Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“What’s right isn’t always popular. What’s popular isn’t always right.”

Howard Cosell

I agree with this statement because what we do isn’t always right. For example, many people smoke because of popularity and think its right, although it’s a bad habit. Also many people liter on the streets thinking its right because other people do it, when its harming the planet, While others get a broom and start sweeping the streets so it would be a cleaner and better environment..

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Successful Students

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7.  … Understand that actions affect learning. Successful students know their personal behavior affect their feelings and emotions which turn can affect learning.

If you act in a certain way that normally produces particular feelings, you will begin to experience those feelings. Act like you’re bored and you’ll become bored. Act like you’re disinterested and you’ll become disinterested. So the next time you have trouble concentrating in the classroom, “act” like an interested person “lean forward, place your feet flat on the floor, maintain eye contact with the professor, nod occasionally, take notes, and ask questions. Not only will you benefit directly from your actions, your classmates and professor may also get more excited and enthusiastic.

8.  …Talk about what they’re learning. Successful students get to know something well enough that they can put it into words.

Talking about something, with friends or classmates, is not only good for checking whether or not you know something, it’s a proven learning tool. Transferring ideas into words provides the most direct path for moving knowledge from short-term to long term memory. You really don’t “know” material until you can put it out into words. So, next time you study, don’t do it silently. Talk about notes, problems, Reading, etc. With friends, recite to a chair, organize an oral study group, Pretend you’re teaching your peers. “Talk-learning” Produces a whole host of memory traces that results in more learning.

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How high school graduation could be a pleasure or pain

How high school graduation could be a pleasure or pain

High school could be a pleasure because when you succeed it, and graduate then you will feel great for your accomplishments. It could also be a pain because if you fail too many classes and you don’t have enough credits then you won’t graduate. Although, if you are a good student then you will culminate for sure and you would have a great time while you go on the stage, and see your peers do so as well.

Successful students

Successful students

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5. Don’t sit in the back of the room. Successful students minimize classroom distractions that interfere with learning.

Students want the best seat available for their entertainment dollars, but willingly seek the worst seat for their educational dollars. Students who sit in the back cannot possibly be their professor’s teammate (see no.4). why do they expose themselves to the temptations of inactive classrooms experiences and distractions of all the people between them and their instructor? Of course, we know they close the back of the classroom because they seek invisibility or anonymity, both of which are antithetical of efficient and effective learning. If you are trying not to be part of the class, why, then, are you wasting your time? Push your hot buttons, is there something else you should be doing with your time?

6…… take good notes. Successful students take notes that are understandable and organized, ad review them often.

Why put something into your notes you don’t understand? Ask the questions now that are necessary to make your notes meaningful at some later time. A short review of your notes while the materials is still fresh on your mind helps your lean more. The more you lean the less you’ll have to learn later and the less time it will take because you won’t have to include some deciphering time also. The whole purpose of taking notes is to use them often. The more you use them, the more they improve.

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Student Success Statement

Student Success statement

“The time is always right to do what’s right.”

-Martin Luther King-

I agree with this statement because it’s never too late to do what’s right and do what’s right to help others. Whenever you think of something good to do, never think it’s too late to make that thought true.

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Successful Students

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3.  … ask questions. Successful students ask questions to provide the quickest route between ignorance and knowledge. In addition, to securing knowledge you seek, asking questions has at least two other extremely important benefits. The process helps you pay attention to your professor and helps your professor pay attention to you! Think about it. If you want something, go after it. Get the answer now, or fail a question later. There are no foolish questions, only questions, only silence. It’s your choice.

            

4.  … learn that a student and a professor make a team. Most instructors want exactly what you want: they would like for you to learn the material in their respective classes and earn a good grade.

Successful students reflect well on efforts of any teacher: if you have learned your material, the instructor takes some justifiable pride in teaching. Join forces with your instructor, they are not the enemy, and you share the same interests, with the same goals— in short, your teammates. Get to know your professor. You’re the most valuable players on the same team. Your jobs are to work together for mutual success. Neither wishes to chalk up a losing season. Be a team player!

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Successful students 1-2

Successful students

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Successful students exhibit a combination of successful attitudes and behaviors as well as intellectual capacity. Successful Students ….

1.                   … are  responsible and active. Successful students get involved in their studies, accept responsibility for their own education, and are active participants in it! Responsibility means control. It’s the difference between leading  and being lead. Your own efforts control your grade, you earn the glory and deserve to blame, and you make the choice. Active classroom participation improves grades without increasing study time. You can be sitting there, act bored, daydream, or sleep. Or, you can actively listen, think, question, and take notes like someone in charge of their learning experiences. Either option costs one class period. However, the former method will required a large degree of additional work outside of class to achieve the same degree of learning the latter provides at one sitting. The choice is yours.

2.   . . . have educational goals. Successful students have legitimate goals and are motivated by what they represent in terms of career aspirations and life’s desires.

Ask yourself these questions: What am I doing here? Why have I chosen to be sitting here now? Is there some better place I could be? What does my presence here mean to me? Answers to these questions represent your “Hot Buttons” and are, without a doubt, the most important factors in your success as a college student. If your educational goals are truly yours, not someone else’s, they will motivate a vital and positive academic attitude. If you are familiar with what these hot buttons represent and refer to them often, especially when you tire of being a student, nothing can stop you; if you aren’t and don’t, everything can, and will!

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