The Importance Of Student Success

The National Rankings of education, rank schools based on their performance on state-required tests and how well they prepare students for college. Anaheim High School is an unranked school, in order to increase student success at Anaheim High School they should reinforce protocols like SSLANT. Gladwell’s article briefly, states what SSLANT is. KIPP Academy from The Bronx in New York uses SSLANT. Students are to walk quietly down the hallways in a single file. In classrooms, they are ready to collaborate in a protocol known as “SSLANT: smile, sit up, listen, ask questions, nod when being spoken to and, track with your eyes.” There is no time for socialization and getting unfocused when using SSLANT. Most public schools near ghettos and bad neighborhoods have a student enrolled that makes educators driven to hopelessness, KIPP Academy has been stereotyped like that, except that once

The changes that AHS should make to increase their student success is to make their summers shorter and making more school days. In the story, Gladwell talks about this point and states, “but take a look at the following sets of elementary school test scores results, and see if your faith in the value of long summer holidays isn't profoundly shaken.” (6) It's based off how much time you spend in school and how much effort you want to give. Another big thing is the teachers need to motivate the students more and push them to want them to come to school more often. “Alexander tracked the progress of 650 first graders looking how they scored widely in math and reading skills.”(6) Students with talent are worshiped in their society effort is everything.

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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.

Authors Jessica Downs, Jean Phinney, and Lizette Ivy Chuateco, are interested in predicting academic success in at-risk students, specifically minority students. In study the authors carry out their study using an ecological theory. The ecological theory studies the student’s characteristics and their environment. The authors believe in three overarching variable s have to do with a student’s outcome; those variable are background, personal motivations, and environmental support. Consequently authors completed this study to examine motivational characteristics and environmental social supports make important contributions to a student’s outcome.

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.

Although, there are innumerable resources for freshmen academic success, many do not have the motivation to excel in school. According to Education Corner, “The vast majority of successful students achieve their success by developing and applying effective study habits… So if you want to become a successful student, don't get discouraged, don't give up, just work to develop each of the study habits... And you'll see your grades go up, your knowledge increase, and your ability to learn improve” ("10 Habits of Highly Effective Students"). In other words, when productive study habits were established and the freshmen were motivated, then their grades would rise. A new habit cycle for a high school student needs to start with a plan: the cue would

Every high school student dreams about furthering their educational career once they graduate, but when ever there’s a high there is a low. Some are able to attend college without a care in the world since they are finacially stable, but others like myself have to struggle their way to find money just to be able to pay one class. Although, I havethis huge gap keeping me from reaching my goal of majoring in special eduacation I will not let money control my future, I will do whatever it takes to help my parents pay off the class and this is why I come to you today. It would be a great honor if the Guadalupe & Lilia Martinez Foundation can lend me a hand to help me achieve my life long dream. Growing up in a hispanic household I knew that money

When thinking about the success and accomplishment I have reached throughout my student life, my parents immediately come to mind as they were an extensive influence on the reaching of that success by being a great help in making my student life significantly easier. To do that, they helped me in countless ways, starting with them providing outstanding help with my school work and explaining and assisting me with anything and everything I've had trouble with throughout my school life. Second of all, they always provided me with their full support and encouragement at all times, along with their believing in my ability to be very successful. This played a huge role in encouraging me to do my best, lowering my continuously high stress level,

This article examines the predictive validity of GPA (also referred to as previous academic achievement), standardized tests (the Graduate Australian Medical School referred to as the GAMSAT) and interviews (which aim to reveal nonacademic qualities) of potential medical students to determine which will be successful in medical school. To accomplish this goal, Sladek, Bond, Frost and Prior conducted a retrospective study using four different cohorts of medical students between the years of 2006 and 2009. The study included the collection of a great amount of data for comparison for the 382 students who participated. Data collected included information from the selection process such as GAMSAT scores, weighted GPA from undergraduate studies and scores from the six domains rated during the interview process. Data collected about the students’ performance while in medical

A question that should be constantly asked by a student who is seeking academic success is: What am I doing right now, to make myself better for the future? This question is most important because it forces a person to reevaluate why they have an desire to further their education. This question ultimately becomes the driving question  while pursuing academic success, but throughout our entire life. Living in a society that constantly strives to have more money, education, and any luxury item, it has become second nature for us to strive for the bigger and better things in life. For a collegiate black woman it is important that we fight against the stereotypes of who we are as individuals. We are thought to be uneducated, loud, angry, and a

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be" (Thomas Jefferson). As members of a democracy we have a responsibility to educate ourselves. This is one of the reasons why in the 21st century, such a big emphasis is put on pursuing an education. The main reason is that it is seen by many as the only way to get a middle class job and live out the American dream. Unfortunately, something is not right in the education system. After six years in college, only 53 percent of students are able to graduate (Burke, 1). All students, whether they graduated or not, are ending up with enormous amounts of debt. On top of that, even the students who are graduating are struggling to find jobs and pay back their student loans.

Students in America are having a difficult time completing college. Students are not staying focused on the final goal and are being distracted by outside factors that come and go along the way. Some of these outside factors include; finances, life, social interaction, self-esteem, support systems, stress, preparation, and even the feeling of choosing the wrong career path. Student success is going to stay at a more stable rate if students stay focused on the final goal and learn different ways of balancing the outside factors. Most of the research found for my paper are examples of examining student life, and how to create a mindset that can stay focused on the final goal, which is graduating with a degree. First, financial situations can be strenuous: How am I going to pay for college? Students can apply for many different types of loans, grants, scholarships, and even financial aid, which is government assistance. Second, students are obtaining more advanced knowledge in postsecondary school, but are struggling to apply it to everyday situations. When we use the knowledge that we have learned in our everyday life situations, we feel a more gratifying attitude toward time spent in postsecondary schools. When first attending school many students get caught up in the environment of making friends and getting involved in more social situations; parties, frat/sororities’, sports, clubs, and many other social situations that lead student’s minds away from their

Student success. There are multiple concepts and aspects of student success that play a role in understanding how student success impacts involvement and retention. Komives, Owen, Longerbeam, Mainella, and Osteen (2005) study the

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.