Dropout Prevention
A resource that lists 6 strategies for preventing dropout.
What is What Works Clearinghouse?
What are students with disabilities?
This is a reading strategy that accelerates students' achievement in reading through the promotion of student collaboration.
What is PALS?
The number of roles in a CSR cooperative learning group.
What is 4?
This executive functioning skill allows the student to come prepared with necessary materials and keep track of personal belongings.
What is organization?
A way to meet personal and academic needs.
What is adult advocates?
Students benefit from instruction in this type of setting.
What are small groups?
This is a reading strategy that focuses on pairing high performing students with low performing students during the activity.
What is PALS?
The two things that you have to do while reading the text when using the CSR strategy.
What is summarize the important information of the section and write unknown vocabulary down?
This executive functioning skill allows the student to identify goals, make plans to meet goals, and break down tasks into simple tasks.
What is planning and prioritizing?
There is a correlation between dropout rates and this.
What is low attendance?
Students should be provided with this to improve academic performance.
What is academic support?
This is a PALS activity where two student partners work together to read a page by splitting it in half and discussing it.
What is prediction relay?
These are the four roles in a CSR cooperative learning group.
What is leader, clunk expert, gist expert, and announcer?
This executive functioning skill allows the student to remember directions and hold multiple thoughts in mind.
What is working memory?
Schools should implement programs that improve students' behavior and what?
What are social skills?
Effective interventions should address these two things.
What is school and home life.
This is a PALS activity where a student and their partner need to break down a paragraph and summarize it with 10 words or less.
What is paragraph shrinking?
We should teach the CSR strategy to help students comprehend more of this type of text.
What is expository text?
This executive functioning skill allows the student to start tasks independently and turn in work on-time.
What is task initiation and completion.
Students with a strong _______ are less likely to drop out.
What is community involvement/engagement?
What is relevant?
This is a PALS activity where the students go back in the text and retell what they read and then tell their partner.
What is partner reading with retell?
These are the four elements that need to be incorporated into the CSR strategy.
What is prior knowledge, vocabulary development, questioning techniques, and opportunities to practice?
This executive functioning skill allows the student to see things from other perspectives and adjust to the unexpected.
What is flexible thinking?