Students

The qualities that can provide a student with success should not be limited to the three included in this essay because there is a multitude of them. In order to succeed, an honors student should be encouraged to be curious, to be hard-working, and to be accepting. These three qualities are beneficial to have and will help push them towards their best chance at greatness. Honors students should be curious. I think that having a natural interest in finding out about new things is important…

2003). College readiness is at the heart of disconnect between aspirations of students and results of completing their academic career (Center for Community College Student Engagement, 2016). College preparedness is a key factor in increasing college completion. High school grades are a powerful predictor of college success (Astin, 1982). Stu Campus Climate Campus climate plays an important role in retaining students. Researchers agree that there is a need for some…

could maintain that happiness. Nowadays, looking back to history, either parents or teachers would use punishments as their way to remove students’ bad behaviour. Recently, NBC News (2016) reported that majority of parents still allowing spanking kids if they did bad behaviour. Getting hit and yelled by parents and educators is the common things…

Describe ways in which engaging students with data becomes a motivation for students to take ownership in their own learning process and provide at least one example from your experience. Incorporate information from at least two of the resources provided. In the past I have used data a bit more often. This year, not so much, since our tests changed. One way I have used data to engage students is by having students graph their tests results through a bar graph. Students would also be able to…

striving to provide a better education for the students that attend there. However, to update and create new programs, money is often needed. Therefore, the number of students coming into the university can have an effect on the programs being established. Howard and Jones (2000) as well as Clark and Cundiff (2011), have found that retention is a big concern for facilities of higher education. Other studies have shown that nearly a third of students who start out at a college do not make it past…

on the topic of international and immigrant students with relation to my own experiences as an immigrant. From the readings and my own research of qualitative studies on these groups of students, international and immigrant students, to a certain extent, share some aspects of student experience in PSE in terms of language and cultural barriers, which may hinder student development and success. But, I would like to focus my reflection on immigrant student experience. As we have discussed during…

Straight-A Student Seeing the students around you earning A’s, they make it seem easy but when it comes to you there is no way in becoming a straight-A student. Now do not be deceived it is not easy but it takes time and flexibility in order to accomplish the strategies of becoming the straight-A student you want to be. In the book, How to Become A Straight-A Student by Cal Newport the author’s message is to give the reader his perspective of how to become a successful straight-A student in…

College Crime and Safety: Are college students in danger? Everyday day is a higher risk for college students being in a situation of a crime. School shootings have become more frequent and put students in a dangerous place instead of school being about education not of crimes. Whenever I see these types of tragedies it makes me wonder if my college campus is safe. Getting to acknowledge more on something that could happen in the current university that I am attending and learning more on how to…

tell the whole story of my independence, self-motivation, and determination as a student. Lacking in this equation are the challenges of being a student in one of the largest high schools in Texas, as well as participating in school activities that require time management to fit everything into a 24-hour day. Lamar teachers are often stretched to the limits to explain the curriculum due to the diversity of the student body. To fully understand the material, I have to research solutions…

achieving and perfect grades are common words associated with a “Nerd” or a student who is excelling in every area of school. Everyone knows a 4.0 student because they're in every class of every school in the United States. A 4.0 student is a title put over a person who really just cares about their education and wants to excel and be the best they can possibly be in their classes. A few misconceptions surrounding these students would be that all they do is study, study and study some more…