...A Successful College Student Successful means accomplishing or achieving an aim or a goal, a purpose. A College is an educational institution which can gain knowledge by students. Student can further their education at college after graduated from high school or secondary school. Student is the one who is studying at a school or a college, and student can also defined as a learner. College student can take any courses that they are interested in a college or university. Students who choose to further their study in college is the most important steps to being success, and successful college student is start from choosing the correct subject, which is the student wanted or interested in the subject. But a lot of the students are studying the subject that their parents want them to study, but not the subject that they want. Choose the correct subject is the first steps of being success, so you must fight for it, because you are allowed to decide your future. There are a lot of types of student in the college, different types of student have different kind of goal or aim. But most of the students’ goal is to be a successful college student. To be a successful college student is not that easy, some of the students think that get well result in their academic is consider a successful student., but this idea is definitely wrong. A successful college student does not mean the smartest in the class, the best result in academic student, the word “success” means success in various aspects...
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...It’s no secret that online students can face different challenges while pursuing their studies. These challenges can keep students from being successful online students. According to the article “Self-regulation of motivation when learning online: the importance of who, why, and how,” Online students will need to display certain characteristics in order to be a successful. In order to be a successful online student one must learn and maintain motivation to learn. (Cite Article) For this paper I will explore some of the main points of the article, I will reflect on the points of the article, and discuss how to apply some of these points to my own life. The article that I chose to use for information is entitled “Self-regulation of motivation when learning online: the importance of who, why, and how.” This article discusses a few characteristics of successful online students. One of the main points the article uses is the idea that “successful online students must learn the material & must maintain motivation to learn the material on their own.” (Cite Article) In addition to making the point that successful online students must learn the material & must maintain the motivation to learn the material on their own, the article also states there are “2 kinds of motivation that are essential to be a successful online student. Those two types of motivation are a “goals defined” (the value and expectancy of learning) motivation and an “experience defined” (whether interesting) motivation...
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...Teachers and students have distinctive learning styles. To become a successful learner; you must first understand how the human brain processes information. Each writer has their personal instinctive writing style, and can show how the brain functions. This writer will show how learning styles are applied to K-12 students and why it is important to recognize these characteristics. Self Analysis The reflective learner, “likes to work alone, and lecture can be difficult if not given time to digest (Trustees, 2009).” Reflective learning is part of the intuitive learning style. The writer is able to comprehend information by having time to think about the material, and by not just reading and memorizing the information. Reflective learners have to writer, summarize, and come up with questions to the material. The reflective learner has to look over the information more than just one time. For example, a reflective learner would have to write down the information that is given in a lecture as it is being given. Reflective learners have to learn through writing and listening to lectures. How does this apply to K-12 students? Reflective learning is used every day in the classroom to help the teachers engage in giving the students instruction. Teachers are able to share their insights with other teachers. Teachers are able to see what is working in the class with the students and what needs fixed for future lessons. In the article, An Integrated Model for Practicing...
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...Becoming a Successful Student Succeeding in school can be easy for some, but for those who struggle and don’t believe in themselves it can be a long road to understand how to become successful in school and even life. There are plenty of methods people use to become a better student, let’s focus on reading, writing and time management. By hitting these points we will break down how a student turns his academic life around and succeed in the classroom. Listening to your professor for four hours and taking down notes can be effective, but have you ever heard that reading everyday can help you expand vocabulary, comprehend new situations and become smarter? Finding an hour of your schedule to sit in a quiet place and read a book a month can help you advance your thought process. Read the chapter summary, and don’t just jump in to the book with out an understanding of it. As you begin reading, take notes and understand what the author is interpreting, it is a great technique to acquire. According to Emory University, located in Georgia, reading a novel improves brain function, and flared up parts of the brain where the receptivity of language is located. “the purpose of reading is to connect the ideas on the page to what you already know.” (Martin, pg. 7). Note taking is one of the most important things you can do in a class, unless you record the lecture of a professor. Notes lets you comeback to a certain point and re read what was being said. Writing down things helps you...
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...Raising a Successful College Student Carol Woods GEN/200 In order to be a successful college student personal responsibility must be learned at an early age. Children must learn personal responsibility, time management skills, and family values when they are young. If children develop a strong responsibility foundation they will develop into a successful college student. Personal responsibility is something that is taught to you throughout your childhood and developed throughout your adult life. A child is taught family values daily from the time they begin to walk. Parents begin to pass on their own values system and this is what a person’s responsibility foundation is built on. In order for a student to be successful in their college career they must already have been taught personal responsibility throughout their childhood. Children should be given household chores at a very young age, like picking up their toys, making their beds, and even feeding the family pet, at this age they are exposed to the family values at its core. Children begin to realize what responsibility is through these chores. Experts believe that any type of household responsibilities, are important for kids (Dunnewind, 2004). When they develop into adolescence they should be given more responsibility. School work becomes a priority, social groups draw their interest and now they begin to develop their time management skills. Learning how to navigate between class assignments...
