
Provide flexible learning tools
Utilize online apps and social platforms
conformed to the learner

32. 7. Connect
Provide real life situations
Understand the learners situation
seeing through the eye of the learners
understand the way they understood

33. 8. Collaboration
lift/ease the burden thus learning becomes
enjoyable
Bayanihan
One for All; All for One

34. 9. Create a Support Group
Utilize social media platforms
ex. FB Group, Chat Group, etc.

35. 10. Parents, Learners and
Teachers Partnership
TRIAD Partnership
Home is the first school where students learn
the first lessons in life where the Parents are
the first Teachers
School is the institution that learning
experiences to the students for future
careers