...Balancing Values, Responsibilities and School for a Non-Traditional Student Jwendoline Hernandez Foundation for General Education and Professional Success GEN/200 April 28, 2014 Jillian Folger Values and Responsibilities Everyone at a very young age has values and responsibilities instilled in them. They are life lessons, principles and rules we are expected to live by. Ranging from how to live, what is right from wrong, how to treat ourselves and one another. Notwithstanding, as each lives their own lives each develops their own values and duty, amending old and creating new ones. Taking ownership of the consequences from the choices, decisions and actions one makes is considered by many as having personal responsibility. Traditional versus Non-Traditional Students Nowadays, it is more common to see individuals well in their years returning to school after having their own families and having professional experience under their belt. For many weighing their professional ambitions and family duties. Forbus, Newbold, Mehta (2011) conducted a research that reflects on the differences between the traditional and the non-traditional students’ expectations for the college experience. Noting that the non-traditional differ in interest, social activities, and levels of motivations from their counterparts. For the most part any college student, be it the traditional high school graduate or the non-traditional, have set goals entering postsecondary education. The...
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...the learning and knowledge we may need and of course having the right attitude and proper values in facing all the challenges that we may encounter in life. Family is the basic unit of the society, our first school, our first teacher where in we obtained the foundation of our learning. At our early age, our parents never taught us the figures of speech or even idioms; they never tell us the law of gravity or even the logic behind of the law of supply and demand; they did not teach us to find the x and y in math. Instead, the first thing they taught us is how to pray, kissing the hand of elders (Pagmamano) which is sign of being respectful and how to be good with others through giving (generosity). The family is the place where we can have the best learning and that is being a good person. Besides the family, the school is another social unit that gives values education among children. Parents entrust their children to the school to perform significant tasks of developing children's potential to prepare them for active participation in the future. The teacher is the most important element in the educational success of the child in school. But as the child grows in all aspects, changes occur and the best values learned from home slowly fades away and some being neglected. This is due to some factors brought about by the fast changing world. When we develop the moral values of students, we teach them moral intelligence. Moral intelligence is the capacity to understand right...
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...Edited the topic student wanted I come up with an appropriate topic PERCEVED VALUE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: CASE STUDY, APPROACH OF PRIVATE HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUITION. Name: Institution: Remember questionnaire I did re write it whole Abstract The international students’ enrolment in Malaysian private higher education institutions acts as a major contributor to the national economic ability of the higher education institutions. Consequently, this has led to the rise of several studies concerning international students on many aspects, including their perceptions, living experiences, and their behaviors towards the renowned values of the choice of their private higher education institution in Malaysia. In this context, there are very few studies that have looked into international students’ overall satisfaction with their experiences in private higher education institutions. This study is committed to investigate the factors affecting decision making of international students in choosing Malaysian private higher education institutions as a study destination for their postgraduate studies. Sampling chosen for this research are international students currently studying at XX College, one of the leading private higher education institutions in Malaysia. This study contains a theoretical framework...
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...University of Phoenix Material Professional Values for the BSN Student Complete the worksheet with a substantive response to each prompt. Define each term using the course textbooks or a peer-reviewed resource. Describe how you, as a BSN student, demonstrate each value as you interact with patients and other health care providers. Provide specific examples of how your values influence your attitudes and behaviors. Each response must be 100 to 150 words. |Value |Definition |Personal Demonstration | |Altruism |The American Association of Colleges of Nursing |I feel demonstrating altruism in my everyday | | |(2008) has defined the term, Altruism, "as a |practice when interacting with my patients, fellow | | |concern for the well-being of others, including |nurses and amongst other health care providers, goes| | |concern for clients, other nurses, and other |without effort. As a nurse to my patient, I have | | |healthcare providers." |always felt a sense of personal unselfish | | | |responsibility for their well-being while under my | | | ...
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...Raising a Successful College Student Carol Woods GEN/200 In order to be a successful college student personal responsibility must be learned at an early age. Children must learn personal responsibility, time management skills, and family values when they are young. If children develop a strong responsibility foundation they will develop into a successful college student. Personal responsibility is something that is taught to you throughout your childhood and developed throughout your adult life. A child is taught family values daily from the time they begin to walk. Parents begin to pass on their own values system and this is what a person’s responsibility foundation is built on. In order for a student to be successful in their college career they must already have been taught personal responsibility throughout their childhood. Children should be given household chores at a very young age, like picking up their toys, making their beds, and even feeding the family pet, at this age they are exposed to the family values at its core. Children begin to realize what responsibility is through these chores. Experts believe that any type of household responsibilities, are important for kids (Dunnewind, 2004). When they develop into adolescence they should be given more responsibility. School work becomes a priority, social groups draw their interest and now they begin to develop their time management skills. Learning how to navigate between class assignments...
