Student success statement

Student Success Statement 

"Choosing the right is always the best thing to do."

Alex Linares

Reflection: 

This reflection means that by choosing the right is way better. Choosing the right will get you everywhere in life.

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Tip 7. Communicate Your Schedule to Others

If phone calls or text messages are providing to be a distraction, tell your friends that you are only available at certain times of day and not to expect a response at other times.

Tip 8. Become a Taskmaster

Give yourself a time budget and plan your activities accordingly. Figure out how much free time you have each week before you add any commitments.

Tip 9. Don’t Waste Time Agonizing.

Instead of agonizing and procrastinating, just do it. Wasting an entire evening worrying about something that you’re supposed to be doing is not productive, and can increase your stress.

Tip 10. Determine Your Priorities

You can’t do everything at once. Establish the importance of each item. Then set realistic goals that are attainable.

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Tips from college students

Tips From College Students

Tips for High School to Prepare for College

1.      Be prepared to do a lot of reading in college.

2.      Learn time management: use a calendar and plan how to use your time. Learn to manage your time while still in high school, keep a calendar of all exams and paper due dates.

3.      One of the biggest transitions between high school and college is development of time management skills- students must learn to balance high school and social life.

4.      Be prepared to discipline yourself, as the temptation to slack could be great. If you miss 4-5 classes in a semester, you may not make it through the semester successfully.

5.      Being sick affects your ability to be a student and remember that community living contributes to the cold/flu season.

6.      Learn to read – summarize and outline reading

7.      Learn to take notes in class.

8.      Learn to study.

9.      Start the college and scholarship search as early as possible.

10.  Take as many science, math, English, and foreign language courses you can: they build a foundation for college.

11.   Participate in volunteer and community service programs. It helps get scholarships!

12.   Take advantage of the advanced classes offered in high school.

13.   Think about what characteristics in a university are of most importance to you ( climate, environment, degrees offered, size, location, etc.) before making a final decision about attending college. Visit them if possible.

Advice from University of Portland Students

1.      “ I think the most important thing to let high school students know is not to overlook anything. When I was in high school I often asked myself, “why do I need to know this?” then if I didn’t think it was pertinent, I wouldn’t bother to study it. But in college, all those seemingly unneeded tools come together in the real life (e.g: finding and intersection of those two lines in algebra is later important in cost/ revenue calculations). In the way of classes learning to read and write well is very important. The focus should be on the format and clarifying ideas in writing, and being able to pick out the important parts of writing (the testable facts). Volunteering and joining clubs are important to get into the college of your choice.”

2.      “I’d advise the students to take as much math as they can high school.

Student Success statement

Student Success Statement 

"Improvement begins with I"

Reflection: That whatever you do in life your the one that has to make your decisions. It's up to you to do right in life, or to CTW.

7 habits (part 2)

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

Habit 7

Part 2

Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw

3) Heart: always do what is right so your heart, your conscience, will feel peaceful. When you do wrong, your conscience will prick you and create regretful sensations within your heart. When you do what you honestly feel, you won’t have any regrets. Your heart is your internal compass- it gives you direction and discernment. Just like a magnetic compass gives directions, even true north, your personal compass, your heart, will point you in the true north, the exact directions and paths you need to trod.

4) soul: Study scripts and other sacred literature daily. In other words, feed your spirit because your spirit needs spiritual food just like your physical body needs temporal food to survive. Pondering, meditating, and reflecting are excellent Soul-sharpening activities. Try writing your thoughts, feelings, aspirations, concerns, and decisions in a dairy or journal. Writing helps you focus and make good decisions.

Get into the habit of daily improving body (physical fitness), your mind, your heart, and your soul.

Choose the Right!!!

