...hold yourself accountable for academic success. Even though many students believe that they do not need a plan to achieve academic success, planning and goal setting is critical, without having a plan, and setting goals self-accountability for success is difficult. Maintaining a plan to succeed and to hold yourself accountable for both success and failure is the first step in personal responsibility. Students that plan for and take personal responsibility for their education have drastically improved success rate of achieving their educational goals. Personal responsibility is holding yourself accountable for the actions you choose or chose not to take in your pursuit of success. Students that do not take personal responsibility for their success are doomed to fail. Success is a choice and is attained by not only choosing to be successful but by making the correct choices along the way to ensure you are staying on the path to success. Students that take personal responsibility for their education have drastically improved success rate of achieving their academic goals. As a student, you must develop a plan for success and then be self-accountable to using this plan to ensure success. While there may be some outside influences such as Career Advisors, Financial Advisors, Parents, or Employers holding the student accountable to a certain extent, only the student is truly in control of the decisions they make on a day to day basis and lead to success or failure as a student. If...
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...Continuing Academic Success GEN/201 Dec 15, 2014 Aimee Styers Continuing Academic Success Developing Academic success that will follow you throughout your life starts with planning, understanding your learning style, developing an effective writing and critical thinking process. As I begin my continuing education, continuing academic success is what I want, not only in my academic accomplishments but in all that I do at home and at work. So what is success, in its simplest form it is accomplishing or achieving what you desire or set as a goal. Then academic success is achieving or obtaining that degree and continuing academic success is the process of taking what you learn at school out into everyday life and your job. For me success is taking control of my education, abilities and skills to help me achieve my goals. Before I can do this I must establish a plan and define my goal or goals. So how do I reach this goal? That is a question many of us face, in many aspects of life. In reaching a goal it must first be defined and measureable. Effective goal setting is a key to success in whatever you do. According to (Morisano, Hirsh, Peterson, Pihl, & Shore, 2010), failure to have clear goals has led to students dropping out of college. When establishing a goal, an important question to ask is, why. Not knowing why you desire a goal will lead to a good chance of losing direction and site of the goal. Resulting in either the goal being delayed or worst, never...
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...Personal Responsibility Dr. Tommy Sickels August 13, 2015 Define Personal Responsibility and What It Means to You Personal responsibility means a variety of issues and ideas and is linked to “every aspect of life” (Personal Responsibility, 2013). Personal responsibility is tied to everything or action taken during the day. It is important to be accountable as well as assuming ownership of any consequences that may arise from any action or decision that is made during the course of any day. Many times responsibility is linked to a person’s personal values or morals as contributing influences that will have a factor in what action or decision is made. For this author, responsibility becomes very important characteristic that occurs every day in our lifetime. For example, we must be responsible for as well as is being liable or accountable for everything we do or say. It is very important these actions are not simply stated, but we must be able to back up these actions by what we do in terms of dialogue, performance and activities. Personal responsibility may mean something different to others, but it is important to understand the diversity of this idea. Personal responsibility may start when a problem is revealed or acknowledged. Many times these responsibilities can be resolved individually, but there are times it may take others to assist. Personal responsibility...
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...can be looked at as a way of life. So it would safe to say a way life is having responsibilities that consist of, but not limited to, personal goals, educational success, and financial stability. Personal goals, educational success, and financial stability will be discussed as the main points of personal responsibilities. As everyone is entitled to their own opinion, responsibilities is defined as being able to act independently and make decisions without having someone authorizing it in particular. Personal responsibility refers to responsibility in a sense that one is personally responsible for achieving long-term and short-term goals, educational success, and financial stability. In this instance, long-term goals are considered a responsibility. It would have to be achieved by the person aiming for that long-term goal. A long-term goal may roughly take anywhere from five to ten years, maybe even up to twenty or thirty. If someone long-term goal is intended to be reached between five, ten, twenty or thirty years, it simply becomes a responsibility to make sure that the specific long-term goal is met. A master’s degree can be looked as a long-term goal. In order to achieve that goal, the person responsible must ensure that degree plan is created and carry out the task outlined in that degree plan. In that degree plan may layout some short-term goals. Short-term goals lead to long-term goals. Short-term goals could be in the realm of personal responsibility as well. Unlike...
