The Power of Study Groups Part 3

The Power of Study Groups

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Part 3

The Power of Study Groups Part 3

Here are some guidelines for creating and running a study group: How many? Create a group of six people. In a larger group, it’s easy for someone to get left out and smaller groups can too easily get off track.

Who? Pick classmates who seem to share your interest in doing well academically. Look for people who stay alert in class, take notes, ask questions and respond to the teacher’s questions. Include someone who understands the material better than you and can explain the concepts and someone who doesn't understand it as well, to whom you can explain the material.

Where? Hold study group sessions in a place that is free of distractions and that has room to spread out books and notes. How long? Meet for no more than two to three hours at a time. Having a time limit helps the group focus. If you know you only have an hour, you’re more likely to stay on task.

When? Try to meet regularly, on the same day and time each week. Treating the study session as you would other activities helps you to keep to a schedule and ensures that everyone attends.

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7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens Habit 5

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

Habit 5

5. Seek First to Understand, and then to be Understood

Because most people don’t listen very well, one of the great frustrations in life is that many don’t feel understood? This habit will ensure your teen learns the most important communication skill there is: active listening.

Why is this habit the key to communication? It’s because the deepest need of the human heart is to be understood. Everyone wants to be respected and valued for who they are—a unique, one-of-a-kind, never-to-be-cloned individual. People won’t expose their soft middles unless they feel genuine love and understanding. Once they feel it, however, they will tell you more than you may want to hear. People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.

Listen with your eyes, heart, and ears. 7 percent of communication is contained in the words we use. The rest comes from body language (53 percent) and how we say words, or the tone and feeling reflected in our voice (40 percent).

Most people are eager to talk and had rather talk than listen. We have one mouth and two ears. This means we should listen twice as much as we talk. We actually learn more while listening rather than when we talk. Learn to listen and listen to learn.

Listen, really listen, for understanding.

Seek first to understand then to be understood—LISTEN.

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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement 

"So often, in our quest to be more popular and to be part of the "in-group," we lose sight of things that are far more important." 

Sean Covey 

What this quote means is that we lose ourselves upon personal objectives to fulfill. We then lose what we intentionally intended to do. The human brain doesn't remember everything, so we lose track of what we had to do. So most humans seek popularity often forget about their real friends from the beginning. An example could be of my good friend Christian V. He was one of my best friends. He then tried out for basketball. And our friendship slowly faded. Now I see him only in my classes. I used hangout with him during lunch,  but now that he is part of the team I really don't anymore. So, he wanted to be in the "in-group" and he became popular. And we slowly still till this day, our friendship fades. So hopefully Christian V. you know who you are, I hope you actually read this and say "what's up!"

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement 

"You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible." 

Ezra Taft Benson 

In my opinion I believe that this means your conscious. Your conscious tells you whether you did something positive or negative. And example could be, lets say you didn't study for a test. Your conscious will be telling you, you did wrong. But if have been studying for the last couple of weeks, your conscious will be telling you positive things. So yes, I know when you do wrong you cannot feel right. There is another term for this phrase, rather quote. That word is guilt. 

7 habits of highly successful Teens Habit 2

7 habits of highly successful Teens

Habit 2

Habit 2: Begin With the End in mind

If teens aren't clear about where they want to end up in life, about their values, goals, and what they stand for, they will wander, waste time, and be tossed to and fro by the options of others. Help your teen create a personal mission statement which will act as a road map and direct and guide his decision-making process.

“Keep your eyes on the prize.” Determine you’re desired

Prize and don’t quit until you have realized the achievement of your prize. Then set another prize, another goal or desire that you would really like to achieve. Begin with the achievement of your prize in mind. Visualize and then realize. Start by having a target in mind; know where you are going.

One prize or goal you definitely need to establish for yourself is the prize of an honorable graduation from high school-that you will receive your diploma honesty and with integrity-which you earned it with perfect honesty.

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Student Sucess Statement

Student Sucess Statement

"Nothing is ever gained in doing what's wrong."

Wilford Woodruff

 

This quote is is absolutely correct. If you do whats right you will have evrything you possibly wanted. But id you choose the wrong, you will get nothing. So if you do not believe in this quote, I believe you have gotten nothing. What I mean by nothing is that you have done something wrong and didn't achieve anything. But let's say you have done right, you will be flourished with gifts, such as respect, honesty, loyalty, and much more.

 

"The saddest thingt in life is wasted talent."

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

 

"It's not WHERE you live but HOW you live that counts. It's not where you play the game but HOW you play the game that counts.

-Mr. Haymore

This quote by my New MEdia teacher means everything to evrybody. You can straighten out your life if you follow this quote. An example would be if you play a sport. Your not only going to play well for where you represent. But maybe you go on another team, so you will play outstanding for them too. What I'm trying to say is that your not just goin got waste you talent. So, back to where this can straighten out your life. If you Choose the right, follow every rule, and obide by them; you will be successful. Another example could be when your slacking off in class, bur remember; it's how you work and respect the rules that decide your future. So, if your slacking off in class; you have no bright future. But if your doing right; you have a outstanding bright furture and have endless possibilities !

So, if you do the right, you have nothing to worry about.

 

"The saddest thing in life is wasted talent."

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

 

"Goodness is the only investment that never fails."

 

--Henry David Thoreau  

 

 

What this post means is that no matter what you do you always have to try harder doing the right. If you invest most of your time doing the right instead of doing the wrong then I would encourage you to do the opposite. If you are doing whats right and listening to others i bet anything that you are succeeding. And if you are succeeding, you are following this quote right know. So, I srtongly recommened you invest most of your time by doing what right instead of investing your time doing the wrong!

Successful Students 10

Successful Students

10

10. Successful students are good time managers. Successful students do not procrastinate. They have learned that time control is life control and have consciously chosen to be in control of their life.

An elemental truth: you will either control time or be controlled by it! It’s your choice: you can lead or be led, establish control or relinquish control, steer your own course or follow others. Failure to take control of their own time is probably the no. 1 study skills problems for college students. It ultimately causes many students to become non-students! Procrastinators are good excuse-makers. Stop procrastinating. And don’t wait until tomorrow to do it!

The 10 items listed above are paraphrased from an article by Larry M. Ludewig called Ten Commandments for Effective Study Skills which appeared in The Teaching Professor, December, 1992.

“Learning Technologies and Online Education”

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Successful Students 5-6

Successful Students

5-6

To the temptations of inactive classroom experiences and distractions of all people between them and their instructor?

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

Why put something into your notes doesn’t understand? Ask the questions now that are necessary to make your notes meaningful at some later time. A short review of your notes while the material is still fresh on your mind helps you to learn more. The more you learn then, the less you’ll have to learn later and the less time it will take 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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Successful Students Part 1-2

Successful Students

Part 1-2

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

1.      ….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 still 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 of class to achieve the same degree of learning the latter provides at one sitting. The choice is yours.

2.      . . .have educational goals. Successful students have legitimate goals and are motivated by what they represent in terms of career aspirations and life’s desires.

Ask yourself these questions: What am I doing here? Why have I chosen to be sitting here now? Is there some better place I could be? What does my presence here mean to me? Answers to these questions represent your “Hot Buttons” and are, without a doubt, the most important factors in your success as a college student. If your educational goals are truly yours, not someone else’s, they will motivate a vital and positive academic attitude. If you are familiar with what these hot buttons represent and refer to them often, especially when you are tired of being a student, nothing can stop you; if you aren’t and don’t, everything can and will!

 

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