Classroom Management: Meet With Failing Students

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Now let's talk about students who are failing your course. This will happen every semester. Someone gets behind and someone doesn't do well in your course. And I see it, after twenty years of teaching I it more and more today than I did twenty years ago. The pressure on students today is astronomical. Today they have families, they have jobs, they have maybe more than one job. They have a lot going on. So it's very difficult for students to keep up with their work load. But as soon as a student starts falling behind, by mid term if a student is failing, I strongly recommend that you set up a meeting with the student. Sometimes the students might not even realize how much trouble they're in. Or they might realize how much trouble they're in but think that it's hopeless. Or, you know they have an intention to do better but they just don't know how. So it's real important that you set up maybe a ten minute conference with a failing student. O.k., this is what we're looking at. This is what you've done. This is what you need to do. And come up with a plan for that student. You really should want your students to succeed. You really should not want your students to fail. So take ten minutes out of your conference time to set up a meeting with a failing student.

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