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...Personal Responsibility Sheronda Guy Gen/200 Foundations for General Education and Professional Success September 17, 2012 Jeremy Vencel Personal responsibility is the characteristic of accepting complete responsibility for your actions, while acknowledging the possible consequences that those actions may have on others and your academic career. It is the understanding that what you do impacts your overall personal success. There is a direct relation between personal responsibility and college success. In fact, it is the foundation needed to ensure your academic goal is achieved. Because of its importance, it is necessary to develop a preliminary plan for practicing personal responsibility in an educational environment. Having personal responsibility not only determines the level of success one will achieve in society but also academically. College success is closely related to personal responsibility. In order to successfully reach your goal of obtaining a college degree you have hold yourself accountable for how well you perform during your academic career. Accountability is the understanding that your progression while attending college is solely your responsibility and your actions ultimately determine your level of success. Accepting personal responsibility is accepting that whatever the outcome will be is at no one else’s fault but your own. It is the ability to acknowledge that you are personally responsible for everything that you say and do. Canfield...
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...personal and academic success. "Taking personal responsibility means realizing that you can't control certain things, so stop trying." (Stack, 1999 p.1 para 4). I take her definition to mean that we should have the sensibility to recognize the things that are out of our control and the knowledge to take responsibility for doing something about the things that are within our control. Academic success is in our control. Therefore; we should take responsibility for it. As much as we would like to blame others for our failures in life, for us to do that we would have to credit them for our successes as well, and neither is true. We must come to the realization that we are responsible for every choice, and every decision we make in our life. Although we are not responsible for how our life takes off, we are responsible for how it land. We are the pilot in charge of our life journey. Therefore, it’s imperative that we understand that we are personally responsible for the direction we take to achieve academic success. It’s my belief responsibility is a learned behavior that will grow with us from childhood through adulthood. The more mature we become, the more responsible we become,. which leads us into taking responsibility for our personal and academic success Taking responsibility for you education requires motivation, dedication, and determination to succeed academically. It’s your responsibility to take the next steps towards your academic success. The first...
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...Who is to Blame? What makes a student successful? Some would say success is based on the determination of the student or how well of an educator a teacher is. However, society is evolving and focusing on the family unit as being a highly influential factor in the academic career of a student. A person spends between 12-16 years of life in an academic environment. Researchers are examining various theories as to why students may or may not be in school and in furthering their education. However, many people are beginning to feel that the parents of a student are responsible for the academic success or failure of their particular student. One role that parents need to play in the success of their child is enforcing the lessons the child has learned in school at home. By doing simple things like going over the work and making sure the students fully understands the material, and by correcting his or her homework is a helpful way for the parent to enforce the school lessons. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company known as MetLife states “Nine in ten teachers and principals believe that strengthening ties among schools and parents is very important for improving student achievement.” Many parents do not take the time to review a child’s homework and by doing this simple procedure many parents would be able to help their child succeed better in school. Joyce Flood of the Illinois Board of Education spoke on a review of “The relationship between parent involvement...
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...PREPARING FOR PERSONAL ACADEMIC SUCCESS Continuing secondary education is a big step in life. It can be even harder if you have a full time job and family. If I plan to graduate I must come up with a plan and strategy to study and pass classes in order to graduate. Even though being a graduate student, it can be stressful trying to manage school, work and home responsibilities. Understanding how you learn can play a big part in obtaining a degree whether it’s in classroom setting or online. In order to be successful in college you must manage time and stress levels, set realistic goals and strategies for you to achieve academic success. * * Different Learning Styles * In order to fully achieve academic Success, one must know and understand their unique learning style in order to be Academic Successful. There are many ways individuals learn to perceive and interpret information. As a visual learner myself; I do not retain information just by reading alone. I have to color code the main points in my reading, I also have to read two or 3 times before grasping the concept of any reading materials. With color coding it aids me in rewriting and organizing my notes, I seem to retain the information better that way. Unlike the auditory learner, they use the sense of hearing to learn and tend to like live lectures than reading them. Auditory learning would probably be hindrance in me achieving Academic Success because; it would require a lot of my time and energy to learn...
