Student Success Statement: Joseph Smith

Student Success Statement

“It is our duty to concentrate all our influence to make popular that which is sound and food, and (to make) unpopular that which is unsound (not good).”

Joseph Smith

Reflection: Smith is saying that we need to focus on showing people what is right, to show them that it is important and we as humans need to be examples to teach the next generations what right is. He means we have to show that things like recycling, anti-bullying, being ecofriendly are good habits to have and to make those popular. When you put things like alcohol, drugs, and bad role models children (our next generation) will view that as good, do you think we should? It is a factor or common decency yet people portray it as we are “judging” the way you raise your child. If you put a child in front of two separate people, one being a rapper with luxuries and then a neuroscientist beside one another the child would obviously choose the person well suited to they’re interests. When you think of what it would be it is WE NEED TO LEAD BY EXAMPLE!

Successful Students: 9

Successful Students

9

9. …don’t cram for exams. Successful students know that divided periods of study are more effective than cram sessions, and they practice it.

There is one thing that study skills specialists agree on, it is that distributed study is better than massed, late-night, last-ditch efforts known as cramming. You’ll learn more, remember more, and earn a higher grade by studying in four, one hour-a-night sessions for Friday’s exam than studying for four hours straight on Thursday night. Short, concentrated preparatory efforts are more efficient and rewarding than wasteful, inattentive, last moments marathons. Yet, so many students fail to learn this lesson and end up repeating it over and over again until it becomes a wasteful habit. Not too clever, huh?

When you cram, you are taking a shortcut, and shortcuts never produce any real worthwhile results. Also, when you take shortcuts, you feel rather rotten knowing that you could have done better but didn't. Shortcuts cut you short. You can’t plant watermelons seeds and harvest fresh watermelons the next day. It takes time. Cramming for a test or project and expecting to make a high score for the next day is like planting watermelon seeds and expecting a harvest and eat fresh watermelon the next day. Plus cramming for a test doesn’t help you academically, so why even do it. Plan ahead, prepare ahead. Give yourself plenty of days and weeks to prepare for upcoming accountability opportunities.

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Student Success Statement: Howard Cosell

Student Success Statement

“What’s right isn’t always popular. What’s popular isn’t always right.”

Howard Cosell

Reflection: Mr. Cosell is stating an inevitable fact in society, when someone does something it has a chain reaction effect. You need to do what YOU think is right, not what anyone else thinks. You need to realize what is right. Right is something you need to discover on your own with guidance or how else would you know what’s bad in society in your life, anywhere? You need to do what’s right to prove to yourself you’re great. If something is popular, like weed for instance, if I asked you to try some what would you do? I wouldn’t ever try any myself because I know the dangers, I know the consequences but not by experience by learning. Just like people need to LEARN about things, to know what is right, to know what right is.  

Successful Students: 7-8

Successful Students

7-8

7.  … understand that actions affect learning. Successful students know their personal behavior affects their feelings and emotions which in turn can affect learning.

If you act in a certain way that normally produces particular feelings, you will begin to experience those feelings. Act like you’re bored, and you’ll be bored. Act like you’re disinterested, and you’ll be disinterested. So the next time you have trouble concentrating in the classroom, “act” like an interested person: lean forward, place your feet flat on the floor, maintain eye contact with the professor, nod occasionally, take notes, and ask questions. Not only will you benefit directly from your actions, your classmates and professor may also get more excited and enthusiastic.

8.  … talk about what they’re learning. Successful students get to know something well enough that they can put it into words. Talking about something, with friends or classmates, is not only good for checking whether or not you know something, it’s a proven learning too. Transferring ideas into words provides the most direct path for moving knowledge from short-term to long-term memory. If you really don’t “know” material until you can put it into words. So, next time you study, you don’t do it silently. Talk about notes, problems, reading, etc. with friends, recite to a chair, organize an oral study group, pretend you’re teaching your peers. “Talk-learning” produces a whole host of memory traces that result in more learning.

