Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“Take care of yourself and everything else will fall into place.”

-         Coach David Diamont

Reflection

This statement is so true. You have to take care of yourself first and everything else will fall into place. For example if you take care of your health then you wouldn’t have to worry about sicknesses or diseases. You have to worry about yourself not about other people. Choosing the right will lead you to take care of yourself and will give you no worries.

Ten Tips for Being More Truthful

Ten Tips for Being

More Truthful

By: Barbara A. Lewis

1.    Make a commitment to tell the truth

2.    Tell someone about your commitment

3.    Think before you give a dishonest answer, explanation or reason.

4.    Be careful of when and how you use exaggeration, sarcasm, or irony.

5.    Be careful not to twist the truth or leave out part of it.

6.    Don’t indulge in little white lies or cover-ups.

7.    Watch out for silent lies.

8.    When you catch yourself lying, throw your mouth into reverse.

9.    Talk to yourself. Ask yourself, ‘How do I really feel about this?” What’s the best thing to do? How can I keep my commitment to myself?”

10. Treat yourself when you tell the truth even when it’s hard to do.

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Acquiring the Habits of Highly Successful Students Part 13

Acquiring the Habits of

Highly Successful Students

Part 13

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If you feel you do not naturally have all those characteristics, then do not despair. Each of them can be accomplished by your own application. You can use meditation and visualization techniques to initiate your vision, and they can certainly be learned both for that purpose and for each step you take to reach your goals. Simply visualize your desired goals, that of being a star student, a champion of doing what is right, and see yourself working hard to become outstanding and you’re your dreams and vision will materialize as you pursue these objectives. Setting goals and objectives can be a personal or business technique that can be learnt. You can develop inner strength to succeed if you supply yourself to doing just that; that will enable you to recover from setbacks more easily.

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Acquiring the Habits of Highly Successful Students Part 12

Acquiring the Habits of

Highly Successful Students

Part 12

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What is important to you is that you, as you start to reach milestone in your ambitious, you appreciate your own achievements. It is a boost, of course, if others appreciate what you have done too, but appreciating yourself will strengthen your self-belief, and reinforce your determination to succeed. Some of the key characteristics you will in those who are successful are perseverance, prepared to research, plan and work hard, practice a lot even when things do not seem to be going well, and an ability to recover and learn from setbacks. At the outset of whatever it is you are trying to succeed in, a strong vision of your future, planning, and setting yourself achievable targets can all play an important role. Habits of Successful Students

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Acquiring the Habits of Highly Successful Students Part 11

Acquiring the Habits of

Highly Successful Students

Part 11

Whether studying or in general life, planning is an imperative skill. Here, we must strictly set the hours for studying, and should promote regularity in doing so. Don’t put off your studies to the last moment (just before the test), because in that moment you will be feeling stress and pressure, and both factors will prove disturbing for your learning; that’s the high price of procrastination. During the exam, it’s important to forget about panic and stress. And if you are planning for your thesis, you may find this post useful. Other planning tip I frequently give is that, when you are assigned a homework, try to solve it as quickly as possible, several days before the required date, but don’t try to complete it perfectly and don’t submit it immediately. I always recommend doing homework early, but deliver it at the last possible day.

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"Be Wise—Never Use Drugs or Alcohol"

"Be Wise—Never Use Drugs or Alcohol"

Drugs and alcohol not only affects you but also affects the people that care for you. If something happens to you the people that care for you will get depressed, worried, and will pray for you so you can get okay. Dugs affect you in a very dramatic way. They mess up your brain causing you to do unpleasant things. People who are addicted to drugs can overdose and die. They will hurt their family as well because they will have to face the fact that they lost someone in the family. Drugs can’t sometimes kill someone immediately. It depends what kind of drugs you take. Some drugs are more severe than others. Drugs are completely bad for people. I don’t understand why people take them. They are just risking their lives. Alcohol is another thing you should prevent. Alcohol can kill you. There has been a lot of deaths here in the U.S because of driving drunk. Not only do they kill their selves but also kill other innocent people. People who drive drunk are also risking their lives. They also risk the lives of the people who are in the car. If the driver dies then it is most likely that the rest of the passengers will die. Don’t ever get in a car where there is a drunk driver driving. Alcohol makes people act differently. Women who are pregnant should never touch an alcohol bottle and drink from it. They are risking the lives of their baby’s because they might come out with fetal alcohol disorder. An innocent new born baby shouldn’t pay the consequences for their parent’s actions of drinking.  Adults who use drugs or alcohol set an example to their kids or younger siblings that it is okay to use them. Adults are role models; they should be wise and never use drugs or alcohol.

