Teaching At-Risk Students
Course Description:
This course is designed to help teachers develop the skills and strategies needed to effectively work with at-risk students. Through various hands-on activities, this course will help you develop an action plan to identify students who might be at-risk before they are too far gone and provide them with the support they need. You will learn best practices in online learning for at-risk students, how to build academic success for these students, and how to create a culturally responsive policy. By the end of this course, you will have the tools necessary to reach out to at-risk students and provide them with the assistance they need.
Course Objectives:
- Develop an action plan to identify students who might be at-risk before they are too far gone
- Learn best practices in online learning for at-risk students
- Understand how to build academic success for these students
- Create a culturally responsive policy
- Learn how to evaluate technical skills that are essential for successful distance learning
- Understand how to design active learning strategies for at-risk learners
- Develop student resilience among at-risk learners
- Learn how to devise surveys that can identify at-risk learners in web-based courses
- Understand different ways in which students develop and learn
- Utilize strategies for reaching out and providing assistance to at-risk students
