...Making Homework Easier “I don’t understand can you help me with my homework?” As a parent, grandparent, caregiver we’re destined to hear this statement at some point in time. Although those words can be scary there is no running away; the assignment has to be done (Scoon). Following some simple steps will make the process easier for all involved. In order to help a child with homework one needs to create a routine, understand what the child is working on and show support and encouragement based on the child’s understanding of the material. Surroundings matter; if the person helping is distracted then of course the child will also be distracted. Be sure to set a place for homework to be done that will allow for everyone to focus. Try and do the homework at the same time daily repetition creates patterns. This gives the child a routine that they can get used to and comfortable with. To avoid interruptions and frustration make sure all materials needed are on hand before starting. Review the assignment for materials needed. Also check with the child to see what they already have. Get what is missing and then get started on the work. The more prepared the helper is the better results for the child. This is why knowing what the child is working on before they bring it to you is so important. Keeping in touch with the child’s teacher is very important in being prepared. Set a schedule for contacting the teacher to see what the class is working on. Once this is done do research on...
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...My name is Jordan and I am a freshman at Westminster College. I am an out-ofstate student from Idaho and I plan on having a career in Mechanical Engineer. I came to Westminster College to play for the soccer team and well as for the skiing in the area. I live in Hogle Hall and throughout my experiences living in the dorms I have observed many different things that I have written about. My observations are about the general dorm life, students study habits, setup of college, and roommate relationships at Westminster College. I will discuss these topics in the same order that I observed them, from the first month, to the second month, and then finally to the fourth month, the end of the semester. Dorm Life at Westminster College I have experienced once a month and three days of college. I have observed and analyzed the dorm life at Westminster College and will present my observations that pertain to the overall design of the dorms, the significances of the dorms to students social lives, and the difference in the design of upper classmen to lower classman dorms. The Hogle Hall dormitory is three stories and has a main common room in the middle of every floor. There are dorm rooms all down each side of the hall way and the community restrooms are conveniently located in the first doors down the hall from each of the common rooms, boy’s and girl’s restrooms are on opposite sides of the common room. The doorway, for the only stairwell in the building, is also located in the common...
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...Whenever we have a family conflict, I can’t focus in my studies. | | | | 2. Whenever my parents argue, I can’t study well. | | | | 3. Whenever my other siblings and I have misunderstandings, I get destructed in my studies. | | | | 4. When we have a monetary hardship, I feel like I don’t want to study anymore. | | | | 5. Whenever my little brother wants to play with me, I can’t do my homework. | | | | 6. Whenever my other siblings ask me to do household chores, I don’t have enough time to study my lesson. | | | | 7. When my little brother asked me to tutor him/her, I can’t review my previous lesson. | | | | 8. Whenever my parents go out and leave my other siblings with me, I study for my quiz. | | | | 9. Whenever my sister asked me to go with her, I can’t finish my homework. | | | | 10. Whenever my father and I had misunderstandings, I can’t focus well on my studies. | | | | 11. When one of my grandparents had a sick, I can’t concentrate in my studies. | | | | 12. Whenever my parents had a loud conversation, I can’t review my lesson. | | | | 13. When my parents decide to separate, I feel like that I don’t want to continue my study. | | | | 14. Whenever my little sister asked me to do her research, I can’t do my own homework. | | | | 15. When my father got mad with me, I can’t focus to study my lesson. | | | | 16. When my other siblings had a quarrel, I can’t concentrate...
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...Transnational Education Questions Good afternoon Doctor Morales, I have enclosed several questions for the transnational study, I apologize for neglected the project but I lost most of my interviewees and I was attempting to gather more prior to the start of the semester. Additionally, I have added some of the themes I would like to analyze and the questions for the study. I am having problems with constructing sound and inclusive questions. I have a few questions that I would like to discuss with you tomorrow Friday, 09/30 any time you have available or Tuesday 10/4 anytime you have available. Some of the themes I would like to analyze in the study are: a) How the student used the time for school assignments, studying and testing preparation?...
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... when there wasn’t technology and the act of getting orders so quickly, people could pay attention on one activity for a long time. For example, my dad can pay attention on his work way better when he’s free from all the quick serving of technology. Every day, there are new updates in technology and we are living in a society where if on dilemma occurs in one part of the world, the opposite side of the Earth will also get to know in less than a minute. These days, Koreans expect everything faster, like they want their delivery in less than two days and they get so frustrated if the WiFi doesn’t work or is slow. That’s why Korea have the fastest and best WiFi in the World. Consequently, people these days have a hard time focusing on a task. The attention span of people are getting shorter because of the new world’s technology and others causes. Moreover, there are a lot of negative effects to the shortening attention span of people in the society of 2014. Multitasking is called a skill, but it can damage your attention span and your ability to put effort into a task. People multitasking by reading and texting at the same time, or any other combination possible. For example they could be texting, reading, and writing an essay. I have been texting and reading at the same time and it’s not really comfortable. I tended to forget what the story was about and my hands just automatically turned the pages. A lot of people multitask these days because they think that it will make them finish a task earlier...