Highly Successful Students Part 10

Highly Successful Students

Part 10

·       They prefer tasks with some degree of difficulty and novelty, which stimulate their learning skills.

·       They don’t apply the simple criteria of success fail to their learning. Remember, they are focused into the learning process.

·       They know how to handle groups.

·       Finally, they work with passion.

Other chief habit is that of asking questions. We have to establish hypothesis and set concrete, realistic goals. After reading any text we have to ask several different questions related to its content, in order to verify if we have completely understood the text. It’s also important to try to relate such text and other areas of our knowledge. Again, linking ideas and concepts is a habit of highly successful students. So, link.

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Acquiring the Habits of Highly Successful Students Part 9

Acquiring the Habits of

Highly Successful Students

Part 9

·       They concentrate on the process of solving the task and understanding the involved ideas. Of course we are interested in getting good results, but the process is more important. A result is a very brief moment of life, while learning to develop processes is a skill that will last for the whole life.

·       They interpret and analyze errors as a way of increasing their learning, i.e., they try to learn from their mistakes. This way, they see errors and failures as opportunities.

·       They look for the required information in several channels (books, journals, newspapers, experts, Internet, and so on).

·       They action provides a new perspective about the studied topics.

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Acquiring the Habits of Highly Successful Students Part 7

Acquiring the Habits of

Highly Successful Students

Part 7

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·       Everyone wants to be successful in life, but where are the keys to success? Do we have to go out and search for those keys, or do we have those potentials already within ourselves? When we begin to examine life, we can see that it is divided into two aspects – life within and life without; internal life and external life – and we can see that these aspects are of equal importance. Even if we have renounced the world, gone far away from civilization, and live in the wilderness doing nothing but medication, we cannot ignore external life. We still have to see that we eat, do our ablutions, and perform our practices on time. So life in the external world is as important as life in the internal world.

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Acquiring the Habits of Highly Successful Students Part 6

Acquiring the Habits of

Highly Successful Students

Part 6

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If you prefer to play videogames, then remember that making any game requires to prepare a detailed script including history, characters, goals and relations. Therefore, you could start writing down the script for your “dream” game. On the other side, you could imagine how the novel you are reading could be transformed into a videogame (start out by thinking which gaming genre fits the novel better: role-playing, adventure, action, and so on). The basic idea to find match points and links between our affections and our chores. And such links there always exist. Remember, to link ideas and concepts is the most important habit for successful students.

Successful students also exhibit other particular traits we should internalize:

·        They are always trying to discover better approaches in order to accomplish their tasks (adequate studying place, availability of resources,etc.) You may find my post on Pristine Home with Feng Shui useful for improving your studying environment.

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Acquiring the Habits of Highly Successful Students

Acquiring the Habits of

Highly Successful Students

Part 5

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2- Success is about achieving goals, and therefore is a relative notion. Highly successful students are those which set realistic goals, and attain them with the proper investment of resources. Thus, not necessarily the student with the best grades is the most successful learner. Now, we have stated what the successful student is like. Good.

2-      If you have negative entries in your list of driving forces, it’s time to improve things quite a bit. First, identify other topics that you indeed like a lot, not necessarily related to studying. Perhaps you like pets, to cook or to play videogames. Now, try to establish associations or links between these favorite activities of yours and the subject of study that you dislike. For example, let’s assume that you dislike Literature (you perhaps think it’s an utterly boredom) but love your humongous pit-bull “Casino Joe” Then you could start thinking how your dog would fit as a character into that novel you have to analyze: what its role would be and how he would interact with other characters in the novel.

