...I have been teaching in public education for the past seventeen years as a highly qualified teacher of Mathematics and Science. I have experience as an Instructional Mathematics Coach, where I provided support in Mathematics to staff and administration. Currently, I serve as Supervisor of Academic Curriculum & Instruction at an Arts High School for Paterson Public Schools. My academic credentials include a M.ED in Administration and Supervision from St. Peter’s College, a M.ED in General Education from Cambridge College, and a B.S. in Biology from Morgan State University. Paterson Public School System is an urban school district which enrolls 25, 000 students. Since working my way up the ranks in the district, I now have a personal goal to become a principal. My coursework at Northcentral University will provide the training for me to be an effective educational leader. When I spoke to current doctoral students and recent graduates, my focus was on what will I need to be successful. They stated developing relationships with your professor, time management, having a quality library and resource availability. With my navigation through NCU’s Doctoral...
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... important leaders and individuals across the globe are looking towards our generation, Generation Y; to pull the world out of these troubled times. The key to our generation’s success in contributing positively to society is education. Education will guide these young individuals to success in monetary values and in contributions to humanity. People of the skilled labor force argue that the pressure of society on the young generation to obtain the highest level of educational achievement is hindering their growth. Many writers of numerous magazines and newspapers across the United States such as Kate Lorenz, a writer for CNN, argues that there has been countless individuals who have achieved success both monetarily and in humanity that had no degree at all. I shall not argue the belief of critics that guts and determination are equally as important as education; however, I intend to raise the awareness that education is the key to achieving success. Knowledge is essential to an individual; it is not only invaluable but it is also irreplaceable and will never hinder an individual in anything that he or she wishes to achieve. The question that arises most often during the discussion about the importance of education in society is: How much education is enough for the individuals of Generation Y to obtain success? At this time in United States, a person needs at least a Bachelor’s degree to be classified as a middle class citizen. College students face the obstacles...
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...Education “Education is a key to success.” It gives us knowledge of the world around us, while opening doors to brilliant career opportunities. Education builds confidence to make decisions, to face life, and to accept successes and failures. The best way to reach career success is to map out a strategy and set goals. Education can be a source that could lead someone for a better future. Having seventeen or eighteen years of waking up early in the morning, doing home works and projects and staying late at night to study for exams is not an easy task to do. But, for you, what is success? For some, success is the accomplishment of the goal aimed by a person. But for me, success means that it is one way of proving to others that I have determination and patience with what I am doing. Also, it is telling to others that I am willing to do everything just to reach my goals. And how come education becomes the key to success? In today’s modern and competitive society, we cannot deny the fact that we must equip ourselves with plenty of knowledge, thoughts or ideas and skills in order for us to enhance God’s given talents for us. Also, through education, we can learn more and improve ourselves in whatever field we do have. Professionals like pharmacists, doctors, engineers and lawyers surely gave importance to their education. With proper training and knowledge, it is possible for them to perform their best in their careers and to be successful in their field of area. The characters and...
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...the numbers are staggering and the reality is sobering. Young Black men — across the board — score below their counterparts in other racial and ethnic groups when it comes to graduation rates, literacy rates and college preparedness. And many African American men, in turn, are virtually locked out of employment and are filling up the nation’s prisons in disproportionate numbers Receiving a good education helps empower you, thus making you strong enough to look after yourself in any given situation. It keeps you aware of your given surrounding as well as the rules and regulations of the society you're living in. It's only through knowledge that you can be able to question authority for its negligence or discrepancies. As a whole, people can bring about development only when they know where improvement is necessary for the greater good of mankind. Education helps you understand yourself better, it helps you realize your potential and qualities as a human being. It helps you to tap into latent talent, so that you may be able to sharpen your skills. Another importance of education is that it helps you gain sufficient academic qualification so that you are able to get suitable employment at a later stage. A decent employment would be combined with hard-earned remuneration or salary through which you can look after your personal expenses. While you earn for yourself, you gradually begin to realize the true worth of money and how hard it is to earn it. You realize the significance...
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...P., Huesman, R., & Kellogg, J. (2010). Redefining Student Success: Applying Different Multinomial Regression Techniques for the Study of Student Graduation Across Institutions of Higher Education, Research in Higher Education, 51(2), 154-174. doi: 10.1007/s11162-009-9149-4 This is a quantitative case study measuring the success of university students’ ability to attain a degree within a specified period since enrollment or transfer to another institution of higher learning. In the study mixed methods were implemented in order attain accurate and reliable results. The sample was obtained from the National Student Clearing house (NSC) and the data focused on 3 cohorts of University of Minnesota- Twin Cities students entering college for the first time. Finding a new definition for academic success in university among first year or transferring students was the key question. The prevailing definition of success was distorted because only the students who completed their studies at initial universities regarded as academically successful. This study focused on broadening the definition of success by including any students who transferred and graduated in another university. The new definition of academic success consisted of students who graduated from the initial university and those who transferred and graduated from other institutions. Factors that helped to broaden the definition of success were analyzed implementing the Binary logit, multinomial logit...
