Early Childhood Students Retention

Retention is not a positive option for students. There are many negative effects of retaining a student that affects them in the present and years to come. The biggest negative effect of students who were retained is more likely to end up dropping out of school in later years. Research shows that they are more negatively impacted from retain than positive effects.it can have a intense effect on a student’s socialization skills. Students can become depressed after separating them from children that have been in their social circle for a substantial amount of time. Students can become depressed and or develop poor self-esteem as effects of retention. They tend to be physically larger or more developed than students that are a year younger. …show more content…
Students should be targeted as early as prekindergarten and kindergarten. Educators need to consider the following steps to improving student achievement between pre-k through to the third grade. The following are good early intervention steps in early childhood students:

Identify struggling students within the first few weeks of school.
Create an individualized intervention plan to meet that students individual learning needs.
Meet with the parent within a month of initiating that plan. Be straight forward with them, provide them with strategies to implement at home
Adapt and change the plan if you are not seeing growth after a few months.
Continuously update the parents on their child’s progress.
Document everything including meetings, strategies used, results, etc.
Conduct any appropriate testing including a speech, hearing and vision

If a good strategic plan of action is identified and implemented student achievement will benefit in the future educational life of struggling student. This will be a positive effort in improving the achievement gap of students building self-esteem, a positive outlook to learning in struggling students and