Habit 7

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

Habit 7

Part 1

Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw

Teens should never get too busy living to take time to renew themselves. When teens “sharpen the saw” they are keeping their personal self sharp so that they can better deal with life. It means regularly renewing and strengthening the four key dimensions of life-body, mind, heart, and soul

1)    Body. Eat wholesome foods, fruits, vegetables, legumes. Avoid illegal drugs, smoking, alcohol, tobacco products, tattooing. Exercise regularly and effectively. Get plenty of rest at night. Get to bed early at night and get up early each morning. “Early to bed early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”

2)    Mind. Think positively. Read. Study. Think. Analyze. Seek to read a good book each month. Then each week. Ask intelligent questions. Observe. Develop your mind through positive “self-talk.”

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reflection

Student Success Statement 

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do much."

Helen Keller

Reflection:

This post is trying to say that when your with someone, you could do way better. But when you are alone you  do so little because you are working by yourself. Like when you are with people you accomplish a lot because you have people doing all sorts of things and when you are alone your doing everything by yourself.

habit 6

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

Habit 6

Habit 6: Synergize

Synergy is achieved when two or more people work together to create something better than either could alone. Through this habit, teens learn it doesn’t have to be “your way” or “my way” but rather a better way, a highly way. Synergy allows teens to value differences and better appreciate others. Synergy is the reward, the delicious fruit you’ll taste as you get better at living the other habits, especially at thinking Win-Win and seeking first to understand. Learning to synergize is like learning to form V formations with others instead of trying to fly through life solo. You’ll be amazed at how much faster and further you’ll go. Synergy doesn’t just happen. It’s a process. You have to get there. And the foundation of getting there is this: Learn to celebrate differences.

A good is a great example of synergy. It’s not just the drums, or the guitar, or the sax, or the vocalist, it’s all of them together that make up the “sound.” Each band member brings his or her strengths to the table to create something better than each could alone. No instrument is more important than another, just different.

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student Success statement

Student Success Statement

“So often, in our quest to be more popular and to be part of the “in-group,” we lose sight of things that are far more important.”

Sean Covey

Reflection:

This quote is trying to say that when you are busy trying to be popular, your forgetting about the most important things in the world. Like to do good in school or to behave. But it all depends on you doing better.

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens (Habit 5)

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

Habit 5

5. Seek First to Understand, and then to be Understood

 Because most people don’t listen very well, one of the greater frustrations in life is that may don’t feel understood? This habit will ensure your teen learns the most important communication skill there is; active listening.

Why is this habit the key to communication? It’s because the deepest need of the human heart is to be understood. Everyone wants to be respected and valued for who they are- a unique, one-of-a-kind, never-to-be-cloned individual. People won’t expose their soft middles unless they feel genuine love and understanding. Once they feel it, however, they will tell you more than you may want to hear. People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.

Listen with your eyes, heart, and ears. 7percent of communication is contained in the words we use. The rest comes from body language (53 percent) and how we say words, or the tone the feeling reflected I our voice (40 percent).

Most people are eager to talk and had rather talk than listen. We have one or mouth and two ears. This means we should listen twice as much as we talk. Listen to learn.

Listen, really listen, for understanding.

Seek first to understand then to be understood- Listen.

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7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens Habit 3

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

Habit 3

Habit 3: Put First Things First

Habit three is about Will and Will Not power. This habit helps teens prioritize and manage their time so that they focus and complete the most important things in their lives. Putting first things first also means learning to overcome fears and being strong during difficult times. It’s living life according to what matters most. Putting first things first deals with things that are:

Important or not important, urgent or not urgent. Let’s look at the four quadrants of tine management.

Quadrant 1: Things that are Important and Urgent

Quadrant 2: Things that are Important or not Urgent

Quadrant 3: Things that are Not Important but are Urgent

Quadrant 4: Things that are not Important and Not Urgent

1.important & Urgent	2. Important but not Urgent
3.Not important but are Urgent	4. Not Important and Not urgent

Quadrant 2 is the ideal place to spend our time, doing things that are important but not urgent. Here’s where priorities come into play.