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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“A CTR champion is a person who makes

a great human out of himself”

-Noemi Trigueros

(HPHS Student 2010-11)

Reflection:

Choosing the right makes you a great person. By choosing the right you are getting more and more practice to become a CTR champion. When you become a champion you will have a great reputation. It is a challenge you will have to overcome. Become a CTR champion so you can make a great human out of yourself.

Acquiring the Habits of Highly Successful Students Part 4

Acquiring the Habits of

Highly Successful Students

Part 4

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The body is related to the breath, and the breath is related to the mind. The body, breath, senses, and mind all function together as a unit. So life virtually means relationship, and thus the art of living and being requires understanding of one’s relationship to the external world and the relationships within oneself.

     All human beings have inner potentials, but many people are not aware of those potentials and do not know how to use them to have a successful life. Those who are not happy externally; those who are not happy within themselves can never make others happy. Those who do not love themselves can never love others.

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Acquiring The Habits Of Highly Successful Students

ACQUIRING THE HABITS OF

HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL STUDENTS

PART 3

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Everyone wants to be successful in life, but where are the keys to success? Do we have to go out and search for those keys, or do we have those potentials already within ourselves? When we begin to examine life, we can see that it is divided into two aspects – life within and life without; internal life and external life—and we can see that these aspects are of equal importance. Even if we have renounced the world, gone far away from civilization, and live in the wilderness doing nothing but meditation, we cannot ignore external life. We still have to see that we eat, do our ablutions, and perform our practices on time. So life in the external world is as important as life in the internal world. Even one who has renounced the world has to understand the word relationship properly, because life itself is actually relationship.

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“The Harmful Effects of Smoking”

“The Harmful Effects of Smoking”

There are so many deaths today in the U.S that are caused by smoking. People tend to have the bad habit of smoking cigarettes and others are even addicted to it. Smoking leads to dangerous consequences. It extremely harms you and your body to the point where you physically look disgusting. People who smoke to the max mess up their lungs making them turn black and making them not function anymore. Other people get oral cancer making their whole mouth turn black and nasty. There are seriously some horrible effects of smoking. I don’t understand why people smoke; all they’re doing is messing up their system. Smoking not only affects you but can also affect the people around you causing them to inhale the smoke you let out of your mouth. This is called second hand smoke. You should stop smoking or if you’ve never tried I warn you to never do it so you could prevent:

·    Oral cancer

·    Lung cancer

·    Throat cancer

·    Heart Attacks

·    Harming others around you

·    Addiction

·    Trouble Breathing

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Acquiring the Habits of Highly Successful Students Part 2

Acquiring the Habits of

Highly Successful Students

Part2

       If we are to succeed in life, we must hone our learning skills.

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1.                The first step in this direction is to sincerely point out the driving force or motivation. Let’s relax, and start listing the reasons that impel you to study some topic, as crude as they may be. It’s possible that your list is empty. Don’t worry, it only means that you have not identified any reason to study the chosen and very specific point (It’s for sure that you are an excellent learner in other areas of life). If you don’t have any motivation to study, then give me the list of reasons why you don’t want to study, and please note that this list cannot be empty. Whether you found a huge list of driving forces or a list of reasons for not studying, the end product of this step comprises at least one item (a positive or negative driving force).

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Acquiring the Habits of Highly Successful Students

Acquiring the Habits of

Highly Successful Students

Part 1

by Herrera

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We humans are innate learners, as learning is the cornerstone for survival. We must remember, abstract and apply knowledge in diverse (and often harsh) environments in order to develop into and behave as truly intelligent beings. In short, the adaptability and resilience we exhibit stems from learning. Now, a key issue to learning is the driving force behind it, i.e., the motivation or stimuli to learn. We can learn because of fear (we want to learn how to protect ourselves from danger). We can learn just out of curiosity (our natural inquisitive behavior). We can learn because we want to reach some social status (approval of others is a potent stimuli to learn). We can learn simply because we love to learn new things every day. There are plenty of reasons to learn and yours may easily be a mixture of these. Health and money are important things in life, but learning is the base for using them wisely.

