Some of your students may be at risk for academic failure; if they do fail, they are apt to be ill-equipped to become productive citizens in the adult world. With the typical characteristics of students at risk in mind,
identify five strategies you might use to help such students succeed at school. For each one, describe what you would do in specific and concrete terms.
The Classroom Strategies box "Encouraging and Supporting Students at Risk for Dropping Out" presents the following strategies:
• Make the curriculum relevant to students' lives and needs.
• Use students' strengths to promote high self-esteem.
• Provide extra support for academic success.
• Communicate optimism about students' chances for long-term personal and professional success.
• Show students that they are personally responsible for their successes.
• Create peer support groups that enable students to provide mutual encouragement.
• Get students involved in extracurricular activities.
• Involve students in school policy and management decisions.
Examples of other potentially effective strategies (drawn from this chapter or previous ones) are the following:• Create a warm, supportive classroom atmosphere.
• Establish close, trusting relationships with students.
• Use instructional techniques that promote active interest and involvement in class (e.g., hands-on activities, class discussions, cooperative learning).
• Communicate high expectations for performance.
• Encourage students to set high yet realistic goals.
• Focus students' attention on short-term, specific goals.
• Provide rewards for good attendance records.
The response should include, in specific and concrete terms, at least five of these strategies; other strategies that can reasonably be justified based on principles of learning, motivation, or development presented elsewhere in the book are also acceptable.
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