Student Success Statement/ Reflection

Student Success Statement

 

“Take care of yourself and everything else will fall into place.”

-Coach David Diamont

 

Reflection

Ways I can take care of myself would be taking care of myself physically. I may accomplish this by having a healthy diet, exercising, and sleeping well. I way I can take care of  myself mentally would be not stressing by managing my time well.

Ten Tips for Being More Truthful

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10 Tips for Being More Truthful

Ten Tips for Being More Truthful

By: Barbara A. Lewis

 

 

1.     Make a commitment to tell the truth

2.     Tell someone about your commitment

3.     Think before you give a dishonest answer, explanation or reason.

4.     Be careful of when and how you use exaggeration, sarcasm, or irony.

5.     Be careful not to twist the truth or leave out part of it.

6.     Don’t indulge in little white lies or cover-ups.

7.     Watch out for silent lies.

8.     When you catch yourself lying, throw your mouth into reverse.

9.     Talk to yourself. Ask yourself, “How do I really feel about this? What’s the best thing to do? How can I keep my commitment to myself?”

10.                         Treat yourself when you tell the truth even when it’s hard to do.

 

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Be Wise-Never Use Drugs or Alcohol

Be Wise!

Acquiring the Habits of Highly Successful Students Part 12

Acquiring the Habits of Highly Successful Students

Part 12

What is important to you is that you, as you start to reach milestones in your ambitions, you appreciate your own achievements. It is a boost, of course, if others appreciate what you have done too, but appreciating yourself will strengthen your self-belief, and reinforce your determination to succeed. Some of the key characteristics you will find in those who are successful are perseverance, prepared to research, plan and work hard, practice a lot even when things do not seem to be going well, and an ability to recover and learn from setbacks. At the outset of whatever it is you are trying to succeed in, a strong vision of your future, planning, and setting yourself achievable targets can all play an important role.

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Choose The Right

Acquiring the Habits of Highly Successful Student Part 11

Acquiring the Habits of Highly Successful Students

Part 11

Whether studying or in general life, planning is an imperative skill. Here, we must strictly set the hours for studying, and should promote regularity in doing so. Don’t put off your studies to the last moment (just before the test), because in that moment you will be feeling stress and pressure, and both factors will prove disturbing for your learning; that’s the high price of procrastination. During the exam, it’s important to forget about panic and stress. And if you are planning for your thesis, you may find this post useful. Other planning tip I  frequently hive is that, when you are assigned a homework, try to solve it as quickly as possible, several days before the required date, but don’t try to complete it perfectly and don’t summit it immediately. I always recommend doing homework early, but deliver it at the last possible day.

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Be Wise

“Be Wise—Never Use Drugs or Alcohol”

Alcohol is a drug. Drugs only have negative impacts on people. They shouldn’t even be a reason why one should begin to use alcohol. Me as an eleventh grader has seen people lost in their addiction. I pity them. But I am also thankful that by seeing these people suffer I am reminded of the horrifying effects. Drugs do not only damage you physically, but mentally as well. There is so many reasons why one shouldn’t use drugs and people are still naïve about it. It doesn’t take knowledge to prevent you from doing drugs, but it does take wisdom. One may know all the facts about the damages a drug may cause, but will still go on and doing it. A wise person would take in consideration th4e consequences and would not take any drugs. There are millions of people who suffer from addiction, such as alcoholism. I, for example, do not need to search hard to find someone who is suffering because of drug use. I have an uncle who is a coke addict. His life is thrown away. He lives in a near city, and there comes days when I see him on the street filthy, unshaved, and totally out of it. I find that very sad. Knowing one of my love ones is going through such a horrible experience. I constantly wonder what could he had made with his life if he had never tried drugs and gotten hooked into it. I am so many others suffer just like my uncle. It is something that can easily be prevented. I wish my uncle had the wisdom to not ever even try out the drug. I wish the same for the rest who are hooked, but I know that there are still many who can never start. They just have to be wise enough to say no, and realize it is not worth it.

Highly Successful Students Part10

Highly Successful Students

Part 10

·       They prefer tasks with some degree of difficulty and novelty, which stimulate their learning skills.

·       They don’t apply the simple criteria of success-fail to their learning. Remember, they are focused into the learning process.

·       They know how to handle groups.

·       Finally, they work with passion.

 

Other chief habit is that of asking questions. We have to establish hypothesis and set concrete, realistic goals. After reading any text we have to ask several different questions related to its content, in order to verify if we have completely understood the text. It’s also important to try to relate such text and other areas of our knowledge. Again, linking ideas and concepts is a habit of highly successful students. So, link.

