“The Importance of Good

Sportsmanship”

In every sport, there is always a winner and a loser. In every game someone has to lose. But lately the word loser has gone from someone who lost to a derogatory word. It now means someone who is a really bad person that is not independent. When you lose you should not take out on the opposing team that was just trying to succeed not put you down. Even if the other team rubs their success in your face you should always keep your head up. When you lose you should congratulate the opposing team for their win and move on. If you dwell on the past it will just affect your future games. The whole team should be together and united so no one gets left behind. This enthusiasm should be carried in all the games, and spread to those watching. There may be times when the crowd is not rooting for you but just remembered that you can’t change people’s opinion about you.

1. Remember that everybody can lose
2. A loss does not mean that you are losing everything

Student Success Statement

“We need the courage to start and continue what we should do, and the courage to stop what we shouldn’t do”

Richard L. Evans

 

I think this statement is true because we should finish what we start. If it’s bad then you should know when to stop so you or someone doesn’t get hurt. When you finish something you feel inner pride.

Student Responsibilities

Part 3

What is important to you is that you, as you start to reach milestones in your ambitions, you appreciate your own achievements. It is a boost, of course, if others appreciate what you have done too, but appreciating yourself will strengthen your self-belief, and reinforce your determination to succeed.

Some of the key characteristics you will find in those who successful are perseverance, prepared to research, plan and work hard, practice a lot even when things do not seem to be going well, and an ability to recover and learn from setbacks. At the outset of whatever it is you are trying to succeed in, a strong vision of your future, planning, and setting yourself achievable targets can all play an important role.

If you feel you do not naturally have all those characteristics, then do not despair. Each of them can be accomplished by your own application. You can use meditation and visualization techniques to initiate your vision, and they can certainly be learnt both for that purpose and for each step you take to reach your goals. Setting goals and objectives can be a personal or business technique that can be learnt. You can develop inner strength to succeed if you apply yourself to doing just that; that will enable you to recover from setbacks more easily.

Students: These are YOUR Responsibilities!

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Student Responsibilities

Part 1

Students have the right to seize the responsibility for their own destiny and should be encouraged to do so. With every right comes responsibility!

1.   I have the responsibility to come to every class prepared to listen, to participate, and to learn.

2.   I have the responsibility to read the text carefully, noting important ideas and rephrasing concepts in my own words.

3.  I have the responsibility to work examples in the textbook and those given in class.

4.   I have the responsibility to consult other students, the teacher, and assistant, and other resources whenever I need the extra help.

5.  I have the responsibility to understand that the teacher is not primarily responsible for making me understand, but that it is my job to study and to learn.

6.  I have the responsibility of keeping an open mind and trying to comprehend that the teacher is trying to get across.

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Successful Students

Part 3

7. Successful students understand that actions affect learning. Successful students know their personal behavior affect their feelings and emotions that 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’re bored, and you’ll become bored. Act like you’re disinterested, and you’ll become disinterested. So the next time you have trouble concentrating in the 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, your classmates and professor may also get more excited and enthusiastic.

8. Successful students talk about what they’re 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’s 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 don’t “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’re teaching your peers.

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“My basic principle is that you don’t make decisions because they are easy; you don’t make them because they are cheap; you don’t make them because they’re popular; you make them because they’re right.”

Theodore Hesburgh

Student Success Statement

Student Success

Statement

“Decisions Determine Destiny”

Thomas S.Monson

Successful Students Part 2

Successful Students

Part 2

4. Successful students learn that a student and a teacher make a team. Most teachers 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 you material, the instructor takes some justifiable pride in teaching. Join forces with your instructor, they are not an enemy, you share the same interests, the same goals-in short, you’re teammates. Get to know your professor. You’re the most valuable players on the team. Your jobs are to work together for mutual success. Neither wishes to chalk up a losing season. Be a team player!

5. Successful students don’t sit in the back. Successful students minimize classroom distractions that interfere with learning. Students want the best seat available for their entertainment dollars, but willingly seek the worst seat for their education dollars.

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Successful students

Part 1

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

1.   Successful students 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 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.

 

CHOOSE THE RIGHT

Successful students

Part 1

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

1.    Successful students 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 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.

 

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Student Success Statement

“Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all.”

--Benjamin Franklin

Reflection: I think that he means that many physical things or manmade objects have to no value compared to doing what’s right and having a clean conscious.

Characteristics of a Successful
Student

http://academica.cuesta.edu/acasupp/as/201.HTM

 

Many students do not know what it takes to be successful in the educational environment. They understand good and bad grades in a general way, and they sense that they should attend classes, but that is where their knowledge begins and ends.

Most instructors know what a good student is- and is not. For one thing, a good student is not necessarily the most intelligent individual in the class.

The following is a list of some characteristics of good students. This list is a description of what a hard-working student does and what a teacher likes to see. By learning these characteristics, you may better understand the day-to-day and class-to-class behavior of successful students. The idea is to provide you with guidelines you can follow which will help you get down to the business of becoming a serious, successful student.

1.  Successful students attend classes regularly. They are on time. They listen and train themselves to pay attention. If they miss a session, they feel obligated to let the instructor know why before class.

 

Choose the Right

Student Success Statement

“Goals determine what you

are going to be.”

Julius Erving

50 Habits of Successful People

Habits 48-50

48. They finish what the start. While so many spend their life starting things that they never finish, successful people get the job done—even when the excitement and the novelty have worn off. Even when it ain’t fun.

49. They are multi-dimensional, amazing, wonderful complex creatures (as well all are). They realize that not only are they physical and psychological beings, but emotional and spiritual creatures as well. They consciously work at being healthy and productive on all levels.

50. They practice what they preach. They don’t talk about theory, they live the reality.

 

There you have it. Be familiar with the 50 habits of successful people and become super successful yourself. Develop these habits and you will enjoy the journey of life. You will experience valleys of low and mountain peaks of high achievement. But most of all, you will have peace, and there is no substitute for peace within your heart and soul. Nothing can take the place of peace. CTR brings happiness and peace. CTW brings sadness, misery, and bondage.

So decide now that you will live a happy and successful life. Developing habits for success is a vital program for your journey throughout you days in this great lifetime. CTR and you will be happy and successful EVERY DAY!!

 

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 5 Keys to Success are:

1)                 Do your homework

2)                 Pay attention in class

3)                 Ask questions if you don’t know

4)                 Read

5)                 Listen to others

Student Success Statement

“Right is right,

even if everyone is against it.

Wrong is wrong,

even if everyone is for it “

-William Penn

50 Habits of Successful

People

(Habits 44-47)

44. They don’t rationalize failure. While many are talking about their age, their sore back, their lack of time, their poor genetics, their ‘bad luck’, their nasty boss and their lack of opportunities (all good reasons to fail), they are finding a way to succeed despite all their challenges.

45. They have an off switch. They know how to relax, enjoy what they have in their life and to have fun.

46. Their career is not their identity, it’s their job. It’s not who they are, it’s what they do.

47. They are more interested in effective than they are in easy. While the majority look for the quickest, easiest way (the shortcut), they look for the course of action which will produce the best results over the long term.

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Student Success Statement

“It may make a difference to all eternity whether we do right or wrong today”

--James Freeman Clark