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...motivated to become better. Also good and bad decisions are a factor in a person’s success. Bumps in the road, poor decisions, regrets, something bad happening, road’s you take to success all align with how people in poverty relate to the world. When a situation is seemingly hopeless one minute and within the next that poor decision may have set someone on the correct path to success. Believe it or not, one of the most recognized speeches, that has touched...
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...Innovated Learning Essay A typical Students response to a hated subject in school is “What will I need to know this for in my future?” Creativity is just as important in education as literacy. Opening up your mind to embrace your gifts should be stressed a lot more in the high school curriculum. In today’s society, as you get older, your original sense of your childhood creativity begins to disintegrate. We become unwilling to use our capabilities out of the fear of being wrong. As you get older the basic school subjects of math, science, literature, and history are defined and expanded on in learning then using one’s personal creativity. Most education leaders push students to use their methods in order to become successful in the student’s education. Unfortunately most students miss out on what their creative aspects in which can make them successful down the line. Speaker, Ken Robinson, demonstrates a great speech that indicates that society needs to be stressing creativity just as much as your typical education. “Children are all artist”, says Ken Robinson. We as humans are naturally born with a sense of imagination. When children are first learning how the world works, they will creatively think of reason why it works the way it does. For example when you are first teaching a child about subjects like religion and the weather we may come up with or they come up with things like thunder is God going bowling. These reasons make for a less scary idea, and also provide...
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...Amberlee Bosse Abstract Can Personal Responsibility correlate to being a successful student? While personal responsibility requires accountability for one’s own actions, you can become a successful student by being disciplined, goal orientated and using time management skills. Personal responsibility requires students to acknowledge the consequences of their actions and to own up to their mistakes. You no longer point the finger at others or shift the blame; you’re putting it square on your shoulders and you become responsible for your actions likewise as personal responsibility relates to academic success, not being responsible can lead to not being prepared for class, turning in assignments at the very last minute and being late for class or simply not showing up at all for class. A well-disciplined student is one that will display good study habits; they will prioritize from what is most important to what isn’t important at all. The student will know what it takes to be a successful student, but not only that, will take the necessary steps to get it done. The more disciplined you become as a student; your result will be a positive one. It will help to know your style of learning in order to be an effective student. Being a goal oriented student you are striving and pushing all with the hopes of attaining a goal. Without a goal, you have nothing to look forward to. Goal oriented students set a goal, come back often to look at it to make sure they are still on the...
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...“Attributions of high achieving Thai university students perceiving themselves as failures in English usage” by Dr. Kasma Suwanarak School of Language and Communication, National Institute of Development Administration and Asst. Prof. Dr. Sureepong Phothongsunan Faculty of Arts, Assumption University _________________________________ Abstract The study investigates the attributions of English language learning of 125 Thai undergraduate students in the last year of their study in International Business Management and Hotel Management at a university in Thailand. According to the programme requirement, these students have to study at least five selective English courses after passing the three compulsory foundation English courses. In response to the closed and open-ended questionnaire, 32 students perceived themselves as failures in English language learning and usage though obtaining highly satisfactory grades in English. 20 students were then selected for the interview in order to further explore reasons they rendered as failed learners and their views on how to become better language learners and on the benefits of learning English. Qualitative in nature, an interpretive approach is employed, taking into account the subjective meaning which the participants convey. Research findings indicate that there are various grounds why the students discern themselves as unsuccessful English learners. Implications are drawn regarding English learning and teaching as well as learners’...
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...provide equal opportunity for students of all interests. The schools believe there is a certain standard in which students will become successful and smart. However, Gerald Graff, in Hidden Intellectualism, argues that students who are considered, “street smart” should also be acknowledged as, “intellectual” but do not meet that standard due to the set expectations of academia. The educational system is intended to develop everyone for an equal chance of success. If it did, it would be able to make the "street smart" achieve the intellectuality that is expected to meet the academic standard. The author emphasizes that academia or academics are focusing on educational life by being capable of reading and understanding a difficult text. Also the street smart won't be able to pass this task unless they can choose a subject that is interesting rather than what is automatically given them. In addition, he author encourages academia to tap into their students’ street smart to help them succeed in an academic environment they might otherwise be excluded from by changing the subject to a subject in which the student is interested. I am of two minds about Gerald Graff’s claim that teachers should encourage students to focus on subjects that are interesting and make the students motivated to learn. On the one hand, I agree that if the teacher gives the students a subject they like, they will be more successful in their job, rather than giving the students subjects that are uninteresting...
