Coaching to Increase First-Year Success

You may already know of Carol Carter, if your first-year learners are among the 200,000 students who use her book Keys to Success (Prentice Hall) in their First Year Experience class. In an email interview, Carter shared a few thoughts with Recruitment & Retention in Higher Education on what she asserts is one of the major retention roadblocks students face – a disconnect between themselves and the staff and faculty who work with them.

RR: Why does this disconnect exist?

Carter: Today’s students speak digital as a first language. They are often in a hurry, multitasking, and indirect. Many have been coddled by their parents and don’t know how to function on their own. Others lack basic skills in the areas of academic, emotional and social intelligence. Contrast this with the styles and personalities of most of the faculty on your campus.

RR: What’s the solution?

Carter: Many schools are putting faculty, advisers, and tutors through coaching classes to help them understand emotional intelligence—how to connect with students beyond the subject matter. If students come in to get help understanding quadratic equations from a teacher or tutor, but they don’t feel motivated to come back next week and the week after that, they are missing the chance to develop valuable discipline. Teachers and tutors can keep them accountable with interest, motivation, and drive.

We invite you to join us as Ms. Carter explores these coaching skills during her upcoming Magna Online Seminar. It promises to be an enlightening session, full of suggestions you can apply right away — and just in time for the beginning of the new school year!

Coaching Skills that Promote First-Year Success
(includes streaming video)
with Carol Carter
Date: 08/21/07
Time: 12:00-1:30 PM CDT
Cost: $259.00
Phone: 800-433-0499
Email: custserv@magnapubs.com

By participating, you’ll learn:

• More about the complexity of today’s students and be more realistic about their positive and negative traits
• The most common roadblocks to first-year students’ persistence
• How to become more versatile serving students’ needs
• How to engage students’ interest, motivation, and drive
• How to coach students in ways that will increase their chances of persisting through their first year

Cost: $259.00

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