Time Management

Time Management

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Master the moments and you may be a real pro when it comes to juggling the many demands on your time--classes, homework and activities -- with some family help. College gives you an even higher chance to sharpen your time management skills by doing it all on your own. And that's a good thing since most jobs require multitasking. You might need to take care of current clients while attracting new ones. Respond to email while working on a major presentation or order tomorrow's produce while planning next next week's menu.

Someone said, "Wherever you are, be there." Focus on the present moment and give it all your attention. Don't let your mind drift and wander here and there when you need to be thinking and concentrating on the moment at hand. You can't go back and recapture this moment, so make the most of it while it NOW. Master the present and you will master the future. Work smart by mastering the present moment.

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Writing Skills

Writing Skills

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Communication is at the top of the list of skills that employers look for. And communication in the workplace often means writing.

Health professionals keep patient charts, researchers depend on the money they collect by the writing grant applications, software engineers write technical specifications, and nearly everyone writes e-mail to people inside and outside their organization. And before you even get the chance to interview for a job, you'l need to present yourself in cover letters and resumes.

So, by taking writing serious and doing your best on every research paper, every lab report you write, every writing activity you engage in, you're preparing yourself for a good career.

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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

"Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory."

Herbert Kaufman 

REFLECTION: This statement tells as that as long as good is involved in your success it is a great victory. CTR!

Exam Day: Survival Tips

Exam Day: Survival Tips

Test -- Talking 

Part 3

Identify key words.

This helps you focus on the main idea of challenging questions.

Rephrase difficult questions.

To understand questions better, rewrite them in your own words. Be careful not to change the meaning.

Organize your thoughts before you write.

Take time to organize your responses to short-answer and essay questions. You'll reduce the time you need to revise.

Write neatly.

Be sure you don't lose points on answers the teacher can't read.

Use all the time you're given.

If you finish early don't leave. Use the extra time to proofread and review your answers.

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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

"There is no justification ever for choosing any part of what you know to be evil."

Ayn Rand

REFLECTION: This statement tells us that choosing the wrong is never a good thing to do. There should no reasons for you to even have the idea of choosing the wrong. Choosing the wrong should never be on you daily schedule but Choosing The Right should.

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

"Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right."

Mario Cuomo 

(52nd governor of NY)

REFLECTION: This tells us that is we are not certain it is the right thing to do than we shouldn't do it at all. 9 out of 10 times the thing you think is wrong is wrong.

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

"You have only always to do what is right. It will become easier by practice, and you enjoy in the midst of your trails the pleasure of an approving conscience."

Robert E. Lee

REFLECTION: This tells us that there is always time to do right. There is always time to do what you think is right. You will enjoy doing the right thing and your conscience will be clean.
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Note-Talking Strategies

Note-Talking Strategies 

Part 4

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For Review 

Once you've done all of the above, you'll find you've created your own personalized study guide. Cover the main section of the page and use the key words and questions in the left margin as a quiz.

Stick to It

Review your notes the day you take them and all your notes once a week. That way, you won't need to study as much when it's test time. You've been doing the work all along. Try out the Cornell system, but if it doesn't work for you, experiment with other methods. Ask your classmates how they take notes or ask a teacher for advice. Taking good notes requires practice, like any other skill. And the more you work at it now, the more prepared you'll be to take notes in college.

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Note-Taking Strategies

Note-Taking Strategies

Part 3

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After Class

As soon as class ends, review your notes and fill in any blanks. Underline, highlights and use symbols to sort through the information, if you don't understand something, get help from your teacher or classmates.

After you've reviewed all your notes from class, in the left-handed area of the page write down key words and questions your teacher might ask on a test.

At the bottom of each page, write a summary of the notes. This helps you digest what you've learned. It also improves your memory of the material for the long term and for test down the road.

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Note-Taking Strategies

Note-Taking Strategies

Part 1

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How to Get Your Class Notes into Shape

Getting the most out of high school and college means studying hard and using your time in class wisely. An effective note-taking strategy can help you do both. He are the basics.

Stay Organized 

It may seem obvious, but your class notes can only help you if you can find them. When you're taking notes be sure to:

• Keep all your notes in one place.
• Date and number pages; keeping them in order makes it easier to understand them later.

Before Class

Review the materials assigned for that class period thoroughly. Bring a list of and questions you may have.

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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lives within us."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

REFLECTION: This tells us that if someone is talking smack behind are bad, we should not worry about it because in side we know we are great people!

Distance Education: Is a Virtual Classroom for You?

Distance Education: Is a Virtual Classroom for You?

Part 2

Positive Aspects of Distance Education 

• Independence and time management: Taking courses online lets you hone your ability to work on your own. You also gain experience in managing your time efficiently.
• A flexible schedule: Schools can only provide a certain number of class periods in a single school day, and there may not be enough time for you to take everything you want. Because Distance education lets you take classes outside regular school hours, it gives you the flexibility to explore all your areas of interest.
• Advanced and specialized classes: Some schools can't provide advanced or specialized classes. Distance education gives you the chance to gain experience in areas that would otherwise remain out of reach.

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Marion Jones

Summary: This story is about a girl named Marion Jones who was a 5 time medalist at the Sydney Olympics, 3 of those medals where Gold! Everyone seen her as a very awesome athlete. Later on they figured out that she used performance-enhancement drugs. She spent 6 months in prison and was stripped of his medals.

Reflection: She Choose The Wrong and cheated her way to getting those medals she received. She deserved everything that happened to her.

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement 

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing."

Theodore Roosevelt 

REFLECTION: This tells us that every time you get to decide to do bad or good you should always choose right!

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Selecting Your Courses

Selecting Your Courses

Part 5

The Arts

Research indicates that students who participate in the arts often do better in school and on standardized tests. The arts help you recognize patterns, discern differences and similarities, and exercise your mind in unique ways, often outside a traditional classroom setting.

Many colleges require or recommend one or two semesters in the arts. Good choices include studio art, dance, music and drama. Many students have talents and extraordinary abilities and take college classes to develop their talents.

Advanced Placement Program (AP)

To be sure you are ready to take college-level work, enroll in the most challenging courses you can in high school, such as honors or AP courses. Research consistently shows that students who score a 3.0 or higher on an AP Exam typically experience greater academic success and college graduation rates than students who don't take AP.

Work hard in your righteous pursuits, and you will reap the benefits of self-fulfillment and job satisfaction. Don't take shortcuts just to "get-by," instead, take challenging and difficult roads (courses) and reach higher mountain peaks of achievement.

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The Power of Study Groups

The Power of Study Groups

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Part 2

The Benefits of Study Groups

Group study offers other advantages in addition to gaining a deeper understanding of class material. These include the opportunity to: Reinforce note-taking. If AP Biology notes are unclear, you can ask a member of your study group to help you fill the gaps. Share talents. Each person brings different strengths, such as organization skills, the ability to stick to a task or a capacity for memorization.

Cover more ground. Group members may be able to solve calculus problem together that none would solve alone. Benefit from a support system. Members often have common goals such as good grades. Each person's work affects that of the other members, which results in making members supportive of one another. Socialize. It's more fun to study with others; the give and take makes it more interesting. And because it's more fun you spend more time studying!

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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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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.

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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.