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“The Importance Of Working Hard In School”

“The Importance Of Working Hard In School”

School is not only a place where you can go and talk to your friends. School is not a place where you can act like a fool and go to sleep. School is a place where you come to learn and work hard. It is a place where you need to stay focused and determined. School is the base of our future. We need to work hard to achieve our goals. School makes a person responsible. When you work hard in school you not only feel good yourself but also highlights the acknowledged and hardworking student you are. If you do not work hard in school you will never be anything important in life, because school can get you to have a career and a fine job where you earn a lot of money. You need to choose the right by working hard in school.

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of.”

-Socrates

Reflection

This quote is saying that you should consider your name very valuable just like a jewel. You should consider your name good. You should look up to your name because it is the richest acid you have that represents you. You should appreciate your name, so therefore you should make it be worth a lot!

How Successful Students Prepare for Tests Part 2

How Successful Students

 Prepare for Tests

Part 2

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8. Make summary sheets, flash cards, and practice tests.
9. Always carry some kind of pocket work and make use of wasted spare minutes by reciting and thinking about what you are learning.
10. Learn something new or difficult in you strongest intelligence, sense or in your dominant hemisphere. Reinforce it with as many different ways as possible.
11. Find a study partner or two in each class and routinely take turns teaching each other the material.

12. Prepare for each class as if there will be a pop quiz. The single most important way to prepare for a test is to study many days in advance. Study each day to prepare for attest that is coming in a few days or weeks. When you are prepared, you will do great on the test and you will be confident.

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How Successful Students Prepare for Tests Part 1

How Successful Students Prepare for Tests

Part 1

Are you really doing everything you can to prepare for tests? Re-reading the chapter and looking over your notes is not enough. Below is a list of tips for test preparation from successful students.

1.   Keep up to date with assignments.

2.   Take notes in every class every day. This includes asking questions when you don’t understand.

3.   Process information as you come to it. Learning information is much different than “becoming acquainted” with it.

4.   Process information systematically. Label in the margin works well for most people.

5.   Adapt it to suit your learning styles. Capitalize on the discipline label in the margin requires and make it habit to process information from texts and lectures, not just go over it.

6.   Have a study place that is free of distractions.

7.   Have a specific time for initial study of each subject. You may need more than this time, but having a set time will save you time.

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The Secrets of Successful Students

The Secrets of Successful Students

Part 2

 

       Successful students take charge of their lives and balance their time between fun and work. They know that there is a time for all-nighters, and it’s not during final week.

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       Successful students take care of themselves do you live on junk food and lay on the couch watching TV every night? Students with poor physical habits probably don’t feel very energetic in the morning, and they probably don’t feel good sitting in class either.

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Good food and a little exercise will clear your hand! Students who eat junk in moderation (you really don’t have to cut it out completely) and work out in some way are most likely-to participate in sports. That means they have more balanced in their lives, feels better in the mornings, and are more alert in class.

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You just have to change a few habits to feel better. Eat healthy foods, start walking more, take a yoga class, enroll in martial arts classes, or challenge yourself to do sit-ups at night. You’ll notice a change right away.

 

Thank you, Grace Fleming, for you suggestions.

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Student Success Statement

 Student Success Statement

“Obedience leads to true freedom”

James E. Faust

 

Reflection

This statement is trying to say that if you obey the rules then you will be free. Following the rules is a great thing to do. Not only great but it’s also the easiest thing you can do. What’s so hard about following the rules? By being obedient you not only feel good but also choose the right. Obey the rules and live a free life!

Secrets of successful students

Secrets of Successful Students

Part 1

It’s a Matter of Taking Charge of Your Time and Destiny!

Have you ever wondered what successful students do to set themselves apart from the rest? The key is simple: successful take charge of their success.

There is no magic trick, power drink, or special class that makes a student excel in the classroom. Students stand out because they take charge of their time and their tasks, without relying on anybody else to tell them what to do.

Successful students control their calendars. Successful students don’t rely on parents or teachers to tell them when assignments are due or when test dates are approaching. They mark special dates in their calendars and keep track of commitments and schedules.

