Higher Education Project prt 7

Proposal

Tangela Jones

Walden University

Week 1 Assignment

New Student Support Program

Fitting in a new learning environment is one of the challenges that are affecting students in most of the higher learning institutions. The diversity that has been promoted in the learning sector leaves students in a tricky position, and this is because some of the students come from different countries and therefore they do not have people who they might have the same background. It is therefore essential for the institution to focus more on making sure that the students are absorbed to the learning environment smoothly (Oudshoorn et al. 2017). There is need to come up with programs that are helpful to the new students, and they should help to make sure that the new students do not feel like strangers as soon as they are absorbed by the institution.

A new students’ board should be constituted to make sure that when the new students are admitted in the school, they are helped to find their way around and also to be conversant with the environment (Lewallen, Hunt, Potts‐Datema, Zaza, & Giles, 2015). The board should have some of the senior students who should be involved with the students as soon as the students are admitted to the institution. At the same time, the new students should be informed that they can access the board and ask for help whenever they are stranded (Stiglitz & Rosengard, 2015). Some of the support that the board should offer to the new students is about the way around the school as well as the rules and regulations of the school.

Inclusion is also another way of making sure that new students feel as part and parcel of the school. The school should have students’ groups that partner in performing different academic and sports tasks. As soon as the new students are admitted, they should be introduced to the groups (Albashiry, Voogt, & Pieters, 2016). When students are introduced to groups, and at the same time they are engaged in school activities, fitting in becomes easier, and that is helpful to their academic lives.

References

Albashiry, N. M., Voogt, J. M., & Pieters, J. M. (2016). Maintaining Curriculum Consistency of Technical and Vocational Educational Programs through Teacher Design Teams. Man in India, 96(1), 599-608.

Lewallen, T. C., Hunt, H., Potts‐Datema, W., Zaza, S., & Giles, W. (2015). The whole school, whole community, whole child model: A new approach for improving educational attainment and healthy development for students. Journal of School Health, 85(11), 729 739.

Oudshoorn, M. J., Clear, A., Carter, J., Abandoh-Sam, J. A., Gonsalvez, C., Hitchcock, L., ... & Pearce, J. L. (2017, June). Integrating International Students into Computer Science Programs: Challenges and Strategies for Success. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (pp. 386 387). ACM.

Stiglitz, J. E., & Rosengard, J. K. (2015). Economics of the public sector: Fourth international student edition. WW Norton & Company.