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...reading and studying focusing on print and online materials ISBN 1-256-09222-3 Keys to Effective Learning: Study Skills and Habits for Success, Sixth Edition, by Carol Carter, Joyce Bishop, and Sarah Lyman Kravits. Published by Allyn & Bacon. Copyright © 2011 by Pearson Education, Inc. c h a p t e r 7 hanh never had trouble keeping up with her high school reading assignments, but after four weeks of college she is already snowed under. With midterms coming in two weeks, she stays awake at night thinking about how much she has to learn. It seems as if all the reading she has done this term—particularly what she has read on the computer—has gone in one side of her brain and out the other, so she feels she has to start at the beginning. She has the sense that the way she is reading may be a problem, but it worked for her in the past, so why change now? In this chapter . . . you explore answers to the following questions: HOW can SQ3R help you own what you read? p. 190 WHAT improves reading comprehension? p. 200 HOW do you customize a text with highlighting and notes? p. 205 HOW can you read online materials effectively? p. 208 ISBN 1-256-09222-3 © Shutterstock Keys to Effective Learning: Study Skills and Habits for Success, Sixth Edition, by Carol Carter, Joyce Bishop, and Sarah Lyman Kravits. Published by Allyn & Bacon. Copyright © 2011 by Pearson Education, Inc. Habit for Success ask questions Questions are the backbone of learning. They help you see...
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...Education “Education is a key to success.” It gives us knowledge of the world around us, while opening doors to brilliant career opportunities. Education builds confidence to make decisions, to face life, and to accept successes and failures. The best way to reach career success is to map out a strategy and set goals. Education can be a source that could lead someone for a better future. Having seventeen or eighteen years of waking up early in the morning, doing home works and projects and staying late at night to study for exams is not an easy task to do. But, for you, what is success? For some, success is the accomplishment of the goal aimed by a person. But for me, success means that it is one way of proving to others that I have determination and patience with what I am doing. Also, it is telling to others that I am willing to do everything just to reach my goals. And how come education becomes the key to success? In today’s modern and competitive society, we cannot deny the fact that we must equip ourselves with plenty of knowledge, thoughts or ideas and skills in order for us to enhance God’s given talents for us. Also, through education, we can learn more and improve ourselves in whatever field we do have. Professionals like pharmacists, doctors, engineers and lawyers surely gave importance to their education. With proper training and knowledge, it is possible for them to perform their best in their careers and to be successful in their field of area. The characters...
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...2016 Education is Not Only about Curriculum and Passing Exams Success is a personal story; so an old expression says, one’s success cannot be solely measured by other people’s success. In that case, it ceases to be success and becomes competition. This notion is extended in the education system and has adversely affected the mentality of students. How can education be more equitable for our students and our society? Students are one of those groups affected with the misguided theory that success is competition. Parents, guardians, and teachers are responsible for the further enhancements of this theory. It is true that the best student can only be selected by order of merit; and for every winner there is a loser. It is a fact that cannot be objected. However, what I dispute is notion that success is purely dependent on the classroom performance. Student success isn’t based off what they are being taught for their own gain of knowledge, but rather than just being taught to pass the exams and uphold good grades. Education can be more equitable to all students by realizing and accepting the fact that each student is different than another, understanding ones interest and talents, being more inclusive to students with all learning types and background, and by eliminating the letter grade system. Education may be the surest and easiest key to success but definitely not the only one. Moreover, with changing times, nothing is assured anymore. You can attain higher education and still...
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...Key Success Factors and Common Pitfalls for Health Care Businesses Overview Previous sections of this guide provide investors with tools for analyzing health-sector investment opportunities. This section deepens investor’s knowledge of the sector by presenting key elements of different types of health care businesses, including hospitals, clinics, laboratory and diagnostic facilities, pharmaceutical retailers and distributors, and medical education and training institutes. Each is characterized by distinct factors to consider when appraising credit and investment worthiness. A discussion follows of success factors and common mistakes that investors see in financing requests from each of these types of businesses. The box on this page describes one banker’s experience with health-sector borrowers in Uganda. Hospitals Key Elements for Analysis: Typically private hospitals earn revenue from inpatient and outpatient services, surgical procedures, diagnostic testing (laboratory and radiology), and drug sales. The number of beds defines the inpatient capacity, and bed occupancy rate and average length of stay are key metrics for determining inpatient numbers (a key revenue driver). Similarly, outpatient numbers and consultation fees drive outpatient revenue. Key profit centers are usually surgical procedures, diagnostic tests, and drug sales, rather than room rates and consultation fees. Because of the equipment and facility requirements, hospitals are generally much more capital...
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...PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY Personal Responsibility Personal responsibility is the main key component for a student to success in college. Everyone has difference personal responsibility of becoming a successful student in education. As a college student, it is his responsibility to acquire self-knowledge, improve personal quality, and maintain good attitude. It is also important to have the commitment and motivation to finish college. Another key to responsibility is time management because a person has to make a schedule that includes schoolwork and his personal life. Personal responsibility is self-knowledge, personal quality, and attitude because the relationship between personal responsibility and college success will be the commitment and motivation that also lead to preliminary plan to practice personal responsibility on time management in education. The definition of personal responsibility divided into many important versions. Everyone has his own version of what personal responsibility means to him. Even if there are different versions of the definition, there are still key components that must cover, which includes self-knowledge, personal quality, and attitude. Vogt and Colvin (2005) noted, “Self-knowledge is defined as knowledge of one’s personality traits as they are exhibited in behavior” (p. 240). Self-knowledge also means acquiring the ability and taking the initiative...