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...management and set personal goals. This will insure academic success. Being self-motivated is the force that drives me to do things. It makes me hold myself accountable for academic success and personal success. Being self-motivated pushes me to achieve my academic goals and pushes me to finish a difficult task. It will help me be sharp and not be influenced by the wrong people, and to be open to positive learning. I will set higher goals than normal people because I am self-motivated. Being self-motivated it will give me the ability to do what needs to be done, without the power or influence from other people. It will give me the strength to complete a task, even when challenging without giving up or someone to encourage me. I will motivate myself not to give up on my academic success, and I will graduate from college. I always told myself that I wanted to go back to school and get a diploma, but I never motivated myself to go back to college. I was always working and taking care of my family, so I always found an excuse not to go back to school. Now that I motivated myself to go back to college, I will not look back and receive my diploma. Self-motivation will be an important factor in my academic success. Having time management is the key to having academic success. Without managing my time due to personal, and work life I cannot be successful in bettering my education. Time management will give me the ability to plan and control how I spend the hours in my day to effectively...
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...Personal Responsibility is Essential for Success John Smith Gen 200 January 25, 2014 Professor Charles Shapiro Lack of personal responsibility will keep some people from achieving goals and dreams. Personal responsibility creates the foundation for success, successful behaviors, and not being dependent on others for success. Some people will blame other individuals or circumstances that may arise instead of their deficient level of personal responsibility for their lack of success. Three main components of personal responsibility that are the core to achieving academic success are time management, stress management, and health. Without following these few key points academics can be more of a challenge than it should be. Taking responsibility for one’s actions is the first step towards building a solid foundation for one’s success. It is likely that one will make some wrong choices, but it is in making wrong decisions that create opportunities to learn valuable lessons. When one admits to being wrong, it creates a vulnerability that is needed to grow in decision-making. Being honest is what will set one free to be able to learn more about one’s self and to become better. Ellis (2011) found “ The principle of telling the truth is applied universally by people who want to turn their lives around” (p. 25). All of these self-evaluation practices will be ineffective without taking action. It is like having a combination to a lock and never using the combination to open that...
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...Aid SATISFACTORY ACADEMIC PROGRESS (SAP) Academic Plan Students who have failed to achieve minimum SAP standards are required to submit an Academic Plan. The SAP Academic Plan must include only coursework that will be taken to achieve the degree or certificate. • The student is required to follow the Academic Plan in order to receive federal, state, and institutional financial assistance. • The student must only enroll in courses listed on his/her Academic Plan, meet minimum completion rates, and make progress each semester. • The student’s progress will be reviewed each semester. Failure to meet the terms of the Academic Plan will jeopardize eligibility for federal, state, and institutional financial assistance. Submit by: Nov 15 (Fall Semester), Apr 1 (Spring Semester), and July 15 (Summer Semester). Failure to submit the plan to the FINANCIAL AID OFFICE will result in loss of eligibility. Section A. Name: STUDENT INFORMATION Student ID: I am not meeting the following SAP requirement(s): GPA Completion Rate Program of Study: Maximum Time Section B. PLAN FOR SUCCESS I plan to use the following resources to aid my success: Academic Advisor Career Center Learning Center Counseling Peer Mentor Student Disability Services V3.27.2015 Tutoring Other__________________________________ Section C. ACADEMIC PLAN (This section must be completed by an Academic Advisor) Instructions for Academic Advisor: Complete...
