Steps to reduce the Dropout rate in Schools or Colleges

Let us look at some steps that help in reducing the dropout rate in your community or schools/colleges.

Make Learning Interesting and Purposeful:
Teachers need to take extra effort in helping slow and creative learners to connect to academics, in experiential ways. One of the powerful methods to motivate them to learn faster, is to guide them through the purpose of the text or content and to make it equally interesting for them to want to learn more. Getting glued to a syllabus is alright to some extent, but present a bigger picture of the subject / lesson, enlarging students' capacity to understand the purpose of learning it, in the longer run. By engaging students in your class, you are encouraging them to stay alert, attentive, learn effectively, contribute efficiently. As a result, giving no room for boredom or discontentment.

Availability of Schedules:
From the teacher's perspective, a student has to get acquainted with the class and teaching schedules. But what would happen if the student is under the mercy of a job or any other commitment that is making it a challenge for him to attend the school?

Observe the signs:
There are early warning signs that teachers, parents, or the school staff must observe. Be careful to know about the students with poor attendance, below average performances, behind credits, symptoms of withdrawal from involvement in class work or home work, etc. Intervention must be conducted regularly to learn about the student's response to the system, and take necessary steps to avoid dropouts.

Power of relationships:
Across cultures, relationships play a vital role in the lives of students. A trusted adult or a concerned teacher can be an influencing factor in a student's decision to stay back or to opt out of education. It is also important to create stronger bonds by supporting students in their academic, emotional, and social needs; along with grooming them to progress higher in life.

Involve parental guidance:
It is quite normal for a parent to involve lesser, as students get older and try to become independent in their progressive grades. However, it is essential to involve parents regularly in the activities connected to school or college. Teachers must take initiatives to update the parents on the student's learning curve. Give constant feedback indicating opportunities to excel and grow.

There could be other matters where some students just drop out due to wrong moves, academic hurdles, and negative perception on studies; consequently without earning a secondary school leaving certificate or without a pre-university college certificate or with whichever related course. Hence, they end up with low paying jobs and pile up insecurities within and outside the confinement of the society.

In essence, the onus falls on the teachers, parents and the educators to keep aforesaid guidelines in order to curb the level of dropouts in the city, state and in the country, for the betterment of the society and living.