Strategies and Approaches

There are a number of ways we can support our students who struggle.

• Specialized courses
  A specialized courses is a strategy for engaging students in content that more directly applies for their academic or life interests.  This includes courses such as an introductory course designed for liberal arts majors or a calculus course designed for business majors or biology majors.
  
• Extended meeting courses
  An extended meeting course is an approach where students are enrolled in a section of a course that meets more than an the standard section (more contact hours than credit hours). These extra contact hours are used at the discretion of the instructor to provide background reminders or for support on the course material within the same listed course. These extra contact hours can also include non-mathematical support methods such as study techniques or learning strategies.
• Co-requisite classes
  Co-requisite classes are support courses that are taken concurrently with their partner course.  The content of the course may include extended time on key topics, timely review of material from previous courses, and other supplementary ideas.  The content may be similar to that of an extended meeting model, but keeps the students mixed in with the students not taking the co-requisite class.
  
• Fall-back classes
  Fall-back classes (sometimes called parachute classes) are designed to accommodate students who discover early in the semester that they weren't as prepared as they wished.  The fall-back concept allows them to "fall back" to a course that will spend the rest of the semester better preparing them for that class.