Successful students don’t put others in charge of their lives.

Successful Students Prioritize

Do you like to stay out late with friends? Do you like to go to parties? Do you like to watch TV or play videogames all night? Well, who doesn’t?

 

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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“Your name is a diamond; make sure it shines”

-       Sergio Tovalin

(HPHS 2009)

 

Reflection

 

This statement is definitely true. Your name identifies who you are. If your name is known for something bad then people will recognize you as a bad person. If your name is known for something good then you are identified as good person. You wouldn’t like to be known for something you’re not so I suggest that you start choosing the right and do wise things so people could have great thoughts about you. By choosing the right you keep your name clean and it makes it shine so everyone will know how great you are.

The "C" Student Part 3

The “C” Student

Part 3

 

6. EFFORT: “C” students are capable of sufficient effort, but either fail to realistically evaluate the effort needed to accomplish a task successfully, or lack the desire to meet the challenge. They put forth very little effort. They don’t realize that they will be rewarded according the amount of effort they put into a project. Little effort=bad results.

7. COMMUNICATIONS: “C” students communicate in ways that often limit comprehension or risk misinterpretation. Ideas are not well formulated before they are expressed. Poor listening/reading habits inhibit matching inquiry and response.

8. RESULTS: “C” students obtain mediocore or inconsistent results on tests. They have some concept of what is going on but clearly have not mastered the material.

Source: The Teaching Professor. Paraphrased from John H. Williams, Clarifying Grade Expectations, August/September, 1993 and Paul Solomon and Annette Nellon, Communicating About the Behavioral Dimensions of Grades, February, 1996.

 

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Summary & Reflection

Summary

The Costa Concordia was a beautiful ship traveling peacefully through the Mediterranean Sea until the captain chose to do the wrong. He went beyond the shore and didn’t follow the rules. The ship flipped over and slowly started sinking. The captain of the ship jumped off before evacuating everybody else.

Reflection

The captain of the ship didn’t choose the right and chose to do the wrong. He knew what the rules were but decided to not follow them. Therefore, the actions he committed of bringing the ship too close to shore resulted to the sinking of the ship. By choosing the wrong he risked his life and the lives of others. He also decided to choose the wrong for not doing his job properly. He jumped off the ship without even evacuating the people first. He will now face the consequences of his bad actions.

The “C” Average Student Part 2

The “C” student

Average Student

Part 2

Curiosity: “C” students seldom explore topics deeper than their face value. The lack vision and bypass interconnectedness of concepts. Immediate relevancy is often their singular test for involvement.

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3. RETENTION: “C” students retain less information and for shorter periods. Less effort seems to go towards organizing and associating learned information previous acquired knowledge. They display short-term retention by relying on cramming session that focus on detail, not concepts.

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4. ATTITUDE: “C” students are not visibly committed to class. They participate without enthusiasm. Their body language often expresses boredom.

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5. TALENT: “C” students vary enormously in talent. Some have exceptional ability but show undeniable signs of poor self-management or bad attitudes. Others are diligent but simply average in academic ability.

 

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The “C” student an average Student

The “C” student an average Student

Part 1

Source: The teaching professor Paraphrased from John H Williams, clarifying grade expectations August/September, 1993 and Paul Solomon and Annette Nellon, communicating about the behavioral dimensions of grades, February 1996.

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1.   Attendance: “C” students are often late and miss class frequently. They put other priorities ahead of academic work. In some classes, their health or constant fatigue renders them physically unable to keep up with demands of High-level performance. They think it is ‘cool’ to be tardy because it makes them think they are big shots. Skipping classes down fall for the “C” and failing students.

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2.  PREPARATION: “C” students may prepare their assignments consistently, but often in a perfunctory manner. Their work may be sloppy or careless. At times, it is incomplete or late. They postpone doing home assignments in order to text friends, visit friends Facebook, or send tweets to some of their followers. They take shortcuts to complete academic work. They are short – sighted because they can’t see the long range destruction of taking shortcuts. It never pays off.

 

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