Q. How to promote teacher’s help in student learning?
Recommendations: Teachers provide guidance to students’ study groups.
Activities:
• Organize study groups for students, and assign teachers to help guide students to learn better. Also, encourage teachers to share their learning experiences and strategies with the students.

Q. How to enhance students’ collaboration?
Recommendations: Encourage students to discuss and share their opinions together.
Activities:
• Promote collaboration among students: peer networks have the ability to increase students’ enthusiasm for learning. Encourage them to discuss concepts, compare and contrast other students’ problem-solving strategies, and articulate their own thinking.

Q. How to promote teacher’s help in student learning?
Recommendations: Teachers provide guidance to students’ study groups.
Activities:
• Organize study groups for students, and assign teachers to help guide students to learn better. Also, encourage teachers to share their learning experiences and strategies with the students.

Q. How to enhance students’ collaboration?
Recommendations: Encourage students to discuss and share their opinions together.
Activities:
• Promote collaboration among students: peer networks have the ability to increase students’ enthusiasm for learning. Encourage them to discuss concepts, compare and contrast other students’ problem-solving strategies, and articulate their own thinking.

Q. What tools and activities to implement to enhance students’ learning opportunities?
Recommendations: Using more technologies and incorporate higher-lower grade students’ collaboration.
Activities:
• Integrate technology into learning activities, especially in the STEM and Language Arts subject areas. Technology-embedded activities provide students with more opportunities to enhance their reading and writing skills, as well as to assist in the completion of homework and school assignments.
• Host an annual School Expo. Also, promote higher-lower grade level students’ collaboration. Older students can practice their leadership skills and problem-solving skills. Younger students can learn sophisticated learning strategies from older students, and can develop an understanding of how to work positively with people who are older than them.

Q. How to help lag-behind students to improve academically?
Recommendations: School needs to provide financial support to provide additional help to these students.
Activities:
• Schools need an intervention and support system for students who lag behind in learning the curriculum. Schools need to provide additional help to students who lag behind in core subjects, either in school, after school, on weekends, or during the summer.
• Boards of education and school superintendents need to supply the financial resources to fulfill this mandate. This involves acquiring materials, information, or technology; manipulating schedules or release time to create opportunities for teachers to learn.
• Change in curriculum, instruction, assessment and changes in teaching should happen. Principals need to insure that teachers have the skills to help all students perform at high levels.

Q. How to encourage students to pursuit college education?
Recommendations: Take students to campus tours in university and set university goals for promising students.
Activities:
• Coordinate with nearby universities and colleges for campus tours.
• Encourage and recommend well-performed students to their desired universities, set them as examples to their peers if they have received admission.

Q. How to set up role models for students?
Recommendations: Having college students’ experiences available to your students.
Activities:
• Put previous students’ positive college experiences and achievements in your schools’ bulletin.
• Help your students connect with students who currently or previously attended the college your students want to attend.
• Invite your previous students who have successfully been admitted to college to share their college experience as well as suggestions for applying to college.

Q. What are the activities can be held for students to make them “feel seen”?
Recommendations: Preparing birthday gifts; having lunch with students together.
Activities:
• Deliver a birthday gift to each child with a handwritten card and something simple like a pencil. The important thing is to shake the child’s hand and wish them well on their special day.
• Host students for lunch or have lunch with a different class when you can.

Q. How to actively engage in students’ life?
Recommendations: Attend students’ activities; find commonalities with students.
Activities:
• Attend students’ special extra-curricular events and mention to the students that you enjoyed seeing them at the game, performance, etc.
• Find commonalities with students. It will be easier for students to connect with you if you have common interests, hobbies, music, backgrounds, etc.
• Attend special presentations in classes. When the students have worked on a special project be the guest to see the work that they have done.
• When students come to see you for disciplinary concerns, talk less and listen more. Have students process and articulate why they are seeing you. Ask questions such as:
– Why are you here?
– What will you do differently next time you are in a similar situation.
– What consequences would be most appropriate for your infraction?