Student Success Statement

“It is our duty to concentrate all our influence

to make popular that which is sound and good,

and (to make) unpopular that which is

Unsound (and not good)”

-Joseph Smith

What Joseph smith is trying to make people comprehend is that they should do what is right. It could be anything and everything from recycling to making a community meeting to discuss problems and ways to improve them. Crime is never a good thing; we must strive for improvement, compassion, and righteousness while eliminating the influence of that which is sinful and wrong. 

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9 . … Don’t cram for exams. Successful students know that divided periods of study are more effective than cram sessions, and they practice it.

If there is one thing that study skill specialists agree on, it is that distributed study is better than massed, late night, last-ditched efforts known as cramming. You’ll learn more, remember more, and earn a higher grade by studying in four, one-hour a –night sessions for Friday’s exam than studying for hour hours straight on Thursday night. Short, concentrated preparatory efforts are more rewarding and efficient than wasteful, inattentive, last moment marathons. Yet, so many students fail to learn this lesson and end up repeating it over and over again until it becomes a wasteful habit. Not too clever, huh?

When you cram, you are taking the shortcut, and shortcuts never produce any real worthwhile results, Also, when you take shortcuts, you feel rather rotten knowing that you could have done better but didn't  Shortcuts cut you short. You can’t plant watermelon seeds and harvest fresh watermelons the next day. It takes time. Cramming for a test or project and expecting to make a high score the next day is like planting watermelons seeds and expecting to harvest and eat fresh watermelons the next day. Plus cramming for a test or project does not help you academically, so why even do it. Plan ahead, prepare ahead. Give yourself plenty of days and weeks to prepare for the upcoming accountability opportunities

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Student Success Statement

“What’s right isn’t always popular. What is popular isn’t always right.”

-Howard Cosell

On particular example that shows how true this statement is would be drugs. Drugs might be popular among many people, but is it ok to use them because everyone else is? The answer is no. Right will always be right even If everyone does wrong. Another example would be bullying. If ever student in a class is bullying a particular student does that mean that it is right or okay to as well? Absolutely not! Don’t do what is popular, Do What Is Right.

Choose the right

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7. … Understand that actions affect learning. Successful students know that their personal behavior affect their feelings and emotions which in turn can affect learning.

If you act in a certain way that normally produces particular feelings, you will begin to experience those feelings. Act like you are bored, and you will become bored. Act like you are disinterested, and you will become disinterested. So the next time you have trouble concentrating in a classroom, ”Act” like an interested person : lean forward, place your feet flat on the floor, maintain eye contact with the professor, nod occasionally, take notes, and ask questions. Not only will you benefit directly from your actions, your classmates and professors may also get more enthusiastic and excited.

8. … Talk about what they are learning. Successful students get to know something well enough that they can put it into words. Talking about something, with friends or classmates, is not only good for checking whether or not you know something, It is a proven learning tool. Transferring ideas into words provides the most direct path for moving knowledge from short term to long term memory. You really do not know material until you can put it into words. So, next time you study, don’t do it silently. Talk about notes, problems, readings, etc. with friends, recite to a chair, organize an oral study group, pretend you are talking to your peers. “Talk Learning” produces a whole host of memory traces that result in more learning.

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Pleasure or Pain

A high school graduation can be the best and worst day for someone. If you completed all the required classes and are graduation It can be the best day. You get to feel pride in yourself and enjoy that once in a lifetime opportunity. If however you did not complete the required classes and are not able to graduate, watching those that are graduating can make it a very bad day filled with regrets for you. And then there are some otter circumstances. For example there was a mom who got arrested for cheering at her daughter’s graduation when she was warned not to cheer for individual students. Whether that rule as fair or not, her decision to cheer turned, “What should have been the best day was the worst day” as stated by her daughter. Remember always chose the right and you can’t go wrong.

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5. Don’t sit in the back of the room. Successful students Minimize classroom distraction that interferes 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 professor’s teammate. Why do they expose themselves to the temptations of inactive classroom experiences and distractions of all the people between them and their instructor? Of course, we know they chose the back seat classroom because they seek invisibility or anonymity, both of which are antithetical to efficient and effective learning. If you are trying not to be part of the class, why then, are you wasting your time? Push your hot buttons; is there something else you should be doing with your time?

6. … Take good notes. Successful students take notes that are understandable and organized, and review them often.

Why put something into your notes you don’t understand? Ask the questions now that are necessary to make your notes meaningful at some time later. A short review of your notes while the material is still fresh on your mind helps you learn more. The more you learn the less the less you will have to learn later and the less time it will take because you won’t have to include some deciphering time, also. The whole purpose of taking notes is to use them, and use them often. The more you use them, the more they improve.

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Student success statement

“The time is always right to do what is right”

-Martin Luther King Jr.

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There is never a bad time to do something right. Doing the right, will make you feel good about yourself. Sooner or later you will be rewarded for your actions. For example “If you see an old lady walking down the street help her.” Always choose the right!

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3. … ask questions. Successful students ask questions to provide the quickest route between ignorance and knowledge. In addition to securing knowledge you seek, asking questions has a least two other important benefits. The process helps you pay attention to your professor and it helps your professor pay attention to you. Think about it. If you want something go after it. Get the answer now, or fail a question later. There are no foolish questions, only foolish silence. It is your choice.

4. … Learn that a student and a professor make a team. Most instructors 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 the material, the instructor takes some justifiable pride in teaching. Join forces with your instructor they are not your enemy, you share the same interests, the same goals- in short, your teammates. Get to know your professor. You’re the most valuable players 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!

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