This document discusses strategies for helping at-risk students achieve academic success. It outlines how getting to know individual students, creating action plans tailored to their needs, and taking a student-centered coaching approach can help address barriers and improve retention, performance, and goal achievement. Key elements include understanding each student's situation and learning style, setting realistic goals, regularly following up, and focusing on developing skills and mindsets for overcoming obstacles. The overall impact of student success support depends on giving context-specific help to facilitate engagement and reduce dismissals.

1. At-Risk Student
Presented by: Mike Patrick
March 15, 2016

2. “No one can go back and make a brand new start.
Anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”
~Unknown~

3. What Will be Discussed Today
Academic Success
Why Get to Know Your Students
Academic Probation Action Plan
Best Practices

4. Academic Success
Achieves student retention
Meets and exceeds minimum
academic expectations
Addresses the student as a whole
Enhances skill set
Encourages mind set

5. Elements for Academic Success
Understanding the First-Year Immune System
Effective listening
Applying strategies for success
Identifying obstacles through a digging discovery approach
Individual Treatment

6. Why Get to Know Our Students ?
To understand the student’s ultimate goal
Find out what outside factors may be preventing
success
Find out what sort of learner the student is
To ensure the student is effectively using the LMS
Resolve the feelings of Desolation, Embarrassment, and
Disappointment
Create an action plan that suits the individual student

7. Strategies for Academic Success
Dialogue versus monologue
Relay vested partnership
Adjust to student needs
Introduce growth mindset
Attitude of persistence in face of obstacle
Discuss course descriptions
Discuss professor feedback
Consider second voice

8. Student Success Action Plan
Comprehensive SOP
Discuss and assess barriers
Discuss academic status and policies
Support student through active conversation
Engage a partnership to create realistic action plan

9. Academic Probation Action Plan
State the objective
Discovery
State a desired change
Wait for a response
Discuss solutions
Action plan
Follow-up

10. Best Practices
Success coaching through a student-based approach
Listening for meaning and feeling, not just words
Clarify ambiguous points by asking appropriate questions
Engage a partnership to create realistic action plan
Proactively approach future terms

11. The impact of student success
depends on the context in which support is given
Permanent Success
Student
Success
Reduce Dismissals
Reduce Failure
Facilitate Performance
Engagement

12. Final Thoughts
Success coaching helps students to get the most out of
their college experience
Individual, student-based approach assists students in
identifying, planning, and achieving their academic
goals
By aiding the development skills, attitudes, discipline,
and understanding, we are helping to ensure the
satisfactory progress of our students

13. Questions