Student Success

"Success is Dependent on effort." 
-Sophocles, Greek dramatist
- We should choose the right 

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 and enough 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 fellow students are available for discussion.

·       When you are reading book chapters or working on a research paper, you are probably better on 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 your most productive time of day.

·       Take breaks if you need them so you don’t waste time looking 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.

Choose the Right 

Kids Health

Perseverance

• Homework

I do my homeowork when I come home from school.

• Team you might play on

I used to be on a team called Thunders at some neighborhood park.

• Insturment you might play

I play my guitar.

•  Tasks at Home

At home i clean the house, I clean the yard.

The Time I Persevered
Is when I was playing basketball in a game, and we were tied, I was up at the free throw, I had two shots, first shirt all the pressure on me , I shot. In Second shot oppenents team screaming, slowly breath out, shoot And it went in we wobn the game.

Jenna Huff & Deb

I think Jenna Huff showed some great sportsmanship. But i also think the Olympic Committee should have not disqualified Jenna for choosing the Right.

How to Take on College Studying

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 are essential. Learn more about time management, and use 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.

Choose the Right 

Student Success Statement

"Its better to be alone than to be in bad company." 
                                    ANON 
Reflection: If we are in bad company we will be choosing the wrong. But if we are alone we will choose the right. 

10 Time Management Tips for Students

Tips 1-4

Organizing 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’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 I mind.

Tip 5. 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.

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 take 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 sciences, math, English, and foreign language courses as you can: they build a foundation for college.

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

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

13.                  Think about what characteristics is a university is of most importance to you 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 tool come together in the real life. In the way of classes learning to read and write well is very important. The focus should be on the format and clarifying ideas I writing, and being able to pick out the important parts of writing.

Courage

Courage is:

1. Being Brave
2. Daring
3. Risk Taking
4. Steadfastness
5. Being Immovable in doing what is right
6. Standing firm for goodness

Courage to say "Yes" to:

• being kind
• sticking to what is right
• being honest
• being friendly
• working hard in school
• living by the rules
• being a good sport
• helping other people

Courage to say "No" to:

• illegal drugs
• smoking
• any tobacco products
• alcohol
• cussing
• telling inappropriate jokes
• visiting inappropiate websites
• cheating
• being dishonest

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 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 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, mediating, and reflecting are excellent 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, your mind, your heart, and your soul.

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 them. 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.”   

Sportsmanship/Fair/Just

1)What are some examples of Good Sportsmanship?

• Picking up a player, when she/he falls.
• Giving props to teamate or oppenent.

2)What are the benefits of showing Good Sportsmanship?

• The benefits of showing sportsmanship are people will say good job.

3)Why do people demostrate unsportsmanlike conduct?
Some people demostrate unsportsmanlike conduct because they are either mad or afraid their coach or teamates will be mad.
4)What does it mean to play fair, to be fair and just?

•  To play fair it means play by the rules dont cheat.

5)Why is it important to be fair and just?

• It is important to be fair because its showing good sportsmanship.

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: If you choose the right you will go far. But if you choose the wrong you will pay the consequence. Ex: In high school all kids think about are being popular & cool. Some forget about their grades and start getting a bad grade, some even drop out. 

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 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 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 who 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 they know you until they know how much you care. Listen with your eyes, heart, and ears. 7 percent of communications 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 your voice (40 percent). Most people are eager to talk and had rather talk then listen. We have one mouth and two ears. This means we should listen twice as much as we talk. We actually learn more while listening rather than when we talk. Learn to listen and listen to learn. Listen, really listen, for understanding. Seek first to understand then to be understood—Listen.   

 

Kindness

This is what everyone should have. Our parents should make us practice kindness when we are young. One example of kindness is pay attention to the speaker. Another example is to help old lady cross the street.

 

What I will do to be more kind is practice obedience.

7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens Habit 4

Win-win is a belief that everyone can win. It’s both nice and tough all at once. I won’t step on you, either. 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. 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.

Choose the Right!

Respect

Respect is the one thing we should all have, practice, and use. If we dont respect someones things, property, then we will not have good habits. We should repsect our elders, you know what im saying.

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 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 is important and urgent. Quadrant 2: Things that are Important but not urgent. Quadrant 3: Things that are not important but are 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 in 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 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 that matter most. Keep your eyes on the prize and reach for it.

Choose the Right

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

-Og Mandino

Reflection: choose your own pass. Don’t let people choose it for you. You can choose the right & have the key to success. People who choose the unlock door to failure. People who steal get caught & locked up. People who catch the robber get a reward. 

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens Habit 2

Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind

If teens 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 opinions of others. Help your teen create a personal mission statement which will act as a road map and direct and guide his decision making process.

“Keep your eyes on the prize.” Determine your desired prize and don’t quit until you have realized the achievement of your prize. 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 and then realize. Start by having a target in mind; know where you are going.

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

Choose the Right!!

Student Success Statement

"Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force." 

Elaine Maxwell 

this means We choose what we want to do. We could choose the bad way or the good way. No one is responsible for our own actions. 

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens Habit 1 (By Sean Covey but modified)

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, control of their decisions, thoughts, choices, decisions, 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 responsibilities, and their obligations. Choosing 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 initiative.  Choose the right.

Student Success Statement

"Keep your eye on the prize."
                                       --Anon

This means to keep my goal to be successful. Keep my eye means Have my goal, prize is success.

10 Tips for Student Success

1.  Attend your classes. Remember in the words of Woody Allen ‘Seventy percent 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. Mange 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 academics 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 unformed and mature decisions about alcohol, sex and drugs. Visit the Health Office as needed.

8.  Work only as necessary. Try not to exceed 20 hours during school week. If possible, work on campus. Apply for financial aid and loans if you need them. Mange 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.     

Self-Discipline

Is when you have self control. When you have self-mastery. When you have determinaion. Willpower. Strength of mind. When you have Obidence with exactness. When you tell yourself to choose the right. My self discipline is Spinach.

Profile of a Successful Student Part 2

Work together. There are a number of ways that you can ensure you get the most out of your educational experience. First, participate fully. Engage regularly in the discussions and we be willing to share your personal, professional and educational experiences, you can get to know your classmates through the dialogue that is created in a course environment—sometimes even better than in a face-to-face class. And the same goes for your instructor. Be sure to contact your professor—especially if you are having problems. He/she is still your instructor and will be there to guide and assist you as needed. 

Profile of a Successful Student Part 1

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 all of them require significant amount 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.    

Choose the Right