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...Five rules of student engagement for effective university marketing Can marketing help in tackling falling university applications? John Newbold offers tips on attracting your target audience Establish a link between interests and careers The end goal of most prospective university students is not attending lectures for a few years; but eventually to embark on a career and, more specifically, a career they are passionate about. Recent social media coverage has emphasised the point that career success and happiness comes from pursuing what interests you, rather than what might seem a good idea from other people's perspective (teachers / parents / politicians). One video currently doing the rounds on Facebook simply asks the question: "What if money was no object?" When marketing to potential students, universities should draw this link between student passions and potential careers. Higher education institution Birmingham Metropolitan College's latest campaign achieves this well, with the strapline "Let what you love become what you do". Similarly, Staffordshire University has this week launched a new graduate campaign spanning TV, cinema, press, radio and digital advertising. The idea is to show students that Staffordshire University is committed to their success beyond graduation. Don't talk down to prospective students Avoid falling into the trap of applying your own experiences of university to today's students, even if your university days were only five or...
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...Kothari commission (1964-66) says “the destiny of India is being shaped in her class room”, for teachers play a crucial role to mould the students. Due to the low enrolment and high dropout, the quality and the future development become a serious problem confronting the country’s education system. However, the teacher believes they can make difference, change is possible and it is essential to develop an accurate understanding of the factors that influences the dropout of rural students at college level. Christenson & Thurlow (2004) and Dweck (1986) reveal that student dropout is an outcome derived from multiple factors that encompass student, institutional and socioeconomic aspects. Dweck (1986) also found that students perceive dropout as...
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...increases in enrollment. The school board has created a plan for the students as the school is not large enough to accommodate each and every one of them. They have hired experts to redraw school boundaries to be submitted for the following year. Upsetting many students as they will not be able to stay at their present school, several parents have voiced opinions based upon the school district proposed plan. Most of the parents are concerned about the quality of education their children will receive, increased travel time, crossing economic and cultural boundaries, affect on property values, and social effects on children. With the following reasons against the proposed plan, I will address all of the stakeholders and their concerns. This paper will also discuss a developed plan to address stakeholders’ concerns as well as the negotiation strategy used to support the school board’s need to redraw the boundaries with the concerns of the stakeholders. Lastly, the paper will explain how ethics and culture affect the decisions. There are many stakeholders in this situation with the students being redrawn from their current school. The students, school officials, staff, teachers, school district, and even the students’ parents are all stakeholders. The students will be affected by the redrawing as they may be going to a different school and face with different personal issues, including separation from friends. Students may be troubled with the new society, struggle meeting new friends...
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...[pic] TOPIC: INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS’ ATTITUDES ABOUT HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE UK Student: Pham Trang Huyen My Student ID: 77142444 10 weeks Pre-sessional course December, 2013 List of content Abstract 3 1. Introduction 4 2. Literature review 5 2.1. Higher Education in the UK 5 2.2. Teacher-student relationships and the quality of teaching 5 2.3. Different learning styles 6 2.4. Group work 7 2.5. Financial issues 8 3. Methodology 9 4. Results 10 5. Discussion 14 6. Conclusion 16 List of References 17 Appendix 19 Abstract Higher education is a competitive business which produces huge benefits for the UK economy. This paper reveals international students’ attitudes about UK higher education and focuses on direct factors which can affect students’ opinions. Reports of international students’ attitudes already carried out in Leeds Metropolitan University are analyzed and the main findings are emphasized. A total of eighteen international students interviewed provided data on their experience in UK education that involves the challenges they have faced and what they have achieved. The project concludes that not only UK tuition fees but also the quality of education can affect international students’ decision to study in the UK. Therefore measures should be taken in...
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...Homework brings feelings of dread, anxiety, and stress to many students. Successful students often sacrifice their health and well-being for the sake of their academic future. Students can end up sleep deprived if overloaded with homework and can even resort to self-harm and illegal activities to cope with the stress. To avoid having students burn themselves out, teachers should assign no more than fifteen minutes of homework to high school students a day and only assign homework with obvious value. Parents often hear the begrudging complaints from their children about having to sit down for hours of homework after school. These students aren’t focused and engaged in learning; they’re mindlessly completing a given task. In reality, this is not helping the student at all, and only creating an unhealthy attitude toward school. The article “Success with Less Stress” discusses a study...