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...I was busy. Busy enough to always keep myself away from my homework, busy checking my Facebook status, poking my friends, writing comments trying to embarrass Kevin, a friend of mine, and playing Warcraft. “I’m just taking a break.” I said to myself, as though I don’t know I’m lying to myself, or I actually did a bit of work. “New message from Felix!” a message pops out on my Facebook page. Felix: “Warcraft?” Me: “Heck yeah!” I turned away from my English homework which I’ve been staring at for the past five minutes, and got myself lost in the world of dota (Defense of the Ancient). I knew all along that I was procrastinating. I steer myself into anything else rather than homework, and after hours of dipping myself into games, I’ll eventually totally forget about what I was supposed to do. I perfectly know that if this essay was not due tomorrow, I wouldn’t be writing it right now. As my mind is still here, I wonder how poor homework completion due to procrastination can take its toll on me. The first thing my laziness hits directly is my grade. I got a big fat B for my English, or it might get even worse than B, which is not what I expected -or what I wanted. I have the embarrassment among my family that I haven’t been delivering the great things they expected from me. And all through my life, I will only have one set of family and one set of parents. How can I go back and try my life again? How can I do a “do over”? When I was a boy, we played games in...
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...that is lost to make a three day weekend. The four day school week will mess up many things with a regular school day, some of these will be longer classes, sports at a later time, makes less time for kids to do their homework, and go longer into the summer.. The longer classes are to make up the day that was lost for the three day weekend. They could have an earlier start time to make it to where the school would still end at three o'clock. Secondly with the longer classes will make sports go later on into each evening. This gives less time for kids to do their homework or any chores that they have to do at the end of the day and after school. Kids will have to go more weeks in the school year because it is required for all students to go 180 days for a school year. This will cut into families summer plans. When 2,700 schools were polled 67% said that it was...
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...I find my most common “masks” I wear hide my exhaustion and worry. With my grades never naturally where I want them to be I am in a constant state of worry about the next upcoming assignment in whichever class I happen to not have an A in. Grades are a constant worry of any dedicated teenager. Also, this constant worry is exhausting as is any lost sleep on certain nights when several teachers assign large homework assignments on the same day, and this homework takes higher precedence than the much needed sleeping that could’ve happened. I do not believe I am living the idea, “trust thyself” because I force myself to do many things I would not do if I felt I had the choice. This most directly is referenced in maintaining my grades. if I trusted myself to do well, I wouldn’t study and when I do follow that ideal I do worse on my tests than the ones I study for. Of course, this is nothing compared to the stories of pain from post-slave workers that Paul Laurence heard from those in his...
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...Lexi Alaga 5/2/14 Academic Misconduct Throughout school you were taught to never cheat. As a kid growing up we learned that mean to keep your eyes on your own paper, don’t copy other peoples math homework, and to use your own words and create your own sentences. As a kid this was easy, we had no pressure to be the best we were able to struggle and have our parents teach us or fail and it would be okay because our grade point average did not matter. As we grow up we learn through this method of learning from our weakness, fails, and creativity that we all can create our own work and put our name on it. Cheating and plagiarism became scary in high school but became our worst nightmare in college if one choice to partake in it and got caught. I was always proud of my work, especially when you spend hours and hours working on something and when you are finally finished you look back and it was worth that amount of time you spent on it. Cheating is not worth it; you’re not only going against the rules of academic misconduct you are cheating yourself. You’re not allowing yourself to actually learn something you are taking the easy way out and misleading not only yourself but those around you. Cheating goes into a lot of aspect in life, academics, love, sports, etc. The most interesting thing is it always comes down to one tiny aspect of yourself, your scared of letting someone down, you want to win so bad, your lazy and don’t want to try, but it all comes down to the amount you...
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...mailto:rpuelz@mail.cox.smu.edu OFFICE HOURS: 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m., Monday and Wednesday; and by appointment. HELP LABS: see “Lab and T.A.s schedule on our Blackboard site REQUIRED TEXTS: Ross, Westerfield and Jordan (RWJ), Fundamentals of Corporate Finance (Alternate Edition), 10/e , Note: Custom book based on RWJ edition 10/e available at SMU Bookstore only Malkiel, Burton G. (Malkiel), A Random Walk Down Wall Street, 2011, Norton Publishers. RECOMMENDED READING: Wall Street Journal and the business section of the Dallas Morning News. OTHER RESOURCES: The use of a business function or financial calculator is required. The Hewlett-Packard 10-B II and Texas Instruments BA II Plus are popular choices. The HP-12C is my personal choice mostly because it has stood the test of time. Beyond your operating manual, we will support each of these calculators if you have questions. CLASS ATTENDANCE AND WEBSITE: One of the best things about teaching and learning is the interaction between us. That can only be accomplished when you attend. I expect you to attend class and use a name tent. Also important to our class is our website. You’ll need your SMU i.d. for both your username and initial password. If you have used Blackboard before your username is your student i.d.; your password is something known to you. Today: Go to courses.smu.edu and log on! Because class notes, etc., are so important to effective learning, if you do not access the class...
