Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

"Improve your performance by improving your attitude."

ANON

REFLECTION: This tells us that to make are selves better at something we must change are attitude towards it. For example if we want more friends we must be very friendly.

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.

Choose The Right

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

"Gold medals don't make champions... hard work does."

ANON

REFLECTION: This statement tells us that we work to be champions and we should work hard, we don't just get something we earn it. For example in the Olympics you don't get a gold medal first than perform, you perform first.

Online Learning

Online Learning 

Part 1

Read Between the Lines

Make a judgment about the site's reliability based on your own analysis of the site and the information it contains. Here are some ways to do this:

• Look for facts you know or can check with a trusted source. If the site gets those facts right, it's more likely that the other facts on the site are also accurate.
• Study the language used. Is it angry, satiric or overly impassioned? This may indicate the site is biased.
• Consider whether the arguments are logical and backed up by evidence, and whether the site presents only one point of view.
• Check the links to the sources that the author acknowledges. Scholarly writing, whether om print or online, should include a bibliography.

Choose The Right

Student Success Statement

"The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character."

Margaret Chase Smith

REFLECTION: This statement tells us that when we do the right thing when other people don't think it is cool to makes you a great person, for example your friends are smoking weed and you don't want to, that makes you a great person!

It's Online, but Is It On Target?

It's Online, but Is It On Target?

Part 3

Dot-What?

Look at the site's address. What follows the dot?

• Dot-com is not only for businesses; anyone can use it. Dot-coms include well-known and respected companies, but also private individuals.
• Dot-org usually indicates a not-for-profit organization. Many dot-org present unbiased information, but others have political agendas, focus on debatable issues instead of facts, and might not present all sides of an argument.
• Dot-gov indicates a governments website at the federal, state or local level. The federal government is a good source of statistics, and its sites are widely considered among the most reliable.
• Dot-mil is used by sites that are part of the military.
• Dot-edu usually indicates a university website. While its published research is generally considered very trustworthy, anyone associated with the university, whether a world-renowned scholar or a freshman, can be given space on its server. Professors sometimes put student course work up on the Web, but that doesn't mean they're vouching for the information's accuracy.

Choose The Right

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

"Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential."

Liane Cordes 

REFLECTION: This tells us that if we continue to work hard and try hard we will find our inner potential. On the other hard if you rely on just having things done for you, you will not go far.