Student Success Statement

“We need the courage to start and continue what we should do, and the courage to stop what we shouldn’t do”

Richard L. Evans

This statement means that we shouldn’t be afraid to make our own decisions. If your peers are giving you bad advice , don’t listen to them and have the courage to stand up for yourself.

Student Responsibilities

Part 3

What is important to you is that you, as you start to reach milestone in your ambitions, you appreciate your own achievements. Is it a boost, of course if others appreciate what you have done too, but appreciating yourself will strengthen your self-belief, and reinforce your determination to succeed.

Some of the key characteristics you will find in those who are successful are perseverance, prepared to research, plan and work hard, practice a lot and even when things do not seem to be going well, and an ability to recover and learn from setbacks. At the outset of whatever it is you are trying to succeed in, a strong vision of your future, planning, and setting yourself achievable  targets can all play an important role.

If you feel you do not naturally have all those characteristics, then do not despair. Each of them can be accomplished by your own application. You can use meditation and visualization techniques to initiate your vision, and they can certainly be learnt both for that purpose and for each step you take to reach your goals. Setting goals and objectives can be a personal or business technique that can be learnt. You can develop inner strength to succeed if you apply yourself to doing just that; that will enable you to recover from setbacks more easily.

Students: These are YOUR Responsibilities!

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“The Importance of Good Sportsmanship”

When you are playing a sport you must play by the rules. You must be truth to yourself and always be a role model to your peers. It doesn’t matter if you lose or win as long as you have fun doing what you like. There are many sports were you can show your skills.

Some of those sportsmanship are:

§ Responsible

§ Fairness

§ Respectful

§ Caring

§ Citizenship

No matter what always be proud of what you have accomplished. When you win always pursue victory with honor. Be loyal to yourself, the team, and your school.

Things you shouldn’t do:

§ Cheat

§ Lie

§ Steal

§ Engage in any other dishonest

 Don’t fight or show excessive displays of anger or frustration. Always have the strength to overcome the temptation to retaliate. Keep in mind that you shouldn’t use any illegal or unhealthy substances.

For example:

§  Alcohol

§  Tobacco

§  Drugs or engage in any unhealthy techniques to gain, lose or maintain weight

Student Success Statement

“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom”

George Washington Carver

This means that education is very important because later on it will impact your life. You must always work hard in order to be successful in life. Your future will be easier if you are well educated because it helps you socialize with others.

Student Responsibilities

Part 2

7. I have the responsibility to do every bit of assigned homework with proper attention and thought.

8. I have the responsibility to view my teacher as a partner in my education.

9. I have the responsibility to understand that I am not the only student in my class, and that if I fall behind the class, not all of my catching up is appropriate for the classroom setting.

10. I have the responsibility to act as a competent adult.

11. I have the responsibility of trying to integrate the concepts being taught into other courses and other areas of my life.

12. I have the responsibility to be polite and open to my teacher and classmates.

13. I have the responsibility to accept that my work will be evaluate in terms of what skills any student in the course is expected to master.

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by Lynne Marie Rodell, Christian Brothers University, Tennessee. From: The teaching professor, January 1994, p.3

 

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Student Responsibilities

Part 1

Students have the right to seize the responsibility for their own destiny and should be encouraged to do so. With every right comes responsibility!

1.     I have the responsibility to come to every class prepared to listen, to participate, and to learn.

2.      I have the responsibility to read the text carefully, nothing important ideas and rephrasing concepts in my own words.

3.      I have the responsibility to work examples in the textbooks and those given in class.

4.     I have the responsibility to consult other students, the teacher, and assistant, and other resources whenever I need the extra help. 

5.     I have responsibility to understand that the teacher is not primarily responsible for making me understand, but it is my job to study and to learn.

6.      I have the responsibility of keeping an open mind and trying to comprehend what the teacher is trying to get across.

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Student Success Statement

“My basic principle is that you don’t make decisions because they are easy; you don’t make them because they are cheap; you don’t make them because they’re popular; you make them because they’re right.”

Theodore Hesburgh

This statement means that every time you make a decision you must think what is right first before you act. Some decisions are harder to make but you must choose wisely. It doesn’t matter how valuable the decisions are, what matters is to always choose what is right.

Student Success Statement

“Decisions Determine Destiny”

Thomas S. Monson

This statement means that the decisions you make will impact your future. There is different kind of decisions some might be easy and some will be hard but the most important thing is to choose the right decisions.

Successful Students

Part 2

4.  Successful students learn that a student and a teacher make a team. Most teachers want exactly what you want: they would like for you to learn the material in their respective classes and earn a good grade.