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Successful Students 5-6

Successful Students

5-6

5. Don’t sit in the back of the room. Successful Students minimize classroom distractions that interfere with learning.

Students want the best seat available for their entertainment dollars, but willingly seek the worst seat for their educational dollars. Students who sit in the back cannot possibly be their professor’s teammate (see no. 4). Why do they expose themselves to the temptations of inactive classroom experiences and distractions of all the people between them and their instructor? Of course, we all know they choose the back if the room because they seek invisibility or anonymity, both of which are antithetical to efficient and effective learning. If you are trying not to be part of the class, then, you are wasting your time? Push your hot buttons, is there something else you should be doing with your time?

6.  …take good notes. Successful students take notes that are understandable and organized, and review them often.

Why put something into your notes you don’t understand? Ask the questions now that are necessary to make your notes meaningful at some later time. A short review of your notes while the material is still fresh on your mind helps you to learn more. The more you learn then, the less you’ll have to learn later and the less time it will tale because you won’t have to include some deciphering time, also. The whole purpose of taking notes is to use them, and use them often. The more you use them, the more they improve.

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Advisory

1. I eat foods that I know aren't very nutritious. 2
2. I eat meals or heavy snacks after 7 at night. 2
3. I'm afraid i'll gain weight. 0
4. I eat when i'm not hungry. 2
5. I eat foods my parents don't want me to eat. 0
6. I'm self-conscious about how I look. 0
7. When I'm bored or depressed, I eat a lot. 2
8. I go on eating binges, 0
9. I eat until I'm uncomfortable 2
10. I hide foods or sneak them. 0
11. I eat because I feel "who cares'? 0
12. I drink alcoholic beverages. 0
13. I have uncontrollable urges of hunger. 2
14. Feelings of anger or hostility overwhelm me. 0
15. I indulge in sweets. 2
16. I eat when i'm tired or overwhelmed. 2
17. I like to eat alone. 2
18. I use appetite suppressants. 0
19. My parents made sweets available or used them for rewards. 0
20. I eat and run. 0
21. I don't have respect for myself or my body. 0
22. I feel rushed or hurried. 0
23. I have a snack or meal an hour before I go to bed. 2
24. I crave sweet foods. 2
25. When I eat with other people, I feel self-conscious. 0
26. I gulp my food. 2
27. I wish I looked like someone else. 0
28. I eat or drink in secret. 0
29. I feel as if I'm the middle of a struggle. 4
30. I eat when I can't sleep. 2

30 points -

4- Ocassionally 

2- Sometimes

0- Never

Student Success Statement: Martin Luther King Jr

Student Success Statement

“The time is always right to do what is right.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Reflection: Well there is always time to do what’s right but tell me right is what you think it . Right is however you view it and if you are someone who’s sees it as an opportunity for redemption or an opportunity to help out our community which would be right? You need to show you are genuine about doing what’s right if not your lying to yourself. Martin Luther King Jr worked, no dedicated his life in being an activist in the way racism was being foretold in his time he wanted to show no matter who you are you can achieve success, and  this quote just shows how ahead of his time he really was. If he would have quit in not doing what he thought was right, how would life be? He shows you need to be genuine about how much you care not only in life but in things you feel strongly about to become what you wanted in doing what you think is right. All you need to do is show how much you care about something you can do it anytime you want there isn’t a time you should quit at it if it deems representable. You need to have justifiable reasons why you care, why you are someone who needs to be heard, why you are someone who is genuinely doing what’s right.

Successful Students: 3-4

Successful Students

3-4

3.   ... ask questions. Successful students ask questions to provide the quickest route between ignorance and knowledge. In addition to securing knowledge you seek, asking questions has at least two other extremely important benefits. The process helps you pay attention to your professor and helps your professor pay attention to you! Think about it. If you want something, go after it. Get the answer now, or fail a question later. There are no foolish questions, only foolish silence. It’s your choice.

4. … learn that a student and a professor make a team. Most instructors want exactly what you want: they would like for you to learn the material in their respective classes and earn a good grade.

Successful students reflect well on efforts of any teacher; if you have learned your material, the instructor takes some justifiable pride in teaching. Join forces with your instructor, they are not your enemy, you share the same interests, the same goals -  in short, your teammates. Get to know your professor. You’re the most valuable players on the team. Your jobs are to work together for mutual success. Neither wishes to chalk up a losing season. Be a team player!

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