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...HABITS OF THE STUDENTS FROM FORMAL AND NON-FORMAL SYSTEMS OF EDUCATION IN PAKISTAN Dr Naeemullah Bajwa1 Aijaz Ahmed GUJJAR2 Dr Ghazal Shaheen3 Dr Muhammad Ramzan4 Abstract Study habits mean theme setting of subject to be learned or investigated, and the tendency of pupils or students to study when the opportunity is provided to them. Students can’t use effective study skills, until they are not having good habits. One individual learn more quickly and thoroughly than other due to good study habits. The study was conducted in order to determine the difference between the study habits of students from Formal and Non-Formal systems of education in Pakistan. Five hundred students The Islamia University of Bahawalpur and 500 students from the Bahawalpur region of the Allama Iqbal Open University were taken as sample. A forty item questionnaire on five stages scale was administered to the students and questionnaire was divided into seven clusters i.e. (Time management, Class attendance &participation, General study strategies, Exam preparation, Goal setting & motivation, Textbook reading and Note taking). Data was analyzed by using SPSS XII the reliability of the questionnaire was 0.869(Cronbach’s alpha). Students of formal system are significantly better on time management. Students of non- formal system are significantly better on class attendance and participation. Students of non- formal system are significantly better on general studying strategies. Students of formal system...
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...For our group assignment at the beginning of the semester, we chose to look at students starting college and not finishing a degree. In other words, we considered sociological reasons that students drop out of college. We chose this topic because it is something that we see around us, since so many students choose not to finish college. Although each of us has a different outlook on this topic, since we have different experiences and personal values, we all agree that dropping out is a problem in our society. Originally, we created a fishbone diagram to show what we assumed before research. We said that demographics such as gender and location, resources like income or high school preparation for college, and differences in cultural expectations...
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...from a balance of student self-awareness and community acceptance of others (Beth Morrow). This quote sums up everything that teachers need to do. The world is becoming more and more diverse therefore classrooms and schools are also becoming more and more diverse. “Students of color now constitute approximately 40 percent of all students enrolled in public schools, and this population is expected to grow considerably in the coming years” (Cooper, 2011, p. 189). When students see that their teacher excepts their background other students will as well. For this years, Social Studies clinical I had the privilege to be paired with Mrs. Mueller, a first-grade teacher at St. Anthony’s kindergarten through second...
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...Online education providers are in need of the same mind set to which they must find ways to invest in the student via products or services. These types of investments in my current organization of education is label as student success; not only driving profit by accepting the student in class but over time providing services that will prompt the overall success of the student until graduation. “Most Americans, I believe, would define student success as the ability of a student to support themselves in society after completing the educational process. Our value and belief systems are strongly based on economics and accumulation of material wealth. How often do you hear parents say, “I don’t want my children to have to come home to live with me after completing their education” (Edutopia, 2012)? Online education is simply online education unless the provider is doing something different to give the student a better experience than the market of profit schools. Currently my university has not only grown with more ground campus but has implemented strategies that give a more tangible face to online education. It has been said many times over and over through history, “Your first impression is your last impression”. Thus the new launch of the Orientation Class with our students will be the new way to reach out with the student and provide a more tangible experience. When a student completes their Orientation Class are 20%...
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...distinction of children. 2 * 1. Value of a person doesn't depend on his (her) abilities and achievements; * 2. Every person is able to feel and to think; * 3. Every person has the right to communicate and to be heard; * 4. All people need each other; * 5. Genuine education can be implemented only in the context of real relations; * 6. All people need support and friendship of age mates; * 7. For each student the progress means reaching for success, not failure. * 8. Diversity intensifies all aspects of human life. 3 Inclusive education is based on the following principles: 1. Value of a person doesn't depend on his (her) abilities and achievements; 2. Every person is able to feel and to think; 3. Every person has the right to communicate and to be heard; 4. All people need each other; 5. Genuine education can be implemented only in the context of real relations; 6. All people need support and friendship of age mates; 7. For each student the progress means reaching for success, not failure. 8. Diversity intensifies all aspects of human life. 5 Legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan and other fundamental international documents on human rights provide the principle of equal rights to education for all children in the country. Moving from equal rights to equal opportunities in access to quality education for all children the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the… 6 All the needs of students and teachers to succeed are taken...
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