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Acquiring the Hsbits of Highly Successful Students

Acquiring the Habits of Highly Successful Students

•    They concentrate on the process of solving the task and understanding the involved ideas. Of course we are interested in getting good results, but the process is more important. A result is very brief moment of life, while learning to develop processes is a skill that will last for the whole life.

• They interpret and analyze errors as a way of increasing their learning, i.e., they try to learn from their mistakes. This way, they see errors and fail as opportunities.

•    They look for the required information in several channels (books, journals, newspapers, experts, Internet, and so on.)

 

•   They consult experts and teachers frequently . This action provides a new perspective about studied topics.

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Acquiring the Habits of Highly Successful Students Part 7

Acquiring the Habits of Highly Successful Students

Part 7

 

·        Everyone wants to be successful in life, but where are the keys to success? Do we have to go out and search for those keys, or do we have those potentials already within ourselves? When we begin to examine life, we can see that it is divided into two aspects – life within and life without; internal life and external life – and we can see that these aspects are of equal importance. Even if we have renounced the world, gone far away from civilization, and live in the wilderness doing nothing but meditation, we cannot ignore external life. We still have to see that we eat, do our ablutions, and perform our practices on time. So life in the external world is as important as life in the internal world.

 

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Acquiring the Habits of highly Successful Students

 

 

Acquiring the Habits of highly Successful Students

Part 6

If you prefer to play videogames, then remember that making any game requires to prepare a detailed script including history, characters, goals and relations. Therefore, you could start writing down the script for your “dream” game. On the other side, you could imagine how the novel you are reading could be transformed into a videogame (start out by thinking which gaming genre fits the novel better: role-playing, adventure, action, and so on.) the basic idea is to find match points and links between our affections and our chores. And such linked there always exist. Remember, to link ideas and concepts is the most important habit for successful students.

Successful students also exhibit other particular traits we should internalize:

·       They are always trying to discover better approaches in order to accomplish their tasks (adequate studying place, availability of resources, etc.) you may find my post on Pristine Home with Feng Shui useful for improving your studying environment.

 

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Acquiring the Habits of Highly Successful Students Part 5

Acquiring the Habits of Highly Successful Students

Part 5

2-Success is about achieving goals, and therefore is a relative notion. Highly successful students are those which set realistic goals, and attain them with the proper investment of resources. Thus, not necessarily the student with the best grades is the most successful learner. Now, we have stated what the successful student is like. Good.

2-if you have negative entries in your list of driving forces, it’s time to improve things quite a bit. First, identify other topics that you indeed like a lot , not necessarily related to studying. Perhaps you like pets, to cook or to play videogames. Now, try to establish associations or links between these favorite activities of yours and the subject of study that you dislike. For example, let’s assume that you dislike Literature (you perhaps think its an utterly boredom) but love your humongous pit-bull “Casino Joe” Then you could start thinking how your dog would fit as a character into that novel you have to analyze: what its role would be and how he would interact with other characters in the novel.

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Student Success Statement/ Reflection

Student Success Statement

“A CTR champion is a person who makes a great Human out of himself.”

                                                  -Noemi Trigueros

(HPHS Student 2010-11)

 

                            Reflection

I agree with Noemi. I strongly agree that by always choosing the right you will make a great person out of yourself. Choosing the right at every moments makes one a CTR champion. The outcome of always using the right is significant and great. One becomes a great human being.

Acquiring the Habits of HIghly Successful Students Part 4

Acquiring the Habits of Highly Successful Students

Part 4

The body is related to the breath, and the branch is related to the mind. The body, breath, senses, and mind all function together as a unit. So life virtually means relationship, and thus the art of living and being requires an understanding of one’s relationship to the external world and the relationships within oneself.

All human beings have inner potentials, but many people are not aware of those potentials and do not know how to use them to have a successful life. Those who are not happy internally can never be Happy externally; those who are not happy within themselves can never make others happy. Those who do not love themselves can never love others.

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Acquiring the habits of Highly Successful Students Part 3

Acquiring the Habits of Highly Successful Students

Part 3

 

Everyone wants to be successful in life, but where are the keys to success? Do we have those potentials already within ourselves?  when we begin to examine life, we can see that it is divided into two aspects – life within and life without; internal life and external life – and we can see that these aspects are of equal importance. Even if we have renounced the world, gone far away from civilization, and live in the wilderness doing nothing but meditation, we cannot ignore external life. We still have to see that we eat, do our ablutions, and perform our practices on time. So life in the external world is as important as life in the external world is as important as life in the internal world. Even one who has renounced the world has to understand the word relationship properly, because life itself is actually relationship.

