...goal, I will finish my degree in Business Administration within the next three to four years by taking one course at a time. Each course I complete will get me three credits closer to achieving my degree. This is how I will achieve my personal goal according to the SMART goal process. The next goal I will describe will be my professional goal. My professional goal will be to obtain a career that allows me to be happy and successful after I retire from the military. By using the SMART goal process, I will narrow my job search to careers that will make me happy and still provide the necessary income. After I completing 12 more years in the military, I will find a career that suits my wants and needs. This goal will be attainable by finishing school and retiring from the military. Lastly my academic goal will be complete my bachelor’s degree. I will do this by taking one course at a time over the next three to four years. By completing assignments and scoring well on quizzes and test, this goal will be achievable. Accountability and...
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...The Winding Road to Success HCS/504 01,23,2012 Dr. Tracy Lane The Winding Road to Success The winding road to success is a road that leads to personal and professional growth. This road is not a road without challenges or obstacles. Her professional goal of becoming a health care organization’s administrator or chief executive officer is dependent on successful completion of her graduate degree in Master’s of Health Administration. Her dreams of completing a master’s degree and subsequently earning a doctoral degree have been her personal goals for many years. Achieving both her personal and professional goals would amplify her professional career. Pursuing her graduate degree has been a personal goal of hers dating back to her adolescent years. She is a strong advocate for continuing education and firm believer that education is the key to success. Openjuru (2011) stated “lifelong learning and lifelong education are two concepts that aim at widening access to and the participation of adult learners in the acquisition of new knowledge, skills, values and attitudes” (p. 55). She chose to pursue her graduate degree to improve her job skills and performance, advance her career, increase her financial earnings, and to influence her family’s desire to achieve more. According to a study conducted by Schlechter and Milevsky (2010) “parents with higher levels of education are effecting their children’s...
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...My Success Strategy Plan Jennifer Hellams Colorado Technical University Online UNIV101 June 19, 2011 Success Strategy Plan Step 1: Student Success Strategies For this step of your plan you will reflect on Student Success Strategies that you have learned in this course that will help you be a successful student. Please do this by answering the questions that follow. (You may want to review the answers that you submitted from the Phase 2 Discussion Board. You will want to also review your instructor’s feedback and integrate changes as necessary.) 1. What three success strategies (from the Student Success Strategies Guide) will you plan on using throughout your degree program to help you be a successful student? The 3 strategies that I have chosen to adopt are making a “to-do list”, breaking larger projects down into more manageable chunks and balancing work and school. 2. Why will these strategies be most beneficial to you? MS can challenge your cognitive abilities and mess with your short-term memory. The longer I manger this disease the more I see this symptom. With that being said, making lists of what I need to get accomplish will be a great help. I see this as an on-going living list that will change often. I see this being an electronic list so priorities can be rearranged and updated easier. Breaking tasks into more manageable chunks I think will be essential to my success. I sometimes get so wrapped up in the over size of a project and get overwhelmed...
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...Strategies for Personal Success Yamicka Cassell University of Phoenix Abstract Deciding to return to school later in life is a huge decision. As a mature adult you weigh your pros and cons and try to make the decision that will positively affect everyone involved. There are certain roads that you travel when try to strategically plan your personal success. At first you may ask yourself many questions to get to your final answer. Is this the right decision for me and my family? Can I afford to go back to school? How will it affect my work schedule? After pondering this decision I researched and learned that 48% of college students are classified as adult learners. Of that 48 percent, half are women, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education and the Department of Education's Projections of Education Statistics Toward 2004. (Alverson,2009) The status of the economy in America further pushed my decision to return to school and make myself more marketable to future and current employers. As she looked back on her life and pondered if she was going to take that huge step and return to graduate school she weighed her pros and cons. Making a life altering decision such as returning to school and working a fulltime job is a huge decision. For many, going back to school is to pursue a lifelong dream or to further an education that was never completed. There are several obstacles and challenges that will be encountered financial, personal and emotional...
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...My Success Strategy Plan Stonnie Bell Colorado Technical University Online UNIV101 09/08/10 Success Strategy Plan Step 1: Student Success Strategies The Three strategies that I am using from the success strategies guide are to stay motivated, choose a great study environment, and to do the hardest or my least favorite task first. The reason that I chose these three strategies are that staying motivated is key, without motivation you will not have the drive or the desire to accomplish a task and keeping my eyes on the prize is all the motivation that I need. Choosing a great study environment is key for me because this will limit my distractions and sitting in my favorite chair is very important because it makes me feel comfortable and when I feel good I tend to have a positive outlook on doing my work. And lastly I chose to do the hardest assignment first because it usually requires the most attention and when I get to easier assignments I will find them even easier and will feel good while doing them because I will not have to stress over doing a harder assignment next. Out of these three the most beneficial to me is staying motivated because like I said before without the motivation to do a task it will more than likely not get done and if it is completed it will not be up to the standard set by the instructor. I have changed my routine greatly since beginning school, for instance I don’t go home and play video games or watch television like before. I have...
