Student Success Statement

“Success is dependent on effort.”

-Sophocles, Greek dramatist

Well this statement just meant that how much work you put into something that’s what you’ll get back. It depends how much hard work you’re putting into it and require it to not fail.

 

 

How to take on College Studying Part 2

Choose where to Study

Where you should study depends on two factors: the environment in which you are best able to concentrate and the type of work you are planning to do.

·           The best places to study have good light a comfortable temperature desk space – usually your dorm room, your apartment or the library.

·           For completing problem sets or brainstorming possible test questions, you may want to study with a group or at least in a setting where follow students are available for discussion.

·           When you are reading you are reading a book chapter or working on a research paper, you are probably better off in a less social environment.

Improve your study Habits

Here are simple steps you can take to help you get a handle on studying:

·           Have a routine for where and when you study.

·           Choose reasonable and specific goals that you can accomplish for each study session.

·           Do things that are harder or require more intense thought at most productive time of the day.

·           Take breaks if you need them so you don’t waste time looking at material but not at material but not absorbing it.

·           Get to know students whom you respect and can study with or contact to ask questions

·           Keep up with the workload and seek help when you need it.

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Jenna Huff

High school Student wins the

Extreme “Sportsmanship” award from U.S Olympic Committees

What did she do?

 

What Jenna huff do is helped Deb in a race she encouraged her to finish it cause they were there already and made her go first to finish it. Deb had ran 3 miles and had her bone pop out and she was half way done and Jenna came and didn’t want to pass her cause it wouldn’t have been fare but helped Deb out instead.

How to take on College Studying

http;//www.collegeboard.com/student/plan/college-success/961.html

Part 1

Develop Good Study Habits

In college you’ll need to build on the study skills that you learned in high school. The demands of a college class are probably more rigorous than those you are used to.

You can succeed by knowing what to expect and how to handle it. Think of college as a full-time job, in which you spend 40 hours a week on class, labs, study groups and doing homework.

Being organized and using your time well essential. Learn more about time management, and se the guidelines below to develop your study skills.

Decide When to Study

Work out about how many hours you need to study every day. Then make a schedule.

·          Figure out what blocks of time you have available throughout the day, in the evenings and on weekends.

·          Consider what time of day you are most alert – there are morning people and night owls – and try to schedule your studying accordingly.

·          Think about whether you do better studying for a few hours at a time or sitting down for marathon sessions.

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Student Success Statement

“It’s better to be alone than to be in bad company.”

ANON

It is better to be alone in a way if you rather like it that way, away from uncalled for stuff but I mean people choose the people they want to hang out with and what they do I mean some people do not do anything wrong in life and there doing just fine .

10 Time Management Tips for Students

http://www.collegeboard.com/student/plan/college-success/116.html

Tips 1-4

Organizing Your Life

Managing 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’ll 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 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 the bus or train use the time to get some reading done.

Tip 3. It’s Okay to Say No.

If your friend asks you to go to a movie on Thursday night and you have an exam the next morning, realize that it’s okay to say no. Keep your short- 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 at night.

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Student Success Statement

“Improvement begins with I”

ANON

 What this quote is saying is that you can make a difference no matter what you do. Whether it is good or bad it is an improvement. And in other words it’s hard to say what you do is highly okay as long as it’s something worth improvement like your life but you can always change it with hard work and not making the wrong mistakes.

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 gives heart, will point you in the true north, the exact directions and paths you need to trod.

4) Soul: Study scriptures and other sacred literature daily. In other words, feed your sprit because your spirit needs temporal food to survive. Pondering meditating and reflecting are excellent soul-sharping 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 mind, your heart, and your soul.

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Student Success Statement

“If you do what’s right, you have no need to fear.”

ANON

When you’re doing something highly right you know you won’t have any regrets into what you have done. In other words if you’re doing something worth regretting and not letting anybody find out yes there is fear .

7 habits of highly Successful Teens

Habit 7 Part 1

Habit: 7 Sharpens the Saw

Teens should never get too get 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, 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 to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”

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

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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 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 form V formations with others instead of trying to fly through life solo. You’ll be amazed at how much faster and farther you’ll go. Synergy doesn’t just happen it’s a progress. You have to get there. And the foundation of getting there is this: Learning to celebrate differences.

A good bad is a great example of synergy. It’s not just not the drums, or 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

“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

What the statement is talking about that you aren’t aware of what you’re doing thinking what you should do to stay “popular” and forget the most important things like “School” or anything else.

7 habits of 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 great frustrations in life is that many don’t feel understood .This habit will ensure your teen learns the most important communication skill there is active listening. Why is this habit key to communication? Its 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 wont 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. 7 percent 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 and feeling reflected in our voice (40 percent). Most people are eager to talk and had rather talk than listen twice as much talk. We actually learn more while listening rather than when we talk. Learn to listen and listen to learn. Listen, really listen for understanding. Seeking first to understand then to be understood—listen.

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7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

Habit 4: Think Win—Win

Teens can learn to foster the belief that it 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. It’s both nice and tough all at once. I won’t step on you, but I won’t be your doormat either. You care about other people and you want them to succeed. But you also care about yourself, and you want to succeed as well. Win-Win is abundant. It’s not either you or me. It’s both of us. It’s not the matter of who gets the biggest piece of the pie. There’s more than enough food for everyone. It’s an all-you-can-eat buffet.

Win—win always creates more. Perhaps the most surprising benefit of thinking Win-win is the good feeling it brings on. The true test of whether or not you are thinking Win-Win or one of the alternatives is how you feel. Win-lose and Lose-Win thinking will cloud your judgment and fill you with negative feelings.

Win-win will fill your heart with happy and serene thoughts. It will give you confidence. Even fill you with light. Think Win –Win or no deal.

