Increase Retention on the First Day by Implementing an Engaging Day 1 Agenda
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Overview
We’ll never have another opportunity to get our students’ attention the way we do on the first day of class. Part of a great first impression is a relevant, engaging Day1 agenda. The first few minutes of Day 1 are crucial to fueling students’ motivation and energy, and helping them develop the confidence that they’re in the right place. Join us to learn about a retention program designed to support every student by providng them with the success skills and motivation to persist and succeed versus a syllabus, textbook, and grading system approach or the old-school system of identifying student weaknesses and providing at-risk students with support after they've run into difficulty. This program helps every student find a strong comfort level with their college and program choices, and helps them develop the motivation to commit to an education/career path and through to graduation.
Whether a student is in a Transfer, Undeclared Major, General Arts and Science or a career major, building the 'core curriculum' before the 'content curriculum' is essential to maximizing student motivation. Student motivation is dependent on three factors: creating an individual educational and career vision, developing the relevant success skills (high-performance change), and building relationships with classmates and faculty. These three factors are the real core curriculum.
Objectives
Participants will learn how to create an engaging Day1 agenda by:
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Discovering the #1 and #2 motivating factors in student motivation and retention
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Creating a welcoming, engaging and supportive environment
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Focusing on the 5 most important student questions on Day1
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Providing students with a professional program information package
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Building relationships with classmates and faculty with innovative icebreakers and activities that students will enjoy
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Talking about how course content links to employability
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Explaining to students that good academic/study skills will make college life easier for them
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Reinforcing that good work habits and a systematic approach to completing tasks are skills that every employer looks for
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Reviewing a Day1 first impression student feedback survey predictive of student satisfaction and retention
Who should attend?
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Part-time and full-time faculty at 2-year and 4-year, public and private institutions
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Department Chairs
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Instructionsal Deans
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Program Coordinators
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Student Retention Specialists
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Graduate Teaching Assistants
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Education majors
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Anyone interested in learning how to engage students on the first day of class
Who is the speaker?
Don Fraser conducts faculty and staff training seminars. Don is one of North America’s leading authorities on student success and retention. A professor at Durham College for the past 30 years, Don has delivered student motivation and retention seminars to over 18,000 college staff at various conferences and at over 350 colleges. He co-designed and implemented Durham’s student success program 20 years ago and has been working in this area since that time. Don has done a great deal of research on student success and retention and received a NISOD award for this work. He has developed a retention model—Making Your Mark, The Right Start to College—that has been adopted by many colleges and universities across North America. Don was a member of Ontario Colleges’ Task Force on Student Retention. Don has presented the Making Your Mark: The Right Start to College seminar at the following conferences:
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League for Innovation in the Community College
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Starlink Professional Development Network
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Association of Canadian Community Colleges (ACCC), 2002, 2003
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Career College Association (CCA), 2003, 2007, 2009
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Noel Levitz National Conference on Recruitment, Marketing, and Retention,
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1997–2007, 2009
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International Conference on the First Year Experience
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InnovativeEducators.org: Webinar, March 10, 2009 and Podcast February 2, 2009
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2009 McGraw-Hill Conference on Student Engagement
Feedback from Past Seminar Participants
• "Dynamic, great thoughts and ideas to take home with me. Makes me excited to make powerful changes."
• "The very best presentation of the conference. I am so excited to take these ideas and implement them at my institution."
• "Very motivational speaker - full of energy!"
"Thank you for the amazing workshop that you gave. It has shaken up my teaching practice in a really good good way! It seems like my new-found understanding of their perspective and ultimate goal (thanks for pointing that out, Don! - awesome and transformative information) was the missing link in the learning environment of my classroom! Awesome, awesome, awesome! Thank you!"
- Faculty member, Vanier College
Registration Information
You can purchase a single presentation or a pack of 3, 6 or 12. The more you buy, the more you save. For a single presentation, add the product to your cart and follow the steps. If purchasing more than two events, add the products to your cart and enter the appropriate coupon code.
Package Deals (for our products costing $345):
3 presentations for $750 - enter coupon code 3ondemand when registering (Save $285)
6 presentations for $1395 - enter coupon code 6ondemand when registering (Save $675)
12 presentations for $2140 - enter coupon code 12ondemand when registering (Save $2000)
If you are interested in ordering multiple presentations that involve our products priced at $200 or $545, please contact Val at val@ieinfo.org or call 303-775-6004 for the multiple discount. Please note: a presentation costing $545 counts as two presentations, as these trainings consist of two sessions. How does it work?
1. We email you a link and password that will give you access to the On-Demand Training presentations
2. You distribute the link and password to your entire faculty and staff via email
3. You will have access to these links for one full year
What are the benefits of On-Demand Trainings?
- Accessible: Email the trainings to your entire faculty and staff, so they can take advantage of training opportunities anytime, anywhere. They can watch in the comfort of their office, their home or while traveling.
- Cost-Effective: No travel required. An innovative way to provide your entire faculty and staff with a variety of professional development opportunities for one low price! The more you train, the more you save. The registration fee is per institution, not per person.
- Easy: It's as easy as point, click, participate. If you run into any problems, we're always here to help.
- Practical: Our training sessions focus on the most critical and relevant issues facing educators today. Our primary goal is to provide participants with the information, training and skills necessary to immediately implement positive change at their institutions.
- Top-Notch Speakers: Our speakers are subject matter experts and recognized in their field.
- Flexible: When you purchase an On-Demand Training, it is yours for one full year. You can use it whenever and as often as you want during the year, offering consistent training to all of your hires.
- Satisfaction Guaranteed: Our On-Demand Trainings are 100% guaranteed. Thus, there is no risk. If you are not completely satisfied, we will refund your money in full.
How will we use these trainings?
- Hybrid Professional Development: Distribute an On-Demand Training to faculty and staff at the beginning of each month and plan a discussion session at the end of the month to determine how you will implement the strategies presented.
- Online Faculty and Staff Learning Communities: Distribute On-Demand Trainings to faculty and staff so they can watch anytime, anywhere. Contact Innovative Educators at val@ieinfo.org and we will create an online discussion group specifically for your institution at no extra charge.
- In-Service Training: Plan a day and time to show an On-Demand Training in a lecture hall or large conference room and invite faculty and staff to attend a debrief immediately following the presentation.
- Staff Recognition: Develop a program around the On-Demand Trainings with monthly themes and recognize the staff members that implement the best idea related to the theme.
- Team-Building: Utilize these On-Demand Trainings to develop cross-functional and cross-discipline teams to foster collegiality.
- New Employee Training: Include these trainings as part of your new employee training program to ensure consistency.
- Implementation and Follow-Up: Use the guide and evaluation materials provided by Innovative Educators to plan, implement and track your progress.
If you have any questions, please contact Val at val@ieinfo.org or call 303-775-6004 for more information.
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