...Personal Responsibility is linked to College Success Gen/200 July 1, 2013 Jeremy NeVille Personal Responsibility is linked to College Success As George Washington Carver said, “Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses.” (LeadershipNow, n.d.). Although, people are naturally unable to take responsibility, college success is attainable when an individual accepted personal responsibility. With an early behavioral intervention set at a young age, academic success is easily adaptable and reachable. Continuing higher education such as attending college is an individual’s personal responsibility of choice. Higher Education offers a place for learning and practicing skills such as; setting goals, manage time, resolve conflicts, and learn new skills. Recognizing our potential can advance our ability to gain lifetime-acquired skill for success in college. Accepting personal responsibility is to own up to his or her mistakes. When an individual accepted personal responsibility of his or her actions, he or she takes full control of all the decision-making. Pointing fingers or making excuses for any circumstances are not a trait of an individual who takes personal responsibilities for his or her life. Acknowledging your own mistakes is an admirable trait of a responsible individual. In every family household there are different sets of values and approach on teaching their children personal responsibilities. These children are taught...
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...Lataysia Hamilton Glenn Heights, TX hlataysia@yahoo.com - 469-407-0737 WORK EXPERIENCE Retail Sales Cracker Barrel Old Country Store - DeSoto, TX - November 2014 to Present Responsibilities Try to sale as much items I can, to meet our sales goals each day Accomplishments the impact I had at this job is selling a customer an item and them buying it , but when they realize that the item doesn't suits them they bring it back... Skills Used working at this job you have to have good customer service skills . you have to be there and answering any questions the customer need answers to, you have to know what your talking about when a customer ask you a question about any item. if you don't have the item in your store , you be sure to let them know all the local stores around and if they don't have the item then they can purchase it online on the website.. another thing you have to have good posture while talking to your customers. Pre-Kindergarten Teacher A Bright Beginning Daycare - Ovilla, TX - May 2014 to November 2014 Responsibilities Teach basic skills such as color, shape, number and letter recognition, personal hygiene, and social skills. • Teach proper eating habits and personal hygiene. • Observe and evaluate children's performance, behavior, social development, and physical health. • Organize and lead activities designed to promote physical, mental and social development, such as games, arts and crafts, music, storytelling, and field trips. • Establish clear objectives...
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...but also outside of that circle. Abstract Digital citizenship encompasses a wide range of behaviors with varying degrees of risk and possible negative consequences. Lack of digital citizenship awareness and education can, and has, led to problematic, even dangerous student conduct. If our educational village does not address these issues, the digital culture establishes its own direction, potentially pushing a productive, long-term solution further out of reach. By tapping into the experience of various practitioners and experts in the field this article provides the reader with a number of suggestions that can help the professional to help their students become better digital citizens. Keywords: Digital Citizenship, School Library Media A ccording to Wikipedia (2010), the Nigerian Igbo proverb, “Ora na azu nwa”, translates as “it takes a village to raise a child” (Proverb Question section, para. 6). Whether this popular phrase derives from international cultures or from one’s own experiences in life, it provides a framework for our schools and society to meet a cultural shift in a global society. Creating awareness and enhancing digital citizenship in our society could best be assessed as having reached a pivotal point. Weigel, James, and Gardner (2009) assert that, “the Internet’s potential for learning may be curtailed if youth lack key skills for navigating it, if they consistently engage with Internet resources in a shallow fashion, and/or...
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...Personal Responsibility makes us responsible for the choices and decisions we choose in our own lives. When I observe other individuals not dedicating themselves to their own responsibility it motivates me to excel. I think having a set mind on what we won’t to do with ourselves and the decision we make should be taught to us at the beginning. For example, like the Gerber life commercial. It’s selling life insurance, but it is also preparing the babies with responsibility on their future. They might not understand now, but as they get older everything is pretty much set in order for them to get started on the own path to success. Not everyone have the mind set to provide for certain goals or maybe even have goals set so they can be accomplished. “The problem is how to ground objective judgment about character that appreciate that much is under our control, but some is not” (Maury, Sabini, Silver, 1998, p.9). This mean we can judge people for who they are or for whom they have become. Everyone is not capable of being responsible. I have always been on top of my game when it comes to succeeding in life. Having a goal set or at least of list of goals that we want to achieve or maybe something we look forward to having or owning something throughout life is a start to a great success. I’m striving to maintain my own personal goals in life by working, making conscious decisions and doing what’s best for me and my family. Owning my own home, business, and overall having a great...