 

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THe Harmful Effects of Smoking

“The Harmful Effects of Smoking”

    Cigarettes are drugs. Smoking is the act of using this drug. If people only realized that they are inhaling pure toxics. Smoking is deadly, causing millions of deaths around the world. It is one of the most popular drugs in the world. Sadly it is legal in our home place. A cigarette can be purchased in almost any liquor or store in the United States. The only thing required is to be of eighteen years or older. This drug is not only a roll of toxic, but very addictive. Among the deadly and harmful chemicals in a cigarette, there is nicotine. This makes smoking cigarettes highly addictive. Smoking has no good outcome. One may end up with so many difficulties and unbeneficial effects because of smoking. Upon these diseases and bad outcomes there are:

·       Lung cancer

·       Mouth cancer

·       Bladder cancer

·       Other health issues

·       Waste of money

·       Makes you age

·       Endangering everyone around

 

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Aquiring the Habits of Highly Successful Students Part 2

Acquiring the Habits of Highly Successful Students

Part 2

If we are to success in life, we must hone our learning skilled.

1.    The first step in this direction is to sincerely point out the driving force or motivation. Let’s relax, and start listening the reasons that impel you to study some topic, as crude as they may be. It’s possible that your list is empty. Don’t worry, it only means that you have not identified any reason to study the chosen and very specific point (it’s for sure that you are an excellent learner in other areas of life.) if you don’t have any motivation to study, then give me the list of reasons why you don’t want to study, and please note that this list cannot be empty. Whether you sound a huge list of driving forces or a list of reasons for not studying, the end product of this step comprises at least one item (a positive or negative driving force)

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acquiring the Habits of Highly Successful Student Part 1

Acquiring the Habits of Highly Successful Students

                                                                            Part 1

By Herrera

We Humans are innate learners, as learning is the cornerstone for survival. We must remember, abstract and apply knowledge in diverse (and often harsh) environments in order to develop into and behave as truly intelligent beings. In short, the adaptability and resilience we exhibit stems from learning. Now, a key issue to learning is the driving force behind it, i.e., the motivation or stimuli to learn. We can learn because of fear (we want to learn how to protect ourselves from danger.) we can learn just out of curiosity (our natural inquisitive behavior.) we can learn because we want to reach some social status (approval of others is a potent stimuli to learn.) we can learn because we want to reach some social status (approval of others is potent stimuli to learn.) we can learn simply because we love to learn new things everyday. There are plenty of reasons to learn and you may easily be a mixture of these. Health and money are important things in life, but learning is the base for using them wisely.

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Student Success Statement/Reflection

Student Success Statement

“Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of.”

-Socrates

 

                 Reflection

One should value they’re name. It is our identity. Respecting our name is respecting ourselves. Our name identifies each one of us. We have to treasure our reputation. Cherish it!

How Successful Students Prepare For Tests Part2

How Successful Students Prepare for Tests

Part2

8. Make summary sheets, flash cards, and practice tests.

9. Always carry some kind of pocket work and make use of wasted spare minutes by reciting and thinking about what you are learning.

10. Learn something new or difficult in you strongest intelligence, sense or in your dominant hemisphere. Reinforce it with as many different ways as possible.

11. Find a study partner or two in each class and routinely take turns teaching each other the material.

12. Prepare for each class as if there will be a pop quiz.

The single most important way to prepare for a test is to study many days in advance. Study each day to prepare for a test that is coming in a few days or weeks. When you are prepared, you will do great on the test and you will be confident.

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How Successful Students Prepare for Tests

How Successful Students Prepare for Tests

Part 1

Are you really doing everything you can to prepare for tests? Re-reading the chapter and looking over your notes is not enough. Below is a list of tips foe tests preparation from successful students.

 

1       Keep up to date with assignments.

2       Take notes in every class every day. This includes asking questions when you don’t understand.

3       Process information as you come to it. Learning information is much different than “becoming acquainted” with it.

4       Process information systematically. Label in the margin works well for most people.

5       Adapt it to suit your learning styles. Capitalize on the discipline label in the margin requires and make it habit to process information from texts and lectures, not just go over it.

6       Have a study place that is free of distractions.

7       Have a specific time for initial study of each subject. You may need more than this time, but having a set time will save you time.

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