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...resources will you use to strengthen your writing and reading skills (refer to your Student Life Worksheet)? The Center for Writing Excellence provides a convenient online resource. The center for writing excellence help with everything from brushing up on grammar basics to putting the finishing touches on a paper. What is your personal learning style (refer to the Ch. 1 Aplia homework)? I consider my personal learning style in Mode 4. I like to influence and lead others. I`m consider myself as entrepreneur, risk taker and leader. I really enjoy take action and complete projects. At my job I drive all business development and Sales Consultant experience. What are two obstacles you might need to overcome (refer to your Life Factors and personality assessments)? After taking the Life Factors assessment the two obstacles that I might need to overcome are...
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...Success Answer each question below in at least 75 words per question, reflecting on your current abilities, and identify resources to strengthen your skills. Refer to the videos, readings, and other weekly assignments to help you compose your answers. |Question |Your reflection | |How would you define academic |I would describe academic readiness as all of the the steps it takes to be ready for your | |readiness? |academic classes. Success requires smart goals this means you can't get to where you want to be| | |unless you know where you are going. Time management is also a step that you need for academic | | |readiness. Managing your time and setting a goal for how long it needs to take to reach your | | |goal. Last but not least putting fourth the effort to make it happen. It might get hard | | |sometimes but you got to keep working towards your goal. | |What concerns, if any, do you have |I really don't have a problem with academic reading or writing , because I need the writing | |with academic writing and reading? |skills to help me learn the the right techniques that I will have to use to move forward...
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...College is pretty tough and may very well seem impossible at times. It is a lot to take in and not everybody has the correct work ethic and strategies to handle the hard work necessary to handle all of the work and achieve a degree. Having a strategy is essential to a student’s overall success in college. Without having the right strategies in place, the workload a student receives in college will be overwhelming. There are many different strategies a student can use to overcome the stresses of college. Two of the most important strategies are self-management and self-motivation. Self-management is an absolute must for students. Without it, they will never get all of their necessary work done. Time becomes very valuable and students can’t afford to waste a second of it. This could be the greatest asset of all as it will be the most beneficial to students in school and even furthermore in their career. In “Self-Assessment.”, Skip Downing gives a survey in which he tests out 8 different traits, including self-management, in students and grades them accordingly. Downing defines good self-management as “consistently planning and taking purposeful actions in pursuit of their goals and dreams.” As a college student I try my best to improve my self-managing every day. I have made it a habit to plan out my time as much as possible. Although it may seem impossible at times to find motivation to continue, finding the motivation is vital to the success of a student. Self-motivation is...
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...planning means getting organized mentally and prioritizing. Having a planner or calendar to keep deadlines, commitments, assignments will assist me in focusing on the best ways I can succeed in college. Managing time with family, work, and school plays a key role in succeeding. Although it is one of the key roles to my success, I also feel like this will be one of my biggest obstacles as well. As a single mother or 3 children, working a fulltime job and managing my home I have high stress levels with trying to make ends meet and maintaining everything on my own. After working a full day at work and dealing with stressors there I have to come home to children that demand all of my attention its difficult to even imagine having to study and do homework on top of everything else. But in order to obtain my degree I realize that I have to be committed to school and to myself to make time and put forth the extra effort. I realize that I have made a personal decision to go back to school and get the degree I have always wanted and its up to me and only my to make it happen. Some people think they are too smart or so intelligent that they don’t need to take personal responsibility to succeed and that their degree is just going to get handed to them with out any efforts because that is what has always been the case for them, but I know I need to make changes and stick to them to get what I want. I also know you can really only get out of something what you put into it...
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...Life and School: Making it work Education is crucial in today’s world, and most times there is a need to choose to either work full time or go to school full time. In most cases, choosing one or the other is not an option. Finding the time to balance college classes with all of the activities in your daily life is what most people who are considering going back to school find most difficult and discouraging. However, with the right strategy balancing life and school can be manageable. We live in an age where women play a crucial role in the job market and in the home setting. This is no exception for me. Prior to school, my work and home life consisted of being a mother to my dogs, a wife to my partner, a leader and manager at my job, a socialite to my friends, a dedicated family member, a maid and a cook! Trying to factor in college classes seemed frightening at first! It has been ten years since I have attended any kind of educational classes; however, seeing that I regretted not attending college directly after high school, I made the decision that going back to school would open up many career opportunities for me. Deciding that I wanted to go back to school to expand my knowledge and career opportunities was the biggest decision that I have ever made thus far. Since I do not have the luxury to always have a set schedule to where I can attend traditional college classes in a classroom, I made the big decision to do distance learning as opposed to traditional...
