student success statement

Student success statement

“choosing the right is always the right thing to do.”

-Alex Linares

Reflection: its saying that if you always choose the right, you will always be doing the right thing. for example helping a homeless child is choosing the right and doing the right.

10 Time Management Tips for Students

10 Time Management Tips for Students

Tips 5-10

Tip 5. Review Your Notes Every Day.

Reviewing helps you reinforce what you've learned, so you need less time to study before a test. You’ll also be ready if you get called on in class or have to take a pop quiz.

Tip 6. Get a Good Night’s Sleep.

Your brain needs rest to perform at its peak. Lack of sleep makes the day seem longer and your tasks seem more difficult.

Tip 7. Communicate Your Schedule to Others.

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

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 that importance of each item. Then set realistic goals that are attainable.

Choose the Right!!

student success satement

Student success statement

“its better to be alone than to be in bad company”

ANON

Reflection: this post is saying that if your alone you’re always going to be choosing the right, and if you’re always choosing the right people will want to be near you. If you’re with bad company, you’re going to eventually start to choose the wrong, and if you choose the wrong no one will want to be around you.

10 time management skills for students

10 time management tips for students

Tips 1-4

Organize your life                                                                                                                                                                            manage your time well is an important element of success --- especially if you’re a student. If you set priorities that fit your needs and lifestyle, you have a better chance of achieving your goals. Here are some tips for taking control of your time and organizing your life.

Tip 1. Make a to-do list every day.                                                                                                                                            Put things that are the most important at the top and do them first. And don’t forget to reward yourself for your accomplishments.

Tip 2. Use spare minutes wisely.                                                                                                                                                               When you’re commuting on a train or bus, use the time to get some reading done.

Tip 3. It’s ok to say no.                                                                                                                                                                   if your friend asks you to the movies on Thursday night, and you have an exam the next morning, realize that its ok to say no. keep your- and long-term priorities in mind

Tip 4. Find the right time.

You’ll work more efficiently if you figure out when you do your best work. For example, if your brain handles math better in the afternoon, don’t wait to do it until late night.

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tips from college students

Tips from college students

Tips for high school students 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 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 the community living contributes to the cold/flu season.

6.)    Learn to read- summarize and outline read

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 as you can

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

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

13.) That about what characteristics in a university sure of the most importance to you (climate, environment, degrees offered, size, location, etc.) before making a final decision about attending college

Advice from university of Portland students

1.)    “I think of 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 I didn’t think that it was permanent, I wouldn’t bother to study it. But in college all those unneeded tool come together in real life (e.g.: finding an intersection of those two lines in algebra is later important in cost 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 (the testable facts). Volunteering and join clubs of important to get into the college of your choice.”

student success statement

Student success statement

“improvement begins with i”

Reflection: this post saying that if you want to improve something first you must improve yourself. For example, a person that wants world peace has to be kind and peaceful in order to inflict that peace, a corrupted person can’t inflict peace because of their corrupted ways.

7 habits of highly successful teens

7 habits of highly successful teens

Habit 7: sharpen the saw                                                                                                                                                                      3.) heart: always do what is right so your heart and conscience, will feel peaceful. When you do wrong, your conscience will prick you and create a regretful sensation within your heart. When you do what you honestly feel, you wont have any regrets. Your heart is an internal compass---it gives you direction and discernment. Just like a magnetic compass gives you direction,  even tyue north, your personal compass, your heart, will point you in the true north, the exact path you need to go on.

4.) soul: study scriptures 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 great soul-sharpening activities. Try writing your thoughts, feelings, aspirations, concerns, and decisions in a diary or journal. Writing helps you focus and make good decisions.

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

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7 habits of highly successful teens

7 habits of highly successful teens

Habit 7: sharpen the saw

Teens should never get to busy living to take time to renew themselves. When teens “sharpen the saw” they are keeping themselves sharp so that they can deal with life in a better way. It means constantly renewing and strengthening the fourth key deminsions of life – mind, heart, and soul

1.) Body. Eat wholesome foods, fruits, vegitables, and legumes. Avoid illegal drugs, alcohol, tobacco products, tattooing. Exercise regularly and effectively. Ge5t plenty of sleep at night. Get to bed early at night and get up early in the morning. “early to bed, early to rise. Helps make a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”

2.) Mind. Think positively. Read, study, think, analyze, and seek a good book to read each month. Then each week. Ask intelligent questions. Observe. Develop your mind through positive “self-talk”.

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student success stament

Student success statement

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much more.”

Helen Keller

Reelection: this post is saying that people can achieve more if there is teamwork involved, for example if you have one person pushing a car that’s in neutral, it will only move a little. But if you have two people pushing a car, it will move a lot faster and a greater distance.

7 habits of highly successful teens

7 habits of highly successful teens

Habit 6: synergize

Synergy is achieved when two or more people work together to create something better that they could have created alone.  Through this habit, teens learn it doesn’t have to be “your way” or “my way” but rather a better way, a higher 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 do the v formations with others instead of flying through life solo. You’ll be amazed at how faster and much farther you’ll go. Synergy doesn’t just happen. It’s a process. You have to get there. And the foundation of getting there is: learning to celebrate differences.