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...is linked to success in college and in life. Since, it is so important I need to understand what it means to me. Then I will be able to understand how to succeed in life and in college. To do this I can create a personal plan that consists of strategies that will help me succeed. The definition of personal responsibility can be different from person to person. To me it means taking control of my health, emotions, and money. I must be responsible for my actions and accept the consequences for those actions good or bad. Personal responsibility separates me from a child, and it goes hand- in- hand with success. Through this process I will begin to understand my self-more and I will be able to get on the road to success. Personal responsibility and college success are two things that go together. Without understanding and accepting personal responsibility one would not succeed in college. College has been viewed as place of learning and as a student we are supposed to leave our personal lives at home. If we are in tuned to ourselves we can incorporate that into our college lives and use that on our road to success. If we use our personal strengths toward our college work we will be able to perform our best in college, life, and in the workplace. It is intertwined (LeFalle, 2010). My personal plan to practice personal responsibility in my education includes two acronyms; FRED and PAL. FRED stands for fun, rest, exercise, and diet. I need fun in my personal plan to help reduce...
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...relationship between personal responsibility and college success, identification of two areas of improvement as a college level student based on personal, professional, and academic circumstances, specific strategies discovered through research to improve within these areas, and a preliminary plan to practice personal responsibility in my education. Personal responsibilities are the decisions I make on daily basis. Whether they are as simple as getting out of bed in the morning or to exercise or not these are very important decision I choose to make. I have two very important responsibilities that I must take care of each day, my two children. I have a little boy who is six years of age and a little girl who is two and both very active children that I need to be alert and able to keep up with throughout all of their sports and activities. Kyle, my son asks me why I am always on my computer and I said I am going to school to improve our future and hopefully I am showing him that it is never too late to continue our education and I am always telling him no matter how old you are we can continue to learn. I want to set a good example for my children through these responsibilities as discussed so far. Therefore, I must wake up in the morning and care for them. Also to improve my unhappiness and my health exercising is extremely important so I can be there for my children. In correlation with my personal responsibilities college success is also important to me. I have procrastinated for...
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...College Success Course Description: College Success is designed to empower you to be successful through active participation in your education at Clark College. The academic skills and positive mental attitude developed in this course will equip you with the tools for a successful college experience as well as provide tools for successful living. The class will consist mainly of small and large group discussion. There will be some lecture and in class activities to reinforce concepts from the textbook. My belief is that students learn best when they are actively engaged in their own learning; particularly in an environment that is respectful and allows students to feel comfortable participating in discussions. Required Text: Ellis, Dave, (2006) Becoming a Master Student, Twelfth Edition concise The text is a major part of the course and is utilized in every class session. Please bring it to class each time we meet, and be aware that the text is a workbook and the bookstore will not buy it back. Student Learning Objectives for HDEV 117: Students will increase their knowledge and abilities through active learning experiences designed to help them become better college students. Through this process,...
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...on Personal Responsibility and Academic Success Personal responsibility is important in life, especially while going to college. In order to be a successful student, personal responsibility is essential. It is accepting accountability for one's actions and is vital when pursuing an education. Personal responsibility and college success are dependent upon one another. Personal responsibility is accepting accountability for one’s actions. As personal accountability expert Linda Galindo defines it as, “When you’re personally accountable, you stop assigning blame, “should-ing” on people, and making excuses. Instead, you take the fall when your choices cause problems,” (Galindo, 2010). Personal responsibility is not about blaming others for what has gone wrong. For example, if a student received a bad grade on a project, the student can not blame the teacher for giving the bad grade. The teacher did not do the project, the student did; it was the student’s work. The student would need to accept personal responsibility and accountability for the work, and take it as feed back to work harder to get a better grade. Accepting failure is a part of accepting personal responsibility for what has taken place academically. Referring to data collected, 85 percent of an individual’s success is from steps the individual takes for themselves, rather than 15 percent being from other people (Galindo, 2010). Personal responsibility is important when pursuing...
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