Refer to established program especially designed to address issue. Provide encouragement, reassurance, and support. Provide positive feedback. Unclear Issues Student expresses vague dissatisfaction with educational experience. Student seems overly reactive to a minor problem.
Student is unmotivated and unfocused.
Student engages in external blaming. Responding to Unclear Issues Act as a sounding board as a means of facilitating exploration of the concern. Respond to student in ways that communicate empathy, respect, genuineness, and concern. Encourage active problem solving. Confront student about incongruence between behavior or talk and actions.