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...James Marie Professor Baker English 101 28 February 2012 Knowledge is Power, Power is Success. How successful are you? When looking for a job in today’s world it is known that companies aren’t concerned with whether someone couldn’t attend college because they couldn’t pay for it. They only care about whether a degree is held or not. This is why being part of the lower class has been so difficult for students wanting to continue their education. Preparing for a successful future begins with a quality education. For many students, however, the quality of the available education is dependent on their financial circumstances. In order to ensure that all American citizens are as successful as they can be, access to quality education must be based on effort and commitment, not an individual’s ability to pay for it. Today most people would agree that education is the key to success. It is almost impossible to have a successful career without having an advanced education from a superior school. Businesses and companies depend consequently on what school someone graduated from and what degree they have, that it creates an unfair bias and almost makes it impossible for someone to compete for a job when they could not afford the same education. In today’s economy it is more challenging to acquire a successful career. Businesses have become further meticulous in their hiring processes and are not speculating towards undergraduates to employ. Businesses are looking for applicants...
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...learning is the basis in relation of students and teachers in a classroom. However, with the emergence of online education, virtual classrooms are replacing the long-established classroom setting. Although online learning has many advantages for some students, it can also lead to some difficult challenges. In order for online education to be successful, it is crucial that those challenges are identified and efficiently dealt with. Organizational skills, time management, and effective communication are key elements for a successful online education. Having organizational skills is one of the important keys for online education success. I will use the organizational skills I have learned in my professional career to arrange my work into time intervals that will allow me to complete certain parts that need to be completed at a given time. By using the strategy, the amount of time that I usually waste will decrease. Organizational skills are not limited to time and work; it extends beyond materials and workspace. Working with my newfound organizational skills will also make my work and everyday routine more precise and deliberate; I will be a lot more conscious and sure of what I will be doing later. By having, a schedule I will be more prepared and lessen the tension, and in turn, my daily function will be more efficient. Another key for online education success is effective time management. No matter how one approaches time management, there will always be some limitations...
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...Critical Thinking for Success Shelly Butler GEN/200 March 30, 2015 Russell Prechtl Critical Thinking in Education and Daily Life Critical thinking is a process that is used every day, but without acknowledgement. We utilize all the steps in the critical thinking process when we do the jobs required of us, handle daily situations, or even when we attend school. All of us utilize the key steps in critical thinking in different ways. Emotion is a trigger that prevents us from making some rational decisions. In a group setting accomplished tasks are in a productive way, we have situations that cause difficulties in communication. If we all were more aware of utilizing the critical thinking process more efficiently, we would see more cases that had a different outcome. The Process of Thinking As a child, we are taught to learn from our parents what is right from wrong. Some parents give logical reasoning when preparing to educate the child better. A child is more likely to understand when given the reasons. When we reach the educational system, teachers, or professors, give us grounds for the lessons we are learning. We process all of this information by asking questions and analyzing the given information accurately. Upon entering the workforce, we have been prepared to utilize the critical thinking process to assist in accomplishing the tasks required. All of these steps taught aid in becoming successful academically and in your career. Researching critical thinking...
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...relationship between personal responsibility and college success. Include a preliminary plan to practice personal responsibility in your education. This week, using the Center for Writing Excellence resources, provide the thesis statement and informal outline for your Personal Responsibility Essay assignment, due in Week Five. Notes: Define Personal Responsibility: It takes self discipline and the willingness to accept full responsibility for everything you do. Having willpower and discipline to get done the tasks at hand, regardless of the struggle. It starts with personal responsibility in order to be successful. Relationship between Personal Responsibility and College Success: It takes a great work ethic and motivation to achieve college success. With the lack of personal responsibility college success is not possible. It takes willpower and willingness to be successful in school work. My plan to use Personal Responsibility to be successful in my education: I will show motivation in everything I do, and keep my work ethic to the highest standard. Beginning assignments as soon as they are given, never letting myself procastinate, and taking pride in the work that I provide are three example of how I plan to succeed. Thesis Statement: Even though Some successfull people dont have personal responsibility, personal responsibility and having a plan of your own to help you succeed is key for acheiving college success and it takes a quality work ethic and self motivation...
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...An issue that continues to arise is related to low levels of education and skills prior to and upon release from prison. “Ninety-five percent of American prisoners will eventually be released back into society and will either continue their past criminal behaviors or adopt new, socially acceptable lifestyles. (Scott 148) Gaining an education has been associated as a major factor in tackling the social and psychological needs of prisoners. One of the main objectives is to change the inmates’ attitudes regarding work and responsibility; and also prepare inmates for the competitive job market they will face upon release. In the end, with education programs we should be able to reduce the recidivism rate. 2. Key Issue Discussion In general education, specifically college education, is required in today’s labor market....
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