 

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Student success statement

“You cannot do wrong, and feel right. It is impossible.”

Ezra t. Benson

What this statement is talking about is you can’t do something extremely horrible in life and not feel guilty is not because some way inside of you, you feel guilt about what you did and want to take it back but it’s so hard to realize it because you’re being caught up thinking what you did was positive that you shouldn’t ending up doing nothing about it.

7 habits of highly successful learning teens part 3

Habit 3 : put first things first

Habit three is about will and will not power. This habit helps teen prioritize and manage their time so they focus on 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. Its 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 time management.

Quadrant 1: things that are important and urgent

Quadrant 2: things that are important but 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 not important but not urgent. Here’s where properties come to play.  The results for living quadrants 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 time as possible into Quadrant 2 and this is accomplished by planning. Spend more time planning and incorporating the most important things first, things that matters most. Keep your eyes on the prize and reach for it.

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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 door to failure. Thus, the first law I will obey, which precedeth all others is-‘form good habits and become their slaves.’ ”

Og Mandino

Reflection: I think this quote means that you should only follow the path that will lead you to what you want not the path that will lead you to the other direction. I think this quote is trying to teach us to go in the right direction to life not the wrong

7 habits of highly successful teens habits 2

Habits 2: being with the end in mind

If teen aren’t clear about where they want to end up in life, about their values goals and what they stand for, they will wander waste time and be tossed to and fro by the opinions of others. Help your teen create a personal mission statement which will act as a road map and direct and guide his decisions-making process.

“Keep your eyes on the prize”. Determine your desired prize and don’t quit until you have realized the achievement of your life. Then set another prize, another goal or desire that you would really like to achieve. Begin with the achievement of your prize in mind. Visualize. Start by having a target in mind; know where you are going.

One prize goal you definitely need to establish for yourself is the prize of an honorable graduation from high school that you will receive your diploma honesty and with integrity that you earned it with perfect honesty.

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Student success statement

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

Elaine Maxwell

What this statement is talking about is that you have your own responsibilities and that nobody is responsible for it except you .  

7 habits of highly successful teens habit 1

(By Sean Covey)

Habit 1: Be proactive.

Being proactive is the key to unlocking the other habits. Help your teen take control and responsibility for her life. Proactive people understand that they are responsible 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 captain of their own ship; that they are in control of their decisions, thoughts, choices, goals, actions, and priorities. 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, their responsibility their obligations. Choosing to do what is right is a proactive decision. Obey the rules. Obey the law. Obey the coach. Obey the school policies. Obey your parents. Obey with exactness, and great things will come to you. Be proactive and take the initiative.

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Student success statement

“Keep your eyes on the prize”

Anon

What this statement is talking about is to not get distracted into what is really important otherwise you won’t achieve it in life. And if you do keep it on the prize then you have reached some standards and reached your priorities.

10 Tips for Student Success

1. Attend your classes. Remember in the words of Woody Allen Seventy of success in life is showing up.

2. Know your faculty. Make sure you know who your teachers are, when their office hours are and how to contact them.

3. Make sure the faculty 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 services and programs offered by the counseling center, The Freshmen 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 if 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. 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.

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Student Success Statement

“You make your habits and habits make you.”

Anon

Its daily what you naturally do but sometimes they can be bad habits or sometimes good habits.

7 Habits of highly Successful Teens

By Sean Covey

For teens is not a playground, it’s a jungle. And being the parent of a teenager isn’t any walk in the park, either. In this book, the 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, author Sean Covey attempts to provide “a compass to help teens and their parents navigate the problems they encounter daily.”

How will they deal with peer pressure? Motivation? Success or lack thereof? The life of a teenager is full of tough issues and life changing decisions. As a parent, you are responsible to help them learn the principles and ethics that will help them to reach their goals and live a successful life.

While it’s all well and good to tell kids how to live their lives, “teens watch what you do more than they listen to what you say,” Covey says. So practice what you preach. Your example can be very influential.

Covey himself has done well by following a parent’s example. His dad, Stephen Covey, Wrote the book The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People, which sold over 15 million copies. Sean’s a chip off the block, and no slacker. His own book has rung in more than respectable 2 million copies sold. Here are his seven habits, and some ideas for helping your teen understand and apply them;

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Student success statent

"nothing is never gained in doing whats wrong."

wilford woodruff

when your doing something bad you dont deserve something good in the end rather than nothing. Otherwise if you do something right you will be rewarded into how much good have you done in life and get something than nothing at all.

Profile of a successful Student part 3

…owns or has easy access to be a computer with internet access and e-mail.

You don’t have to be a computer expert to be successful in online learning—but you must have access to a personal computer with reliable internet access, as well a basic level of competency in using them. Owning a computer with internet access from home is ideal but many students use the computer labs on campus or at their office to complete their work.

…has basic computer skills and is willing and open to learning new ones.

We said you don’t have to be a computer expert to be successful in online learning. However, there are some basic technical skills you should of have master prior to enrolling in an online course.

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 Student Success Statement

“It’s no WHERE you live but HOW you live that counts. It’s not where you play the game but HOW you play that counts”

--Mr. Haymore

This statement says that it doesn't matter when or where but HOW you live life and it’s obstacles.

Profile of a Successful Student Part 1

http://www.plymouth.edu/online-learning/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 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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Student Success Statement

“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”

-Henry David Thoreau

Reflection: This statement means doing good is never wrong to do. If you do good things and choose the right is one of the greatest investments. By doing so it will make you a good person and have a better life.

Successful Students 10

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 led, 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 skill problem for college students. It ultimately causes many students to become non-students! Procrastinators are good excuse-makers. Don’t make academics harder on yourself than it has to be. Stop procrastinating. And don’t wait until tomorrow to do it!

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

“Learning Technologies and Online Education”

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