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...Returning to college is a big step for adult learners. There are so many obstacles that impair the adult learners. There are family, full time employment and other related activities. There are a lot of time and effort put into the adult learner’s decision to return to school. Even the most brilliant students will find it difficult to return to school due to the lack of self confidence in the ability to comprehend the learning styles of the teacher. Many times the teaching style is new or different to the adult learners because so much time has passed since they were in the classroom. Adult learners learn best by self-directing with their own learning techniques (Clapper, 2010). The adult learners have many life experiences that can be applied in the classroom. Most often the adult learner learns best by hand on situations, by life experiences, current and former employment. Educators find it difficult to teach some adult learners because they have their own way of wanting to be taught. When learning in the health care profession, educators are constantly looking for ways to help the adult learner grasp the coursework. The adult learners have acquired talents in their former employments. The adult learners are sure of the health care profession when they choose to go back to school. Educators have developed Simulation Centers to help the adult learners appreciate going back to school (Knowles, 1984) Educators realize that the adult learners learn in...
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...Writing academic papers or just your normal day to day school work can be very intimidating at times. As long as I have the determination and the drive to succeed, conquering these obstacles will be a relatively easy task. Unlike traditional college where you go in and sit in a class and have months before you finish, online schooling is much more demanding. It requires that you have the motivation to complete your work on time and learn the material that is presented in front of you. A lot of knowledge can be carried on from one’s high school experience but like many people, polishing up those skills you learned years back is much needed. What I hope to accomplish with my survival guide is to develop much needed strategies that will help me in my studies in college. Conducting research for academic papers or even discussion questions is not just an option but a requirement. There are many ways to conduct research and with all these sources at your fingertips. Because of the many sources the task can seem overwhelming at times. One powerful tool at everyone’s disposal is the internet. This is a very valuable tool because there is a wealth of information available. Be warned because not all the information on the internet is creditable. A good way to get accurate information is to cross reference several sites and exempt information that is not correct. Another way to conduct research is through the University Library. Much like a search engine on the internet, the University...
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...STAYING ON COURSE Kendra Harvey Pre 100 sect. 7116 October 12, 2013 Kendra Harvey Pre 100 Sect. 7116 12 October 2013 STAYING ON COURSE Enrolling in college at 26 years old was very intimidating to me. Although I graduated from high school, I have a real problem with self confidence. Keeping up with my classmates from high school on social media sites, I became discouraged and depressed from seeing how successful some of them had become. I often wondered why I haven’t become successful. Why was I made to be a failure? Then it dawned on me that I, myself was my own problem. At different points in my life I’ve often given up when I was faced with a challenge. I always took interest in the healthcare field, and I pursued and completed a certification in nursing. When certain circumstances caused for me to have to go back to school to recertify, instead of pressing on I choose defeat. My greatest obstacles now are my children, for I don’t have a strong support system and because of this I have allowed myself to be defeated by other obstacles in life. When I got into college, my biggest challenge was staying focused and motivated. I continued to stay out late, I would put off assignments until the last minute, I did cram study sessions, I was lazy all the time and couldn’t concentrate, and I missed classes and fell behind on home assignments. This caused a major problem for me like receiving failing grades. I blamed everything and...
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...other weekly assignments to help you compose your answers. |Question |Your reflection | |How would you define academic |If you looked it up in a dictionary there is no common definition for academic readiness. I would| |readiness? |define it as a guess, placed on quality and abundance of knowledge, to see if a person is ready | | |to handle demands of an educational environment. | |What concerns, if any, do you have |My main concern and what puts me in a nervous state is the fact that I’ve been away from school | |with academic writing and reading? |for over nine years. | |What two university resources will you|In these two areas I would benefit more from student workshops and the center for writing | |use to strengthen your writing and |excellence. The center for writing excellence will improve my writing skills, it will help me | |reading skills (refer to your Student |with my essays as well. The student workshops in writing as well as plenty other areas. | |Resources Worksheet)? | | |What is your personal learning style |After...
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...improve their academic functioning. This group would be important for children with ADHD because those with ADHD have significant impairment in multiple domains of functioning. “The most problematic is academic impairments because children with ADHD will most likely be retained, placed in special education, and drop out of school than their peers. They often will forget to complete assignments, complete assignments but forget to turn in the assignment, and make careless mistakes in their work” (Langberg, Epstein, Urbanowicz, Simon, & Graham, 2008, p. 401). Also, children with ADHD will display off tasks, impulsive, and disruptive behaviors in the classroom (Langberg, Epstein, Urbanowicz, Simon, & Graham, 2008). Also, Raggi and Chronis (2006) state that academic difficulties for children with ADHD include failure to complete homework, poor comprehension of material, poor study skills, low test and quiz grades, poor preparation for class, disruptive behavior, peer conflict, and conflict with teachers. If ADHD is left untreated then this can seriously interfere with a child’s social interactions with peers and teachers, academic achievement, and overall school experience (Leslie, Lambros, Aarons, Haine, Hough, 2008). Deficits in organizational skills may contribute to these academic impairments, as children with ADHD frequently loose assignments, misplace their completed work, and have difficulty planning for tests (Langberg, Epstein, Urbanowicz, Simon, & Graham, 2008). Also...
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