   Successful students reflect well on the efforts of any teacher; if you have learned your material, the instructor takes some justifiable pride in teaching. Join forces with your instructor, they are not an enemy, you share the same interests, the same goals- in short, you’re teammates. Get to know your professor. You’re the most valuable on the same team. Your jobs are to work together for mutual success. Neither wishes to chalk up a losing season. Be a team player!

5. Successful students don’t sit in the back. Successful students minimize classroom distractions that interfere with learning. Students want the best seat available for their entertainment dollars, but willingly seek the worst seat for their educational dollars. Students who sit in the back cannot possibly be their teachers teammate (see no.4) why

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Five Keys to Success are:

1.   Be Trustworthy

2.   Be Polite

3.   Try your best

4.   Be a good citizen

5.   Work hard

Student Success Statement

“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stands with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.”

-        Abraham Lincoln

 I believe this statement means that it doesn’t matter if you win in life or not what matters is that you always stay true to yourself. Choosing the right people will lead you to a better and successful life.

Successful Students

Part 1

Successful students exhibit a combination of successful attitudes and behaviors as well as intellectual capacity. Successful students

1.     Successful students are responsible and active. Successful students get involved in their studies, accept responsibility for their own education, and are active participants in it 

Responsibility means control. It’s the difference between leading and being led. Your own efforts control your grade, you earn the glory or deserve the blame, you make the choice. Active classroom participation improves grades without increasing study time. You can sit there, act bored, daydream, or sleep. Or. You can actively listen, think, question, and take notes like someone in charge of their learning experience. Either option costs one class period. However, the former method will require a large degree of additional work outside if class to achieve the same degree of learning the latter provides at one sitting. The choice is yours.

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My hobbies are:

ü     Sleeping 

                   ü     Bike riding
                  ü     Cheer
  ü     Volleyball
                 ü     Swimming

ü     Hanging out with friends

ü     Shopping

ü     Theatre

ü     Texting

Student Success Statement

“Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all.”

-Benjamin Franklin

 

This statement means that materialistic items are not important as your personality is. Materialistic items can be taken away from you easily and your personality will always be in you.

Characteristics of a Successful Student

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Many students do not know what it takes to be successful in the educational environment. They understand good and bad grades in a general way, and they sense that they should attend classes, but that is where their knowledge begins and ends.

Most instructors know what a good student is – and is not. For one thing, a good student is not necessarily the most intelligent individual in the class.

The following is a list of some characteristics of good students. This list is a description of what a hard-working student does and what a teacher likes to see. By learning these characteristics, you may better understand the day-to-day and class-to-class behavior of successful students. The idea is to provide with guidelines you can follow which will help you get down to the business of becoming a serious, successful student.

1.     Successful students attend classes regularly. They are on time. They listen and train themselves to pay attention. If they miss a session, they feel obligated to let the instructor know why before class begins, if possible, and their excuses are legitimate and reasonable. They make sure they get all missed assignments (by contacting the instructor or another student), and understands specifically what was covered in class. Successful students take responsibility for themselves and their actions.

 

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50 Habits of Successful People

Habits 48-50

48. They finish what they started. While so many spend their life starting things that they never finish, successful people get the job done-even when the excitement and the novelty have worn off. Even when it ain’t fun.

49. They are multi-dimensional, amazing, wonderful complex creatures (as we all are). They realize that only are they physical and psychological beings, but emotional and spiritual creatures as well. They consciously work as being healthy and productive in all levels.

50. They practice what they preach. They don’t talk about theory, they live the reality.

There you have it. Be familiar with the 50 habits of successful people and become super successful yourself. Develop this habits and you will enjoy the journey of life. You will experience values of low and mountains peaks of high achievement. But most of all, you will have peace, and there is no substitute for peace within your heart and soul. Nothing can take the place of peace. CTR brings happiness and peace. CTW brings sadness, misery, and bondage.

So decide now that you will live a happy and successful life. And developing habits for success is a vital program for you as you journey throughout your days in this great lifetime. CTR and you will be happy and successful EVERY DAY!!

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Student Success Statement

“Right is right, even if everyone is against it. Wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it”

-      William Penn

This statement means that you should always do what you think is right even though people disagree with you.  You know it’s wrong when you don’t feel it’s right.

50 Habits of Successful People

(Habits 44-47)

44. They don’t rationalize failure. While many are talking about their age, their sore back, their lack of time, their poor genetics, their ‘bad luck’, their nasty boss and their lack of opportunities (all good reasons to fail), they are finding a way to succeed despite all their challenges.

45. They have an off switch. They know how to relax, enjoy what they have in their life and to have fun.

46. Their career is not their identity, it’s their job. It’s not who they are, it’s what they do.

47. They are more interested in effective than they are in easy. While the majority look for the quickest easiest way (the shortcut) they look for the course of action which will produce the best results over the long term.

