How to Take on College Studying

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 the 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 setting where fellow are available for discussion.
• When you are reading book chapters 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 and require more intense thought at your most productive time of the day.
• Take breaks if you need them so you don't waste time looking a material but not absorbing it.
• Get to know students whom you respect and you can study with or contact to ask questions.
• Keep up with the workload and seek help when you need it.

Choose the Right
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Jenna Huff & Deb Guthmann

SUMMARY: Today we saw a story about two girls who participated in cross-country at there school.

The name of the girl who this story is really about is Jenna Huff, a Sophmore. She helped out a girl named Deb Guthman. They were racing and Deb Guthman was in the lead, Jenna was trailing her for three miles. When Deb was about to win she suddenly felt a excruciating pain on leg. Her hip popped. Jenna thought to herself why would she suddenly stop when she is about to win! So instead of Jenna passing her and winning she stopped and walked her to the finish line and Jenna let Deb win! Jenna won a award more good sportsmanship.

REFLECTION: In this video that we watched today we saw two girls who are basically supposed to be foes. But Jenna certainly didn't thunk that way when she saw Deb laying on the floor in agony. She did the right thing and helped her to the finish line. Jenna might of not won but she is a champion in heart. He did the right thing. It is a great example of Choosing The Right!

How to Take on Challenge Studying

How to Take on Challenge 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've 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 bed to study every day. Then make a schedule.

• Figure out what blocks of time you have available throughout the day, in evenings and on weekends.
• Consider what time of day you are most alert--there are morning people and there are 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

Student Success Statement

"Choosing the right is always the right thing to do."

Alex Linares

REFLECTION: This statement says that the right is always better then the left(wrong). Always decide to do whats right because it will lead to success.

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 it’s 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 massages are proving to be a distraction, tell your friends your only available certain times a day and no to expect a response at other times.

Tip. 8 Become a Task Maker.

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 stress.

Tip. 10 Determine your Priorities.

You can do everything are once. Establish the importance of each item. Then set realistic goals that are attainable.

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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

"It is better to be alone than in bad company"

Anonymous 

REFLECTION: This statement says that it is better to be friendless or alone if we are only going to hang around with a bad crowd. We don't want to hang out with the crowd that does drugs and choose the wrong. It is better to be alone than hang out with future drop outs and failures. We want to succeed not FAIL!!

10 Time Management Tips for Students

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 friends asks you to go to a movie on Thursday night and you have a exam the next morning, realize that it’s okay to say no. Keep you 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

Student Success Statement

"Improvement begins with I"

Anonymous 

REFLECTION: This statement tells us that we need to make a effort to get better. We won't get better at a certain thing overnight. No one else is going to improve us, we need to improve us. Our parents aren't going to make us better, neither our friends we need to give self effort.

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

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 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 scared literature daily. In other words, feed your sprit because your sprit needs spiritual food just like your physical body 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 dairy or journal. Writing helps you focus and make good decisions.

Choose The Right!!

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

"If you do what's right, you have no need to fear."

ANONYMOUS 

REFLECTION: What this anonymous person tells us is that we should not be afraid if we are CTR(choosing the right). If we are CTR why would we worry about going to the principals office or getting a call home. If we CTW(choose the wrong) we have to worry because we can get in trouble at any time giving. So remember CTR and you won't ever need to be afraid!!

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

Habit 7

Part 1

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 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.”

CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!

Student Success Statement

STUDENT SUCCESS STATEMENT

“Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.”

Helen Keller

Reflection: This statement says that alone we can’t do much. But when we work together and in a group we can accomplish so much. If we plan to make a cake we can make two if we work together at half the time too. We should always work with people in harmony rather than work alone all sad. Working together makes things happen faster and maybe even better.

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

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 doesn’t have to be “your way” or “my way” but rather a better way, and 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 from a 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 process. You have to get there.  And the foundation of getting there is this: Learn to celebrate differences.

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

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7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

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 learning.

Why is this habit the key to communication? It’s because the deepest need of the human heart is to be understand. Everyone wants to be respected the valued for who they are a unique, expose their soft middles unless they feel genuine love and understanding. Once they feel it, however, they will tell 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, of the tone and feelings reflected in our voice (40 percent).