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...The artifact used for this reflection is the Data Based Intervention Plan used in SPE 709. This plan shows how I collected data, interpreted data, implemented interventions, and helped increase the students’ knowledge in the areas of letter naming fluency (LNF), letter sound fluency (LSF), and CVC word recognition (pre-primer sight words). The assessments I used in this process included the Curriculum Based Measurements Letter Naming Fluency (LNF) probe and the Letter Sound Fluency (LSF) probe and teacher made flashcards. I also used www.starfall.com and www.ABCMouse.com as interventions to help increase the students learning process. Using the LNF and LSF allowed me the opportunity to see firsthand the areas of need for increasing the students LNF, LSF, and CVC word recognition. Assessment is a key concept in the learning process and understanding when to assess, how to assess, and what to assess with special needs children is very important in ascertaining success in assessment (ICC8K1). It is also important to understand the process of screening students with special needs, in that they are...
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...with out learning how to be successful in the class. People become overwhelmed and many times failing their courses. In the article “Ten Simple Rules for Online Learning”, written by David B. Searls, explains how to be a successful online student. This article covers many different important aspects on how to be a successful online learner. Some of the main points that Mr. Searls covers are quite simple and fairly common to all types of students. Others are more directly representative of online students. For instance, rule number two is to be selective. Residential students must be selective when choosing a school to attend, but online learners have to be extremely more selective while choosing an online school to attend. Online students need to be more selective because the type of online instruction is not the same as a traditional on campus instruction. Other rules that pertain more so to online learners are rules four, five, and six. These rules cover doing the readings, exercises, and assessments. All of these are need to be implemented more by online learners because they are more responsible for their own education. A residential student has the opportunity to experience first hand the subject taught to them compared to an online learner who does not experience face-to-face classes. After reading this article I discovered many ways in which I can improve my online learning experience. I am new to online learning, so this has opened my eyes to how responsible I have...
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...who we become. Taking on personal responsibility does not mean everything will come easy or that you have control over things that may happen, it means you can make better choices on how things turn out in your life. As a child, we are dependent upon our parents to hold our hands as we progress into our teens. Sometimes it becomes difficult to move forward without being a victim to change. As a person move into adulthood personal responsibility becomes even more difficult because adapting to change is difficult. You are now at a place in your life where you have a freedom to make decisions and without falling back into a place of dependency. There are several ways to investigate our personal responsibility. One way in discovering responsibility is to move forward. We cannot wait on anyone else to make decisions, take control or hold you back. So many people start a project or make major decisions that will impact their lives and because we wait on others approval, we find ourselves sitting in the same spot because we felt we lacked the support needed to reach our goal. Becoming a successful college student takes on a huge responsibility because you must have personal responsibility in order to have success in college. There were many times I ask myself, why I am doing this? There are so many additional responsibilities in coming a successful college student especially when you wait until your own children are in college. While you are teaching your children how to become...
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...article, “Tips for Successful Students,” http://homepage.usask.ca/~clv022/success.htm. Also, review the characteristics of a successful student in the lecture. As you consider these, which is your strongest characteristic? Why? How will this characteristic help you to become a successful student in your program of study? A successful student embodies characteristics such as perseverance, hard work, determination and ultimately good time management. From reading, Tips for Successful Students: Guidelines and Thoughts for Academic Success, I can identify many of the traits of successful students in myself. To begin with, I am a goal-oriented individual. I have clear educational goal and career aspirations in my nursing profession. I am determined to complete my Bachelors in Nursing, and then I want to go further my nursing education by going to Masters in nursing likely specializing in becoming a Nurse Practitioner. Another attribute I identify in myself is the fact that I am responsible and active person. I believe that I need to be accountable for my action and duties. I need to be a reliable and trust worthy person in order to succeed in life. That’s also why I believe proper time management is a vital trait in a successful student. It is very important to keep balance between job, studies and personal life. Many students who are enrolled in online education program have active family life, full-time job and studies, thus, it is essential for students to properly use their...
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...Developing a Motivational Plan Gina Smith Grand Canyon University: EDA-575 Educational Leadership in a Changing World February 10, 2013 Motivating Teachers In any work environment one of the most important things to learn about human relations is how to motivate people to do things. One of the most obvious objectives in a job is pay, but there are other motives in the line of work they chose. School environments differ from business environments by their objectives. In a school environment, the product that is to be constructed is the knowledge that students will gain. School leaders seek to motivate their teachers in order to motivate students to become successful learners. The projected outcome in a school environment is that all students became successful learners. I have worked in my school for nine years. During this time, I have worked for two different principals and worked with a variety of teachers. I have worked with different personalities and I have witnessed what motivates people to do what they do. I have witnessed teachers who were motivated by the results of their students’ progress. Some teachers were simply there for the paycheck and did not seek to further challenge their students’ academic abilities. In our current situation, we have been working with a new principal and counselor for two years now. This change took some time for everyone to adjust. Our former principal was goal driven, respected, and was very convincing and motivating...
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