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Summary Reflection

This was a very inspiring story and it shows that we can learn many things from little kids. Ian chose the right because he gave back the ball back to Nicholas. He had dropped the ball and a guy gave it to Ian, he had the chance to keep a souvenir from a baseball game. He saw Nicholas upset and went up to him to give him the ball. He got rewarded with a contract of 4 tickets to another baseball game and a bat signed by his favorite baseball player.

50 Habits of Successful People

Habits 36-43

36. They have a big engine. They work hard and are not lazy.

37. They are resilient. When most would throw in the towel, they’re just warming up.

38. They are open to, and more likely to act upon, feedback.

39. They don’t hang out with toxic people.

40. They don’t invest time or emotional energy into things that they have no control of.

41. They are happy to swim against the tide, to do what most won’t. They are not people pleasers and they don’t need constant approval.

42. They are more comfortable with their own company than most.

43. They set higher standards for themselves (a choice we can all make), which in turn produces greater commitment, more momentum, a better work ethic and of course, better results.

Student Success Statement

“It’s not living that matters, but living rightly”

-        Socrates

This statement means that if you don’t make the right choices in life then there’s no point of you living. Your life has more value when choosing the right.

50 Habits of Successful People

(Habits 31-35)

31. They are secure. They do not derive their sense of worth of self from what they own, who they know, where they live or what they look like.

32. They are generous and kind. They take pleasure in helping others achieve.

33. They are humble and they are happy to admit mistakes and to apologize. They are confident in their ability, but not arrogant. They are happy to learn from others. They are happy to make others look good rather than seek their own personal glory.

34. They are adaptable and embrace change, while the majority are creatures of comfort and habit. They are comfortable with, and embrace, the new and the unfamiliar.

35. They keep themselves in shape physically, not to be mistaken with training for the Olympics or being obsessed with their body. They understand the importance of being physically well. They are not all about looks, they are more concerned with function and health their body is not who they are, it’s where they live.

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Student Success Statement

"You are accountable for YOUR choices"

Thomas S. Monson

what this statement is saying is that you shouldn't blame others for your consequences. They weren't the ones that made the decisions, it was you and only you.

50 Habits of Successful people

(Habits 21-30)

21. They don’t believe in, or wait for fate, destiny, chance of luck to determine or shape their future. They believe in, and are committed to actively and consciously creating their own best life.

22. While many people are reactive, they are proactive. They take action before they have to.

23. They are more effective than most at managing their emotions. They feel like we all do but they are not slaves to their emotions.

24. They are good communicators and they consciously work at it.

25. They have a plan for their life and they work methodically at turning that plan into a reality. Their life is not a clumsy series of unplanned events and outcomes.

26.  Their desire to be exceptional need that they typically do things that most won’t. They become exceptional by choice. We’re all face with life- shaping decisions almost daily. Successful people make the decisions that most wont and don’t.

27. While many people are pleasure junkies and avoid pain and discomfort at all costs, successful people understand the value and benefits of working through the tough stuff that most would avoid.

28. They have identified their core values (what is important to them) and they do their best to live a life which is reflective of those values.

29. They have balance. While they may be financially successful, they know that the terms money and success are not interchangeable. They understand that people who are successful on a financial level only, are not successful at all. Unfortunately we live in a society which teaches that money equals success. Like many other things, money is a tool. It’s certainly not a bad thing but ultimately; it’s just another resource. Unfortunately, too many people worship it.

30. They understand the importance of discipline and self- control. They are strong. They are happy to take the road less traveled.

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Student Success Statement

“Ask yourself is it right or wrong and act accordingly”

Otto Graham, Jr.

Think before you act, always ask yourself if it’s right or wrong. If you don’t feel is the right thing to do then it’s probably wrong. If you don’t act appropriately you may hurt someone without even noticing.

50 Habits of Successful People

Habits 11-20

11. They align themselves with like-minded people. They understand the importance of being part of a team. They create win-win relationships.

12. They are ambitious; they want amazing-and why shouldn’t they? They consciously choose to live their best life rather than spending it on autopilot.

13. They have clarity and certainty about what they want (and don’t want) for their life. They actually visualize and plan their best reality while others are merely spectators of life.

14. They innovate rather than intimate.

15. They don’t procrastinate and they don’t spend their life waiting for the ‘right time’.

16. They are life-long learners. They constantly work at educating themselves, either formally (academically), informally (watching, listening, asking, reading, student of life) or experientially    (doing, trying,)… or all three.

17. They are glass half full people-while still being practical and down - to-earth. They have an ability to find the good.

18. They constantly do what they need to do, irrespective of how they are feeling on a given day. They don’t spent their life stopping and starting.

19. They take calculated risks- financial, emotional, professional, and psychological.

20.  They deal with problems and challenges quickly and effectively; they don’t put their head in the sand. They face their challenges and use them to improve themselves. When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

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