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...House should be tidied, clothes need to be washed, and cook the meal, housework make them becomes angry, crumpy and tired. Laura (2012) estimated that parents seem to put too much responsibility on teaching and looking after their kids on the schools. Moms and Dads nowadays are too busy to take a rest and feel pressure on how to balance everything in life. While the busy parents put all their trust on the helps of school, unluckily, some of those schools just formed as the unethical business with the profit on their top of their cores element. Evidence showed on the Global Times (2012) that one kindergarten teacher in China ordered her students to beat up one six-year-old girl in the class to “teach” her how to keep silent in class. The articles detailed the story as the teacher asked the class of 32 students to line up and hit the girl ten times each. Moreover, there is the situation that school manage to keep additional children which is over the standard of students cap per in the classroom (Spencer 2012). The size of class becomes lack of space and conditions for kids to grow and study just because of the profits. The schools ignored the policy and it leads to the fact that with many children under just one or two teachers who can not have capacity to put eyes on every kids. Some parents think that if they spend lots of money to put their children in the expensive kindergarten or private...
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...Renee Shell Ms. Johnston English 50 20 May 2014 Parent Responsibility Daniel Weintraub, author of “The battle against fast food begins in the home,” argues that parents are to blame for their obese children due to over consumption of fast food and lack of exercise. Parents are responsible for teaching and instilling to their children healthy lifestyle basics. Two key basics are activity and proper nutrition regarding the child obesity problems seen today. Children do not introduce themselves to fast food, their parents frequently provide it for them. A common child rearing fallacy is when the young child refuses to eat a balanced and healthy diet, the parent reacts by providing some form of fast food or processed food in order to get the child to eat. The lifelong addiction to fast food and unhealthy eating for many children begins there. Fast or processed food provides far more calories in fats and sugars than a balanced healthy diet does. These excess calories cannot be completely exhausted in the form of energy. The remaining calories convert to body fat and result long term into obesity. Contributing to the progression of obesity is due to the parent’s failure to promote an active lifestyle in addition to the reason for...
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...not realise is that it also destroys the pure innocent minds of the little, chaste children. Many of us people misunderstand the concept of opening the minds of the kids to wars. The main reason why we do so is to make sure that the kids would not start any wars and let the peace on Earth sustain. Without realising the consequences, the erroneous thing that people do now is to open the minds of these children to the basic ways of starting a war. Global peace is a personal choice, hour by hour. Ask yourself, "Am I going to add to the fighting in the world? Or offer up something greater?" If you want to obtain peace, then start changing the world by changing the ways you teach these children. They are supposed to be playing hopscotch, filling in colouring books, having pets, playing hide and seek. What happened to that? I no longer see kids doing these things. Based on what I see on the Internet, parents are starting to neglect their responsibilities and instead of teaching their children good things, they are literally teaching them stuff like how to use a gun and how to use army knives. Despite the fact that these kids are still too small to be carrying out these type of activities, they are also too gullible to barely even think about the ramification of learning these stuff. Parents who train their kids to use a gun are obviously out of their minds. Sure, they could use the guns for their own safety but don’t you think they could actually grow up and start a war? To...
