The instructor is the real key to student retention at any educational institution. Instructors must keep focused on student motivation and retention each and every day of class. Developing strategies for retaining students throughout the entire training sequence is both complex and rewarding. All instructors should have the goal of seeing all of their students successfully complete their class. This course helps you reach that goal by helping you to understand your students and use proven motivation and retention techniques to keep them enrolled and engaged in the learning process.

Module 1: Understanding Student Characteristics

• Recognize various student characteristics that make up a diverse learning environment.
• Address the most prevalent sources of student fears and frustrations.
• Identify both intrinsic and extrinsic student needs that influence student learning and assess how these needs can be supported.

Module 2: General Strategies for Student Retention

• Provide different student supports to enhance the learning environment.
• Utilize methods, as the leader in the classroom, for creating personal student learning experiences.
• Apply strategies for enabling students to set goals and enjoy success, ultimately leading to student retention.

Module 3: Keeping Your Focus on the Students

• Apply the concept of 'learnativity' by creating ways for students to actively engage in the learning process, and assimilate instructional content and applications.
• Build rapport with students by recognizing verbal and nonverbal cues that instructors send in the learning environment.
• Refocus your own instructional effectiveness and capitalize on your strengths as a professional teacher.

Module 4: Motivating Your Students

• Explain reasons for learner motivation and identify ways to appeal to motivation needs.
• Utilize components of the motivation process such as reinforcement, content retention and transference.
• Describe qualities that make a motivating instructor.