Honesty

Honesty

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Honesty is always the best policy. Employers need to know that they can trust you with everything from company credit cards to trade secrets. How can you work at honesty? You demonstrate integrity every day that you do your own homework and resist the temptation to cheat on exams.

http://www.k12.hi.us/~mkunimit/honesty.htm

• Honesty is telling the truth.
• Honesty is straightforward conduct.
• Honesty is being sincere, truthful, trustworthy, honorable, fair, genuine, and loyal with integrity.

You are being honest when you...

• Do you own homework
• Tell a friend the truth
• Explain the real reason you didn't turn in your homework
• keep your eyes on your own paper
• Clean up your room after making a promise 
• Give the cashier the extra money she gave you by mistake
• Write a report in your own words instead of copying
• Admit you made the mistake 
• Keep a friend's secret 
• Turn in a wallet full of money you found

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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

"The man who has no imagination had no wings"

Muhammad Ali

REFLECTION: This statement tells us that imagination is the key to the a successful life. For example if you legs no walking.

Speaking Skills

Speaking Skills 

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When you're assigned a class presentation, think twice before dismissing it as an unimportant part of your education. Employers look for speaking skills in job applicants, who may have to give presentations to clients or represents their organization in the field. It's never too soon to practice good eye contact and other public speaking techniques. 

http://www.newswiretoday.com/news/17334

According to The Book of Lists, the fear of public speaking ranks number one in the minds if the majority of people. Far above the fear of death and disease, comes the fear of standing in front of a crowd. Joel Wiener noted author and public speaker wants to help people overcome that fear.

"The biggest fear is public speaking, with 15 percent of America experiencing a dramatic fear of it,"said  Dr. Micheal Telch of the Laboratory for the Study of Anxiety Disorders (LSAD) in the department of Psychology at The University of Texas at Austin. "People have had to turn down jobs, and certainly students have dropped classes because of it." Regardless of your occupation, your success depends a great deal upon your ability to communicate effectively! Whether you're running a meeting, selling a product, making a presentation, motivating co-workers or just communicating one- on-one with others, you'll get far better results if you can speak persuasively, smoothly and intelligently.

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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

"Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement."

Matt Biondi

REFLECTION: This statement tells us that if we do bad in something we can make it better if we work hard and never give up.

Exam Day: Survival Tips Test -- Taking

Exam Day: Survival Tips Test -- Taking

Part 1

Essential Test-Taking Advice 

Try out these strategies while you're still in high school, and by the time you get to college, you'll be a test-taking expert.

Before the Test:

Eat well.

Studies show that you need good nutrition to concentrate and perform your best.

Bring the right supplies.

Bring your pencils, erasers, pens, rulers, compasses, calculators or whatever else you need on test day.

Review the whole test before you start.

See how many sections and what types of questions are on the test. Determine how much time to allow for completing each section.

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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

"When an archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bulls-eye is never the fault of the target. Improve your aim, improve yourself."

Gilbert Arland 

REFLECTION: This statement tells us that when you fail at something you are trying to achieve, it is nobody's fault but yours. If you fail a test it is not the teachers fault it is yours for not studying good enough. If you miss a shot during a basketball game it is not your coaches fault it is yours for not practicing it enough, but if you work hard practice really hard you will make that shot 9 out of 10 times.

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.

Reading

Reading

5 Tips for Success

Tip 5

Tip 5: Keep a List of Questions

When you feel confused about something you're reading, write down any questions you have. Sometimes your questions are answered as you read further. If nor, don't be afraid to ask for help. Remember, teachers create assignments; they've read the texts and are familiar with them. When you have specific questions, your teachers can provide answers that will help you better understand the material. Learning is rooted in questions developed and asked by the learner.

Asking questions to yourself, to the teacher, and to others, is a great learning method. When you cease to exist to a great extent. Read actively by silently asking questions as you are reading and therefore will expand your mental capacities more than almost anything else.

The philosopher Sir Francis Bacon said, "Knowledge is power." Improving your reading comprehension is the key to gaining important knowledge and making the most of your education. So pick up a book ... and a pen.

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Reading

Reading

5 Tips for Success

Tips 3-4

Tip 3: Do Research 

Literary critics have written vast numbers of analytical and critical pieces on countless books. If you're having trouble understanding a particular text, do some research and see what knowledgeable sources have to say about it. In addition to increasing your comprehension, you'll also be showing initiative, something teachers always like to see. Always use legitimate and scholarly sources, not condensed study guides. Going the extra mile in your research elevates your achievement 10-fold.

Tip 4: Use a Dictionary 

Make sure you have access to a dictionary when you're reading. You can often figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word by using context clues, but sometimes you can't. Rather than simply skipping over the words you don't know, take the time to look them up. The results are well worth the effort. Your comprehension will increase greatly, and you'll build your vocabulary at the same time.

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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.

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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Selecting Your Courses

Selecting Your Courses

Recommended Classes for College Success

Part 1

http://www.collegeboard.com/student/plan/high-school/33.html

The academic rigor of your high school courses is an important factor in the college admission process. College admission officers see your high school course schedule as a blueprint of your education. They're looking for solid foundation of learning that you can build on in college.

To create that foundation, take at least five solid academic classes every semester. Start with the basics and then move on to advanced courses. Challenging yourself is part of what makes school fun; but you need a firm grasp of the fundamentals before going on to more advanced work.

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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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Successful Students 10

Successful Students

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     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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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 different between leading and being led. Your own efforts control your grade, you earn the glory or deserve the blame, you make the choice. Active classroom participation improves grades without increasing study time. You can sit there, act bored, daydream, or sleep. Or, you can actively listen, think, question, and take notes like someone in charge of their learning experience. Either option cost one class period. However, the former method will require 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 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 do everything can, and                                                                                                                                 will!

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Study for Multiple Exams Part 1

Study for Multiple Exams 
Part 1

How I study for multiple exams, deal with projects: Really it is my time management that I explain above. If I see that I have multiple things due or to study for all the same time spread out my time beforehand. For example, if I have a test Monday, and 2 test Tuesday then I will for my Monday test Thursday and part of Friday. Start Studying for my next test on the second half of Friday and part of Saturday then my second Tuesday test on Saturday as well as part of Sunday. Then Sunday night I can review for my Monday test because I already studied for it. When that test is over I can begin reviewing for the other test.

My overall study method: I try to break it up over several days or at least two. I get bogged down if I try to pull an all nighter.

How I’ve overcome an initial  bad grade: If I received a low grade I probably  knew it was coming because I didn’t prepare properly or I didn’t use the right  study habit for that class. I usually try to go over what I did wrong and sometime discuss with the teacher what I can do differently on the next exam or what they suggest I do for studying for the exam.

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