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...Personal responsibility is the ability to encourage my children to become responsible adults. It is important that they respect and show compassion for others, maintain self-respect, and always practice honesty all the time. These steps are necessary to ensure they are model citizens within the community, successful with their education, and future career. In order for them to understand these traits, the example needs to be set at home. Going back to school to finish my education sets a positive example. Since my children are my personal responsibility, then they are also my motivation to excel in college and reach that goal. Children are great listeners and impersonators. When I’m around them, I try my best not to talk in a negative tone, the last thing I need is for them to mimic my bad behavior. Practicing respect is one of the most important traits in teaching your children responsibility. According to Brokenleg (2005) “in order to raise respectful and responsible children, adults must create an environment that meet universal growth needs for belonging, independence, and generosity.” Another personal responsibility is to help my children maintain a sense of self-respect. If they can learn to respect themselves, then they can handle failure. Showing affection and compassion, valuing their input, and their accomplishments, will boost their self-esteem. Engagement in our daily routine and conversation will also help them built up their confident level. This will give them...
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...There is no doubt that there is an epidemic of childhood obesity and bad health running through every neighborhood in this country, and there is a direct correlation between your diet and what you eat and your health and how you feel when you get older, people should be taking more and more responsibility when it comes to their own bodies instead of letting other people decide for them like doctors, nurses, acquaintances, and friends. Sure, it would be easy to blame someone else, continuously make the argument that if it wasn’t because of McDonald’s, or Burger King, or those commercials that I saw on television. I would be the healthiest person on the planet, and I wouldn’t have any health problems today. Instead, I believe that each person should try to live a healthy lifestyle, and teach their kids that while fast food can be fun, and delicious it is meant to feed us not to sustain us. If you want to live a healthy life eating fattening foods four times a day, every day may not be the healthiest choice, but it should be your choice. Don’t let someone else decide what you can and can’t eat and take responsibility for the choices that you make in life, and blame yourself, not everyone...
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...Personal Responsibility for Educational Success GEN 200 January 26, 2014 Dawn Baker-Ingram Personal Responsibility for Educational Success Since we were kids, our family and society teach us how to be behave in a responsible manner. They teach us values in order to feel, think and act with respect for ourselves and others. The objective of this learning is to generate independent and productive individuals that are responsible for their actions and that they work every day to improve, contribute and succeed in all aspects of their lives (family, work, education and community). For me, personal responsibility is the accountability for all activities and decisions we made every day, accepting the consequences that come from those actions and how it impact those around you. Ruyter (2002) states that personal responsibility is to be responsible to themselves and to the necessities and safety of the society. In the present time, studies reveal that people tend to refuse take responsibility for their actions and blame others for their mistakes (Doherty, 1998). This is why is very important that families and schools encourage children, adolescents and young adults to practice personal responsibility in every aspect of their life (Mergler, 2007). Every member of the society has a responsibility with the community, with family, with school and for every action they perform. Each area involves a different set of accountabilities and duties...
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...Personal Responsibility Beverly Wilson Gen/200 March 24, 2013 Nicole Fazande Thesis Statement: Why should People should be held accountable for their action and accept the consequences?. Informal Outline: I. Introduction II. Definition of Personal Responsibility A. What does it mean to me? 1.Personal Responsibility at home 2. Personal Responsibility at work ,school III. Relationship Between Personal Responsibility and college success. A. Investing in yourself 1.Improving your Knowledge 2.Focus on developing Skills IV. Preliminary Plan for practicing Personal Responsibility A. Time management B. Goal setting Personal Responsibility Why should People should be held responsible for their action and accept the consequences?. Why should one beheld personally responsible for their actions? Personal responsibility is defined by the dictionary.com as “the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.” I believe that being responsible is learned behavior and it requires practice and patience. It entails the ongoing assessment of my actions as it relates to the decisions I made and will continue to make regarding home, work and school. My responsibilities at home relates to taking care of my family. This includes everyday duties such as cooking, cleaning, laundry, homework and making...
