Students throughout the United States are reporting that they are less prepared for college because high school curriculums did not formulate a knowledgeable environment. However, most of those students did not know what they wanted to do for a career once they graduated high school. According to Dr. Fritz Grupe, eighty percent of college bound students are undecided on what they want to major in in college (Ronan 2). This is proof that students’ minds were not previously engaged in developing an idea of what field they wanted to venture into. Students will be more prepared for college if they have a better prior understanding of the material they may delve into in their college curriculum, focus more on understanding than memorization, and
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If students are pressured to have a possible career path indicated by their junior year of high school and are required to take relevant courses, then that will prepare them for their future and help them become more successful.
Not being prepared for college is one of the most pronounced fears within students who are becoming ready to graduate. Knowing what careers people aspire to go into will create a more secure feeling. They will have prior knowledge of the majority of the topics that will be covered in their university curriculum. Preparedness is also like having the basics down. Concepts are harder to grasp when someone is completely oblivious to the underlying foundation of information. There will come times when the material will be brand new, but the majority of the material will have gotten covered in high school courses that were taken in preparation. For example, my brother is a senior in college, but in high school, he knew he wanted to major in a department of business. Therefore, he took classes that he knew would help prepare him: accounting, marketing, business management, entrepreneurship, AP statistics, and several others. Still today, in his senior year of college, he will come home and say that he is glad he had that base knowledge to help his understanding in a certain class. …show more content…
Options that would be available are: a medical, business, mathematics, engineering, or any other professional field. Within each of these choices there would be relevant classes that cover the basics and go in depth, but also have students focus on comprehending and understanding the content. For example, I want to major in pharmacy which is in the medical field; therefore, the classes I would be required to take are chemistry courses, biology, mathematics, physics, bio-medical sciences, and possibly world language in case I would be dealing with an individual who is not capable of speaking English. On the other hand, a history major may have to take courses such as; world religions, world cultures, military history, modern American history, AP US history, or AP government and politics. All of these classes that students would be required to take would one, give them an idea of what they will be studying in the future and what will be encountered, and two; help them be more successful in understanding the content they are studying. Having this option in a high school curriculum would eliminate all of the excuses that students ever used to say they are not prepared for
If students are pressured to have a possible career path indicated by their junior year of high school and are required to take relevant courses, then that will prepare them for their future and help them become more successful.
Not being prepared for college is one of the most pronounced fears within students who are becoming ready to graduate. Knowing what careers people aspire to go into will create a more secure feeling. They will have prior knowledge of the majority of the topics that will be covered in their university curriculum. Preparedness is also like having the basics down. Concepts are harder to grasp when someone is completely oblivious to the underlying foundation of information. There will come times when the material will be brand new, but the majority of the material will have gotten covered in high school courses that were taken in preparation. For example, my brother is a senior in college, but in high school, he knew he wanted to major in a department of business. Therefore, he took classes that he knew would help prepare him: accounting, marketing, business management, entrepreneurship, AP statistics, and several others. Still today, in his senior year of college, he will come home and say that he is glad he had that base knowledge to help his understanding in a certain class. …show more content…
Options that would be available are: a medical, business, mathematics, engineering, or any other professional field. Within each of these choices there would be relevant classes that cover the basics and go in depth, but also have students focus on comprehending and understanding the content. For example, I want to major in pharmacy which is in the medical field; therefore, the classes I would be required to take are chemistry courses, biology, mathematics, physics, bio-medical sciences, and possibly world language in case I would be dealing with an individual who is not capable of speaking English. On the other hand, a history major may have to take courses such as; world religions, world cultures, military history, modern American history, AP US history, or AP government and politics. All of these classes that students would be required to take would one, give them an idea of what they will be studying in the future and what will be encountered, and two; help them be more successful in understanding the content they are studying. Having this option in a high school curriculum would eliminate all of the excuses that students ever used to say they are not prepared for