Most people are eager to talk and had rather than listen. We have one mouth and two ears. This means we should listen twice as much as we talk. Learn and listen and listen. Listen, really listen, for understanding. Seek first to understand then to be understood—LISTEN.

CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!

Student Success Statement

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: This statement tells us the we try so hard in trying to be “cool” that we forget about things that matter. For example while we are on our quest to become a kid that hangs out with the cool group we forget about those whom we used to kick it with.

7 Habits of Highly Effective

7 Habits of Highly Effective

Habit 4

4. Think Win-Win

Teens can learn to foster the belief that it is possible to create a atmosphere of a 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 is the belief that there’s plenty of success to go around. It’s not either you or me. It’s both if us. It’s not a 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 feelings it brings on. The true test of whether or not you are thinking Win-Win 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!!!

Define EXCEL aritmetic Operations

Define EXCEL aritmetic Operations
+Addition
-Subtraction
*Multiplication
/Division
^Power or Exponent

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

Og Mandino

Reflection: This Statement says that if we are the champions or the losers of a game inside we are still winners. If we lose with dignity and don’t cheat we are more of champs than those who won by cheating. If we choose the right we are choosing to be successful in life. If we choose the wrong we are choosing to live a life of misery and distress. You life depends on what turn you choose to take and that turn should be the right!

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

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 the 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 desire prize and don’t quit until you have realize the achievement of your prize. Then set another prize, another goal or desire that you would really like to achieve. Being with the achievement of your prize in mind. Visualize and then realize. Start by having in mind; know where you are going.

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

CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!

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 this quote is true. I think this because it is no body’s fault if I choose the wrong. I am the only person who should take responsibility for my actions. 

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

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 to do, they press forward with enthusiasm toward the achievement of their assignment, their duties, their responsibilities, 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.

CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!

Student Success Statement

“You make your habits and your habits make you.”

ANON

Reflection: What you do most of the time defines who you are. If you have the habit of talking back and being rude, people will see you as a nasty person. If you always polite and nice to people, people will see you as a great person. 

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

By Sean Covey

For teens, life is not a playground, it’s a jungle. And, being the parent of a teenager isn’t any walk in the park, either. In his 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 old block, and no slacker. His own book has rung in a 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 Statement

Student Success Statement

“Nothing is ever gained in doing what’s wrong.”

Wilford Woodruff

Reflection: When you do wrong your never to get a good result. Maybe for a bit things may seem ok but Karma will always come and get you. If you just simply CTR you don’t have to worry about the bad. CTR!!!

Profile of a successful student Part 3

Profile of a Successful Student

Part 3

... Owns or has easy access to a computer in the Internet access and e-mail

You don’t have to be a computer expert to be a successful in online learning- but you must have access to a personal computer with reliable Internet access, as well as a basic level of competency in using them. Owning a computer with Internet access from your home is ideal buy many students use the computer labs on campus or at the offices 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 have mastered prior to enrolling in an online course.

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Profile of a Successful Student Part 2

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 be willing to share your personal, professional, and educational experiences. You can get to know your class mates through the dialogue that is created in a course environment-sometimes even better than in 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 able to guide and assist you as needed.

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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“It’s not WHERE you live but HOW you live that counts. It’s not where you play the game but HOW you play the game that counts.”

-Mr. Haymore

Reflection: Here Mr. Haymore tells us that it doesn’t matter if we are poor, as long as we CTR and do things with good intentions you are as good as a millionaire. Many of the players in the NBA grew up poor but they never gave up and now they are enjoying life. Another example are people who are millionaires, the majority of them grew up poor but since they don’t give up they are successful now.

Profile of a Successful Student Part 1

Profile of a Successful Student

Part 1

http://www.plymouth.edu/office /online-education-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. 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 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 in available to assist you.

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

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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”

-Henry David Thoreau

Reflection: This statement tells us that as long as you CTR (choose the right) you don’t need to worry about it failing on you. But if you decide to make a bad decision it will fail sooner or later. As long as your decision is a good one you don’t need to worry about anything. Remember always CTR!!!

Successful Students 10

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 continuously 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 leas, establish control or relinquish control, steer your own course or follow others. Failure to take control of their own time is probably the no. I study skills 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 Ludewing called the Ten Commandments for Effective Study Skills which appeared in The Teaching Professor, December, 1992.

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