The results for living Quadrant 2 are:

1.     Control of your life.

2.     Balance

3.     High Performance

So, in what quadrant are you spending most of your time? The key is to shift as much as possible into Quadrant 2 and this is accomplished by planning. Spend more time planning and incorporating the most important things first, things that matter most. Keep your eyes on the prize and reach for it.

7 habits of Successful Effective TEens

7 Habits of Highly Success Effective Teens

4. Think Win-Win

Teens can learn to foster the belief that is possible to create an atmosphere of Win-Win in every relationship. This habit encourages the idea that in any given discussion or situation both parties can arrive at a mutually beneficial solution. Your teen will learn to celebrate the accomplishments of others instead of being threatened by them. Win-Win is a belief that everyone can win.

Win-Win always creates more. Perhaps the most surprising benefit of thinking Win-Win is the good feelings it brings on. The true test of whether or not you are thinking Win-Win or one of the alternatives is how you feel.

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ctr!!

3. Make sure the faulty knows you. Sit in the front of the classroom. Participate in class discussions. Consult with your teachers during office hours.

4. Use a daily planner. Note the dates of exams, assignments, term papers, etc.

5. Be organized. Prioritize your responsibilities. Manage your time. Remember everyone has the same 168 hours a week, only some of us use them better than others.

6. Know your campus resources. Visit your Academic’s Dean Office regularly. Become familiar with the service and programs offered by the Counseling Center, the Career Center, the Campus Ministry Office and the Student Life Office.

7. Take care of your health. Get enough sleep. Eat well-balanced meals. Exercise regularly. Make informed and mature decisions about alcohol, sex and drugs. Visit the Health Office as needed.

8. Work only as necessary. Try not the exceed 20 hours during a school week. If possible, work on campus. Apply for financial aid and loans if you need them. Manage your expenses very carefully.

9. Get involved in campus activities. It will help you learn valuable skills, expand your social network and enhance your self- confidence. Seek out opportunities to apply what you learn in the classroom.

10. Keep your eyes on the prize. Clarify your goals. Know why you are in college in the first place. Visualize your success on a daily basis.

CTR!!

student success statemtn

Student Success Statement

“Keep your eyes on the prize.”

Anon

Reflection:

I think this reflection means that in order to get the prize you have to choose the right. Like if you want to graduate high school, you have to do good in school. The prize will be to graduate and move on to high school.

reflection

"Its not Where you but HOW you live that counts. It's not where you play the game but How you play the game that counts."

Mr.Haymore

Reflection:

it doesn't matter if your rich or poor, it matters how you live your actions.

It doesn't matter if you win or loose, it matters if you played fairly.

success statemen

Profile of a Successful Student

A successful student…

….Takes responsibility for his/her own learning

Online learning can  be a powerful, stimulating, engaging experience for the student who can work and think immediately. However, since most- if not all- of the learning takes place on your own time, you will not have the kind of direct supervision you would in a classroom. Online learning therefore requires a significant commitment from you. All education comes down to what you’re willing to invest in the experience- this is particularly true in the online environment. Commitment, self-discipline and self-motivation are all key qualities to ensuring success in an online course!

…is comfortable and confident with written communication

Reading and writing are the basis of most online courses, so it’s critical that you feel comfortable with his form of communication.

Successful Students

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10. Successful students are good time managers. Successful students do not procrastinate. They have learned that time control is life control and have consciously chosen to be in control of their life.

An elemental truth: you will either control time or be controlled by it! It’s your choice: you can lead or be lead, establish control or relinquish control, steer your own course or follow others. Failure to take control of their own time is probably the no. 1 study skills problem for college students. It ultimately causes many students to become non-students! Procrastinators are good excuse-markers. Don’t make academics harder on yourself than is has to be. Stop protracting. And don’t wait until tomorrow to do it!

The 10 items listed above paraphrased from an article by Larry M Ludwig called Ten Commandments for Effective Study Skills which appear in The Teaching Professor, December, 1992.

“Learning Technologies and Online Education”

CHOOSE THE RIGHT!