 A good band is a great example of synergy. It’s not just the drums, or the guitar, or the vocalists, It’s all of them together that make up the music. Each band member brings

his or her strengths to the table to create something better than each could have done alone. No instrument is more important than the other. Just different

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student success statement

Student success statement

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

Sean covey

Reflections: this post is saying that people who want to be popular are doing whatever their peers are telling them to, they do this because they want to have many friends and they want every one to like them. When teens want everyone to like the, they do anything that others want them to which is hardly every good.

7 habits of highly successful students

7 habits of highly successful teens

Habit 5

5. Seek the first to understand, and then to be understood

 Because most people don’t listen very well, one of the greatest frustrations in life is that we feel that we aren’t understood. This habit will insure that your teens learn the most important communication skill there is: active listening.                                                                                                                        Why is this habit the key to communication? Its because the deepest need in 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 may tell you more than what you want to hear. People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care. Listen with your heart, eyes, and ears. 7 percent of communication is contained in the words we use. The other 53% comes from body language and how we say words, or the tone or feeling reflected off our voice (40%). Most people like to talk, and rather talk than to listen. We have one mouth and two ears. This means we should listen twice as much as we talk. We actually learn more when we are listening rather when we talk. Learn to listen and learn to learn. Listen, really listen, for understanding. Seek first to understand than to be understood ---- LISTEN

CHOOSE THE RIGHT

7 habits of highly successful students

7 habits of highly successful teens

Habit 3

Habit 3: put things first

Habit three is about will and will not power. This habit helps teens prioritize and manage  their time so that they focus on and complete the most important things in their lives. Putting first things first also means to learn how to overcome fears and being strong during difficult times. Its not living life according to what matters most. Putting things first  that deals with things that are:                                                     important or not important , urgent or not urgent. Lets look at the four quadrants of time management

1)      Things that are important and urgent

2)      Things that are important but not urgent

3)      Things that are not important but urgent

4)      Things that are not important and not urgent

1. important and urgent	2. important but not urgent
3. not important but urgent	4. not important but urgent

Quadrant 2is the ideal place to spend our time, doing things that is important but not urgent. Heres where priorities come to 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 switch the most important things first, things that matter most. Keep your eyes on the prize and reach for it.

Choose the right

student success statement

Student success statement

“The only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits. Good habits are the key to success. Bad habits are the unlocked doors to failure. Thus, the first law I will obey, which precede all others is ---‘I will form good habits and become their slave.’”

Og Mandino

Reflection: this post is saying the people who fail and succeed have the same learning tool. But some people don’t know or don’t bother to use them. Is you want to succeed all you need to do is pay attention, your going to be in school either way so might as well learn something.

student success statement

Student success statement

“whether I fail or succeed shall be no man’s doing but my own. I am the force.”

Elaine Maxwell

reflection: i think that this post is saying we are in charge of our own future. nobody can make us do something we dont want to. if we succeed its because we wanted to, not because someone made us.
if we fail its because we wanted to, not because someone made us fail

7 habits of highly successful students

7 habits of highly successful teens

habit one

Habit 1: be proactive.

Being proactive is the key to unlocking the other habits. Help your teen to take control and responsibility for their own happiness or unhappiness. They don’t blame others for their own actions or feelings. Proactive people realize that the ball is in their court that they are the captains of their own ships; that they are in control of their decisions, thoughts, choices, goals, actions, and priority. Proactive people are self-starters; they don’t wait to be told what to do, they press forward with enthusiasm toward the achievement of their assignment, their duties, there responsibilities, their obligations. Choosing to do what is right is a proactive decision. Obey the rule. Obey the laws. Obey the coach. Obey the school. Obey your parents. Obey with exactness, and then great things will come to you. Be proactive and take initiative.

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Student success statement

“its not where you live but how you live that counts. Its not where you play the game but how you play the game.”

Mr. Haymore

Reflection: this reflection is saying that it doesn’t matter if you life I a nice place if you your living a bad life, because you going to be miserable and you not going to be able to enjoy your home and the area. 

And it doesn’t matter where you play the game because you could be playing in a nice big stadium, but it’s not going to do you any good if you don’t know how to play.

Profile of a Successful Students Part 1

Profile of a Successful Students Part 1

http://www.plymouth.edu/office/online-education/online-learning/profile-of-a-successful-student/

A successful student…

…takes responsibility for his/her own learning

Online learning can be powerful, stimulating, engaging experience for the student who can work and think independently. 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 this form of communication. While some courses contain modules that include videos or other activities, all of them require significant amounts of reading. And nearly all of your communication with your classmates and your instructor will be in writing. If these are weak areas for you, you will want to address those issues prior to enrolling or while enrolled in an online course. The PSU Writing Center is available to assist you.

…is willing to be a member of an online community.

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