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CHIEVE @ CHIEVE @ INSPIRING ENGAGEMENT, RETENTION & SUCCESS STUDENT EVALUATION Did you enjoy the session? Yes No INSPIRING ENGAGEMENT, IfRETENTION SUCCESS you had to rate&the session out Do you feel the session has helped Yes to enhance your college experience? No of 5, (5 being the best) how would you rate it? The Pilot What did you enjoy most? The pilot of the Achieve @D&A project will be a very focussed programme launched in the Kingsway Campus. Looking to inspire engagement, retention and success the project will be directed towards the three lowest retention areas. The project is made up of 4 KEY areas: 4 WEEK FOCUSSED PROJECT HIRE RESOURCE KITS OPEN TO ALL DEPARTMENTS SPORTS INTERN LED SESSIONS KINGSWAY / ARBROATH ONLY SU/ LE LED 3 IDENTIFIED RETENTION GROUPS MONTHLY INCENTIVE PROGRAMME SU/ LE LED 4 Week Focussed Project Overview Week 1 Week 2 Energiser and teambuilding activity Team Challenge & Personalities • Introduce students and staff to one another • Set the tone for the coming weeks • • Help to get conversations going Help the students to start affiliation process – making connections, finding similarities with • • • STUDENT EVALUATION classmates Did you enjoy the session? CHIEVE @ Build on last weeks’ foundations Start to build confidence and team work Give students the opportunity to showcase INSPIRING ENGAGEMENT, RETENTION & SUCCESS various skills & aptitudes • Encourage a team connection – the activity will rely on everyone to make it work • Demonstrate the importance of difference, challenges which differences pose and heavily relate to achievement / career progression relate to industry and Yes No Week 3 Do you &feel the session has helped Motivators De-motivators Yes to enhance your college experience? • Session will start with another energiser • • • No If you had to rate the session out of 5, (5 being the best) how would you rate it? Activity harnesses open, honest feedback about motivators and de-motivators in learning and in life Encourage active participation in the students’ own learning experience and expectations What did you enjoy most? Actively explore thoughts and ideas around aspirations and the role of the college in the student achieving Week 4 Staff vs Student Challenge • Student engagement requires staff engagement! • Nurture friendly rivalry • Test team cohesion of students, in competing against staff • Incentivise learning and achievement