Learning Activities Essay

Throughout school, I have been very involved with extracurricular activities and helping the community. In high school, I was part of the Varsity Softball Team for four years. I received All State Academic in 2014 and Second team All District. I played on the Junior Varsity Basketball Team for two years and on the varsity level for one year. I participated on the Varsity track team one year. Not only was I involved with the athletic aspect of school, but I also became very engaged with the…

Shortened classes would be a great alternative this school. The students could have more time for sports, extra hours to work on homework, and be able to spend more time with their family and friends. The sports programs are very important to Peoria Notre Dame. If our classes are shortened, we will have plenty of time to practice and enhance our skills in these areas. The school will get a glowing reputation, and more young people will want to come if they know that PND takes their sports…

teacher is doing those circle time activities. I am not totally sure what to make of that observation. I hope it is a consistent thing she does with the children even when we are not there. There was a really great circle time activity this week. The theme was pirates that day. There was a great pirate book about letters the teacher read with the kids. After that, she had a large bucket of sand for the kids to dig in and find “buried treasure.” This was an inside activity, which I thought was…

“Doing color guard helped me to gain time management and organizational skills. As well as inspired me to get better grades so that I could stay in the program”. By engaging in extracurricular activities, students may be required to maintain good grades in order to meet eligibility to participate in such activities (Francisco). Examples such as competing in a speech contest may help a student gain confidence, and being involved in a youth group or scouting organization may help the student…

private life is the mandatory urine test.”(Goodreads) A common misunderstanding is that if you play a sport or participate in extracurricular activities, that you must be using some sort of drug. Professionals can testify that students who don’t participate in activities after school have a higher drug usage than athletes. In reality, these extracurricular activities are keeping these students from using drugs. Why should we invade the privacy of these students who are on the right path? I…

For students to be able to show full attention during school, they obviously have to have to be healthy. If a teen is unhealthy how would someone to expect them to be able to focus on school work. Teens have lately been unhealthy due to being extremely sleep deprived. With schools starting as early in the day as they do teens do not have the chance to get the 8-9 hours of sleep their bodies require. High schools should start later in the day to keep students healthy and alert in class, to follow…

their futures. All of these girls want to have a bright future and to be able to have the chance to go to a top college and to better their lives. These girls have been working hard all through out high school to get the grades and extra curricular activities in order to get accepted into college. Yet, the one of the main thing is stopping…

and training for adult status (Webster). The key word is through education—and yes homeschoolers get a fine education, but they do not get the full impact that public or private school children get. Though homeschoolers can join extracurricular activities, there are only twenty-four states that require all public schools to allow homeschoolers to have access to classes and or sports (HSLDA). The states that do not have this law for homeschoolers, the public schools determine whether they will…

Cindy Crawford is a graduating senior at Towson University, and is majoring in Business Management and minoring in Marketing. She is the captain of the volleyball team and a part of the Student Government Association. Cindy has completed all of her core course requirements except for one upper level management class. She decides to take Business Management 427, which is an online course taught by Professor Austin. Professor Austin has been teaching this course for five years. His previous…

Personal Reflection/Hypothesis The social issue I picked for my dissertation is early school times affect on students grades. My personal reflection on this topic is that I think school should start later because from personal experiences almost everyday I wake up for school and i’m still tired, and I know every grown up says “maybe you shouldn’t stay up so late and go to sleep earlier” but that’s the thing we can’t because we have homework, work and sports etc. I understand that if we started…