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...themselves. Like most teenagers, my lack of organization skills hinders me from achieving my fullest potential. My room, for example, looks as if the mall threw up on the floors after eating some bad tacos from a dingy food truck. Dust collects on the shelves of my bookcase in the far right corner where I have neither the time nor the energy to reach. Entrance requires a HAZMAT suit to protect anyone who enters from the toxic scent of Brittany Spears perfume. The labyrinth of black and white socks that covers the floor rivals any corn maze in town. The transition from home to school is no better. After walking into the smelly locker bays, I lean over to turn the...
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...brushing your teeth , and going to school. Why does school start early? In my opinion school would be about 5 times better if it started at a later time . School is not bad as it sounds . It's just the fact that students have to get up early makes going to school more depressing than what it already is . Making school start later will all kids to get more sleep , students wouldn't have to rush at night when doing their work . If they work or attend after school activities it's could possibly be more safer and more convenient for the parents that's has a busy work schedule....
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...opportunities. As Rodriguez becomes older, he starts to go to school and with this, starts to drift away from his family values and culture. In turn, it starts to create a separation between his education and his family. Many people have to make difficult decisions in order to achieve their desire or dream. For Rodriguez, the idea of fitting in is creating this separation and making his education his priority. Education was the focus of his entire life. He could not feel comfortable at home because he realized there was an educational division between him and his family since he was in elementary school. He was proud that he lost his Spanish accent, and he even corrected the “simple” grammatical mistakes of his parents as a second grade student. (Rodriguez 1) Not only that, he was oddly annoyed when he was unable to get parental help with a homework assignment. When he reached grade three, the separation between him and his family became more obvious. His ever-increasing intensity to his studies became a joke to his families, which Francisco 2 lead to the reason of why he must physically separate himself from his family. His father once found him reading a novel in a closet hiding. His mom even became worried and asked “What do you see in your books?” (Rodriguez 11) In Rodriguez’s vision, he sees his home and the classroom as two different worlds. At home, it was too noisy for him to study, and things were centered in the living room. At school, the discussion time...
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...order to do that, I would need to complete schooling and get some sort of degree. When deciding the path I wanted to take, Rasmussen was one of my options. The thing that I liked most about Rasmussen was the flexibility of their online courses. Most people who took them still worked full time jobs and some even had families of their own to take care of. I knew that since I still needed to work full time in order to make student loan payments, that Rasmussen was my best bet. I signed up for courses, and began to look at the accelerated schedules. The reason that I chose this path was because I knew that I could handle a big workload and could take on up to six courses per quarter. The graduation date was also much sooner than if I were to take the regular scheduled courses. I knew there would be late nights, busy weeks, and a hectic finals week, but I also knew that I could handle it. Some of the specific opportunity costs that I have faced since starting my school career are less ‘free’ nights. I try to spread my schoolwork out evenly, so I don’t get too overwhelmed when it comes closer to my assignment due dates. There have been nights where I have had to choose school over going out with friends or watching a TV show. Personally, I don’t think that I’ve lost out on a whole lot. I was raised with a drive to get things done and my parents always placed a lot of emphasis on getting schoolwork done before anything else, so that came as second nature to me. I think that when...
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...Java Class MIS 304 is not a class for everyone. Not just any student should take the class. This class is structured to assist students in learning how to program using the Java language. This class does not make a student an expert in the language of Java, but instead gives the student the basic fundamentals needed to have practical use of the language and gives them a solid foundation upon which they can build if they choose to do so. The material covered in the class is adequate. Java can be a complex language to learn, but in MIS 304 one is taught the basics and nothing too detailed or complicated. The resources that are given to the students are very good. I know that the Java book used for the class is one of the best reference materials on Java that is on the market today. The lab facilities and proctors are also great resources. The only problem I feel that exists is that students don’t take advantage of the resources they have available. Students hardly look through their book for answering questions they might have. Also students hardly even bring their books to the lab when doing programs. They sometimes look for proctors to fix their problems instead of fixing it themselves. I think it should be emphasized to students that the proctors are not their to do the programs for them, but to rather help them figure out what is going wrong in their programs. Also it should be emphasized that the book should be with them when working on programs so that if questions or...
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