Strategic Approaches: Academic Success Strategies For At Risk Students
Format
Individual Presentation
First Presenter's Institution
Council For At Risk Student Education and Professional Standards
Second Presenter's Institution
NA
Third Presenter's Institution
NA
Fourth Presenter's Institution
NA
Fifth Presenter's Institution
NA
Location
Ballroom E
Strand #1
Academic Achievement & School Leadership
Relevance
This proposal relates to academic achievement . The methods shared in this presentation have been used to train over 20,000 faculty members across the country. Most recently at Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria, CA in spring of 2017.
Brief Program Description
This interactive workshop presents strategies for increased learning and teaching opportunities of at risk populations. Strategies include methods to increase and enhance student engagement, student achievement, and graduation rates of at risk student populations. Participants will engage in discussion, sample strategies, and summations of concepts. This workshop provides participants the opportunity to connect with one another and increase strategic applications to their current practices.
Summary
This proposal describes practical models for engaging and sustaining the interest of at risk students in the classroom. The ANTF model will provide easy to implement strategies for teachers, administrators, and counselors in order to engage and teach at risk student populations.
Evidence
This method has been field tested for it's effectiveness in a college in Florida. The empirical evidence for this strategy is found in a variety of research articles and findings related to culturally relevant teaching practices.
Biographical Sketch
Courtney Plotts is the National Chair for the Council of At Risk Student Education and Professional Standards where she overseas national certification content and training for K12 and college organizations. Courtney is a certified teacher, has a MA in education and MA in psychology. Her Ph.D is in psychology. She has taught for over 12 years in K12 and university settings and has been the acting academic director at Esperanza College of the Human Services and Community Development Department and a contributing curriculum developer at Delaware State University in 2016.
As youth Courtney was sexually abuse at the age of 11 and incarcerated as a juvenile in 1992. Currently, she trains faculty in methods that re-shape classroom dynamics for at risk youth and is a keynote speaker at a variety of conferences. during the year.
Keyword Descriptors
Policy, Teaching, Student Engagement, Graduation, Social Justice
Presentation Year
2018
Start Date
3-6-2018 2:45 PM
End Date
3-6-2018 4:00 PM
Recommended Citation
Plotts, Courtney S., "Strategic Approaches: Academic Success Strategies For At Risk Students" (2018). National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Conference. 133.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/nyar_savannah/2018/2018/133
Strategic Approaches: Academic Success Strategies For At Risk Students
Ballroom E
This interactive workshop presents strategies for increased learning and teaching opportunities of at risk populations. Strategies include methods to increase and enhance student engagement, student achievement, and graduation rates of at risk student populations. Participants will engage in discussion, sample strategies, and summations of concepts. This workshop provides participants the opportunity to connect with one another and increase strategic applications to their current practices.
