The Importance Of Student Success

1. Which success elements did you learn during this class that you found the most helpful/interesting? Did you implement them into your life? If so, did they work out for you? If not, why not?

I have lived in Morgan Township my whole life and went to Morgan Elementary as a child. Through these years I have seen first hand how much teachers cared about their students. Many teachers formed one on one relationships with kids including me. Suddenly, the teachers seem more like your friends. This is something that I feel is very important when wanting to have a successful school district. In addition, Ross has always held students to a higher academic standard than most schools in the area. Which I feel in some cases is needed. Ross does an excellent job promoting academic success. Whether it be coming in early for help, or study skills. Ross provides amazing tools for students in achieving this goal. Another truly amazing aspect about

Even beyond college, there are many people who can’t seem to think for themselves, and the skill is learned years later down the road. Thinking critically is a skill that will be used throughout a person’s life, and it's important that, through education, students will learn it. Student's think that they will never use these subjects in your life, but in reality, many subjects can help prepare you for the future. For example most students think learning math is useless because they aren’t going to use quadratic formulas in their life, but in reality, most teachers don’t teach you the true meaning behind learning math. Some teachers don’t teach that math is going to show a student how to problem solve and that there are going to be obstacles in a student's way and there are going to be steps to solving that problem. Another example would be history, which we learn because history does repeat, and by learning how the past works, hopefully we can prevent it from happening again. At my old school, we only had a test a month or so, or maybe even less. What we had in between those, were projects that we had to critically think; we had to see how these ideas applied to the real life, and we had to think about things bigger than the subjects we were being taught. For instance,

Review the following steps, which outline simple changes you can make and soon you’ll be on your way to becoming the student you’ve always wanted to become.

The kind of student that I have been is the kind of student that does classwork as best as I can, but if I have trouble I usually don’t ask and i don’t do very much homework. A way I have discovered I am successful in studying or homework is putting a note somewhere obvious to remind myself to do it. I also think flashcards are very helpful for studying. A way that I am struggling in homework and studying is that I am lazy so I don’t want to, I am bad with time management, and I procrastinate too much. In order to be more successful in this class I would have to stop using the internet because that is my go to for procrastination. I don’t think that that is realistic to drop completely even though I would like it to be it has taken over a lot

Dr. Facione points out a great point that correlates intelligence with critical thinking, as we need critical thinking to be an intellectual being. Facione shows his credibility through the use of an experiment that had taken place previously, and in this experiment college students GPA are compared to their level of critical thinking, proving that the advanced use of critical thinking directly correlates with a higher GPA; showing Facione was right about his idea of why we should teach critical teaching before collage, as it will improve performance (What And Why 10). Critical thinking should not stop being taught after high school, but should continue to be taught in college, as professors should encourage and promote the use of critical thinking through activity in the classroom, either through discussion, projects that require deep thought, or activities throughout campus that may seem abstract and require an great amount of thought in order to discover the meaning (Facione 11). Facione goes on to discuss a liberal education,

Success starts with education. Working alongside students, partnering with them, through the academic challenge is my passion and my joy. I never grow weary of watching students discover and unleash their potential.

When I think about student success I immediately think of the term a “sense of belonging”. While there are many factors that positively impact students both academically and socially, I believe that having a supportive community serves as a backbone for all overarching areas of a student’s career. Historically the main focus was the extensions of the boundaries of knowledge (p.3 the student personal point of view, 1937).As a first-generation student, from a working class family in rural America, I was significantly influence by the supportive communities provided by student affairs professionals. My academic success and personal development went through a transformation that ended up leading me to the field of student affairs.

Successful students work hard and make the right choices to conquer their goals in life. Throughout my high school and college education, I feel that I have done all the right things except for my MCAT exam. I am writing this section because I want the Committee to see the person I am before making any decisions. I understand that my MCAT exam was not performed to the best of my abilities, so I do not want to be judged from those results. I have always put in my best effort in anything I do. Medicine is my greatest passion and I am positive that I can be successful. Learning all that I can about medicine and putting it into action in a professional setting is the type of student I will be. I will not stop working until I am the best physician

The importance for an individual to be able to think critically has become a hot topic within recent years. Many adults are entering the workforce and are unable to complete aspects of their jobs that require them to think critically. Many are products of an education system that consisted of multiple choice assessments that only required them to recall the information, not to evaluate and synthesize it. Initiatives have been put in place to prevent this lack of critical thinking from affecting school aged children. More recently these initiatives have moved into higher education as well.

Student achievement is a multi-faceted concept and does not look the same for every student. At the core of student achievement are comprehension and connection. Students must be able to understand and contextualize instructional material to foster comprehension. Equal to comprehension is the ability of students to connect with the material and make relevant associations between concepts and skills for application. The intention of instruction based on prioritizing and unwrapping standards helps educators to define the instructional pathway that best supports the standard and facilitates student learning. Learning pathways align essential objectives, activities and resources to outline progress within a standard. Learning pathways detail the skills students need to acquire for demonstrating comprehension and mastery, which constitute achievement.

All people can be good successful students, if they try hard and use self discipline to push them self harder. Being a successful student doesn't mean you are so smart you get to skip grades, it just means that you get good marks, work well with others, and don't get held back any grades. If you are a person who wants to keep your life on track, it takes hard work, determination, and patience.

Scientist have research that about 90% of the people don't achieve their goals because of the challenges encountered. Many of our students here in the city of Anaheim are faced with challenges everyday and sometimes don’t know how to deal with them. My argument is that student success is founded upon giving full effort from students rather than by achieving good grades. In the research story of the secret to raising smart kids by Carol Dweck is a research based paper on the achievements of students.”The mastery oriented children, on the other hand, think intelligence is malleable and can be developed through education and hard work. They want to learn above all else. After all if you believe it that you can expand your intellectual skills, you want to do just that, because slipups stem from a lack of effort, not ability, they can be remedied by more effort”(27).The student intellectual intelligence can grow by studying. They believe that intelligence is malleable. It can be changed or shaped by the hard work and what things we change. If school in Anaheim cared about their education we would be talking about different topics. Since we would be putting so much effort to our changes of habit to better understanding in school we would be satisfied with our results. Many of us would try again and again if it is possible to get a better result. Putting effort can take time but at the end it is worth it. Many of our students believe a challenge changes their intelligence view.

What do think when you hear student success? Many people think different things. For example, student success could be a student having a good job in something they specialized on, and are living on their own without anybody's help. There are several different ways student succeed and ways to change schools in order for their students to succeed as well in this article. For instance, Anaheim High Schools can improve student success if we have longer school days, make the student be interested in school and on what they are learning, and having more after school programs that interest kids and will keep their minds off of bad things.

As a student myself there were many ways that I thought that you can do in order to become successful, but after I did my research on the different ways students can become successful I came to a conclusion that I was wrong and that it takes more work and dedication to become successful and to accomplish the goals that you want. In order for Anaheim High schools to improve on student success the following changes have to take place: In order to increase student success at Anaheim High schools need to spend more time in school, and by motivating students to work hard and not just be smart, schools can increase student success, and in order to increase student success students need to spend more time in extracurricular activities. By doing these things in Anaheim High school, we will have a lot of students become successful, not just in school, but in life as well.