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...We have entered an era where nobody feels the need to take responsibility for their own behavior. From school age children who don't feel the need to complete their class work assignments to heads of large corporations who take no qualms in engaging in criminal activity at the expense of their clients. They often don't face the consequences directly instead they fall upon others. As written Richard H. Palmer in his book Avatar: "It seems easier to defend actions than to honestly examine them. We are quicker to attack than admit. Admissions require courage!" "When we summon the courage to take ownership of our experiences, to see them just as they are, to feel them, we will recover the blueprints of our lives. We will face our fears and find the transparent beliefs that create them. Becoming more honest with ourselves means introducing more honesty into collective consciousness of the world, and this lays a foundation upon which an enlightened planetary civilization can be built." (Palmer, 1999) Personal responsibility means that you are willing to take responsibility for your actions, and are willing to accept the consequences whatever they should be. There are always outside forces that try to get in the way of our own college successes. The duties from family, work health as well as social can be a great interference when it comes making the right choices and taking responsibility. As a new college student most students will experience a new level...
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...adolescents? Please list them under each category. Physical different growth rates growth spurts awkward and uncoordinated hormones cause restlessness and fatigue In need of physical activity sudden outbursts of activity risky diets causing weight change vulnerable Kids in this stage are exploring their own bodies, which are all growing at different rates. Because they are unsure why they are growing the way they are, they may have sudden outbursts of energy, or solicit themselves to risky health behaviors that could result in unintended consequences. Cognitive - Intellectual different cognitive development rates some moving towards formal operational thinking facing situations that require advancement of cognition wide range of intellectual interests; few need sustaining Prefer active learning and interaction to passive learning and seclusion curious about world and self, not with academic subjects respond positively to opportunities to connect learning to real world develop understanding of current abilities Kids in this stage are exploring their own minds, which are all growing at different rates. Some kids are still only thinking about problems in a concrete fashion. A larger majority of kids are able to think about problems in a formal way, trying to connect the questions being answered to their real life. Research have shown this may be particularly valuable to low-income students to become more engaged with their school environment. Moral Start to think...
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... Dr. Beach this year has been teaching most of the 2012 class algebra 2. The way he handles things may seem harsh at times but inevitably will only lead to our success in life. My first year having Dr. Beach was my sophomore year geometry class. I was so use to flying by all my classes with hardly looking into my notes and homework when Dr. Beaches class started to demand more from us. It started with more homework, a lot of random projects and of course our financial/intelligent conversations. There are many good sides to his class. Some things would be the lessons you learn. He teaches us that we are responsible for our actions and he doesn’t fail us, we only fail ourselves. We basically write out our own grades by deciding to do the homework, extra credit, study for quizzes/tests and taking good notes. Taking responsibility is a HUGE theme in our algebra 2 class this year especially. I feel like everything in Dr. Beach’s class has had a separate meaning then just algebra 2 or geometry. All the home work we receive is just to prepare us for the amount of work in college and our future jobs. The quizzes and tests are preparing us for the responsibilities of using our skills and abilities then turning them into something greater. The lessons are to help us comprehend and understand complex and even basic things. Some negative sides to Dr. Beach’s methods would be the feeling that algebra 2 is our only class and keeping up with...
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...surveyed around 5400 school kids in each province and territory of Canada in 2014, they discovered that the majority of the kids in grades four through eleven had their own cell phone, while nearly one in four of the youngest children owned a mobile device. Having monitored cell phones in the classroom to use for schoolwork are very useful for teaching, considering many, many kids come to school which is not uncommon, allowing cell phone usage would make accessing the interest much easier and help schools save money. Not to mention, cell phones can help students be or become more organized. First of all, most students do not carry a paper planner or agenda. We all know that many of the agendas given out in the beginning of the year end up in the back of school lockers, at home in a closet or the trash. We need to incorporate their cell phones and or iPod Touch devices as their planner. That way, teachers can give them homework reminders, let them poll, and study using these devices. Having since it integrates with the personal calendar on the device, so students can be even more organized. In addition, cell phones make kids safer. They’ll be able to contact people or have people able to contact them when needed or in case of an emergency. GPS systems in our phones have also been used to our parents’ advantage. It would be very helpful if schools had SMS notification services for this reason. Similarly, it lets sensitive issues stay private. Many kids and some...
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