...Continuing Academic Success GEN/201 09/29/14 Felicia Pettway Continuing Academic Success It was a big decision for me to continue my path to higher education without giving up. Personally, it took me 4 years of community college to finish with my general education program because of the obstacle that came through my path. Being in school my whole life, honestly speaking I was just about ready to give up because of the stress and pressure. Knowing how far I was to my goal and a little help from my family I was able to make a decision to not give up and peruse my goal and attain my diploma. Persistence is key and in knowing that I am going to strive to finish my goal. Setting Goals Setting goals is key when it comes to achieving them. It is crucial to set realistic goals that you know you can accomplish as opposed to setting unrealistic one that you know is far from reach. The University talks a lot about setting goals and achieving them. According to University of Phoenix Goal Setting and Time Management (2014), S.M.A.R.T. goals are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and timely. One personal goals that I set forth for myself is to obtain by Bachelor’s Degree in Business and Management. That will enable me in my career to move the corporate ladder and acquire the position I see myself in. The Writing Process Good writing is essential for success in school and the 21st Century workplace. Writing is a combination of skill that is best...
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...Running Header: Continued Academic Success Continued Academic Success Angela Brantley GEN/201 October 19, 2015 Portia Jones It’s Okay to be Different Even though our styles are different in learning and writing, we all have the same goal to write a good paper. By having so many resources available, we will be able to achieve academic integrity and success. By knowing how we learn, it will allow us to write a good paper. Being able to focus and use all the resources we have available. Learning Styles “Learning Styles differ but so does the learner.” (Walker & Schutte, 2002) One of the approaches to learning styles that is considered the most powerful and simple is the VAK system. It focuses on these three styles: ▪ Visual Learning • Learning by seeing ▪ Auditory Learning • Learning by hearing ▪ Kinesthetic Learning • Learning by doing Knowing the style by which someone learns helps both the learner and the instructor. It allows the student to comprehend the subject and learn the style that works for them. In addition to personality, learning styles are an individual difference factor that represents enduring and stable approaches to processing information (Snyder, 2000). If you are a visual learner, you are more likely to get bored with auditory learning and losing focus with the...
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...University of Phoenix Material Academic Success Answer each question below in at least 75 words per question, reflecting on your current abilities, and identify resources to strengthen your skills. Refer to the videos, readings, and other weekly assignments to help you compose your answers. |Question |Your reflection | |How would you define academic readiness? |academic readiness is someone who understands, or is striving | | |to understand the topic of study. Someone who is academically | | |ready is one with goals outlined, a vision of these goals, and | | |a plan of action to obtain them. While each student learns | | |differently, there are certain characteristics one should | | |possess. Some of the traits of an academically ready student | | |include responsibility and competency, self-direction, and | | |creativity as well as the desire to learn. | |What concerns, if any...
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...Continuing Academic Success February 16, 2015 Foundations for University Success/GEN 201 Dr. Camille Kelly Continuing Academic Success Even though you can be successful without higher education, creating educational goals can contribute to your educational and career success. Also, taking advantage of all the credible and useful resources that the University of Phoenix has to offer, e.g. , the University Library, Center For Writing Excellence, Thesis Statement and Citation Generator, Plagiarism Checker, Work Shops, Alumni Mentor Programs and much more. Planning and managing your time wisely and knowing your learning style will benefit your education and career advancement. The importance of creating educational goals can help you map out a realistic plan for yourself. Without, setting goals and putting a plan in place may lead to failure in both school and career advancements. If you’re new to higher education and have a hectic work or personal schedule consider easing into, choose to attend part-time. (unknown, Succeeding In School-At Any Age, 2015) With a plan, it allows you to figure in study time and assignments completion without being stressed and compromising work ethics and home/personal life. Meeting with an Enrollment and Financial Aid Advisors allows you to budget and prepare for your future finances. This way you can start budgeting or figuring if this would be the right time to further your education. Knowing the cost of your higher educational...
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...Personal Responsibility Christian A. Smith GEN/201 June 30, 2014 Jasmine Rojas Personal Responsibility Personal Responsibility, let’s think about that term for a minute… Done? In a 2009 article from the Brookings Institute titled “The Sequence of Personal Responsibility”, Ron Haskins, a Senior Fellow in Economic Studies writes: “Personal responsibility is the willingness to both accept the importance of standards that society establishes for individual behavior and to make strenuous personal efforts to live by those standards. But personal responsibility also means that when individuals fail to meet expected standards, they do not look around for some factor outside themselves to blame. The demise of personal responsibility occurs when individuals blame their family, their peers, their economic circumstances, or their society for their own failure to meet standards…”(Haskins, 2009) I think that is the best definition of personal responsibility that I have ever seen or heard. Personal Responsibility is of vital importance when attending college, especially as a working adult. So many things can happen in day-to-day life, that one could very easily be tempted to make excuses. Fortunately as a student at the University of Phoenix, I have been given a great deal of support resources to fall back on. These I will use to improve my Career Competencies, make ethical decisions, improve my teamwork skills, and set SMART goals for myself. Excuses will not be tolerated, and failure...
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...Continuing Academic Success Caress Alexander GEN/201 BRANDI MORRELL Continuing Academic Success Success, the favorable or prosperous termination of attempts or endeavors; the accomplishment of one's goals. When I first started this class I didn’t think that it was going to be very useful. I thought that I was going to learn how to study more effectively and maybe learn how plan my schedule better. Little did I know that I would learn life lessons with will stick with me for the rest of my life. I was also force to look at my strengths and weakens. I learned other various things in this course. The first thing that I learned is, that settings goals lead to success, because setting goals help you get to the big picture. You can set long term and short term goals to help you get to where you want to go. Motivation can influence the attitude, perception and persistence of working adults in pursuing higher education towards their learning success. “Motivation influences how and why people learn as well as how they perform. In brief, motivation is paramount to the academic success of working adults in continuing education.” Lee, P., & Pang, Vincent. (2014, April). The influence of motivational orientations on academic achievement among working adults in continuing education. International Journal of Training, (), 5-15. I plan on getting my associates degree in Network Support and becoming a Network Administrator. I love working with computer systems and cannot wait until...
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...The Relationship between Critical Thinking and Ethics Amber Williamson GEN 201 November 23, 2015 Tina Bernard The Relationship between Critical Thinking and Ethics Critical thinking and ethics play a significant role within each other's decision process. They both use each other’s steps and processes to obtain a desired result. Throughout this paper, you will understand what critical thinking and ethics are and the relationship between the two. Critical Thinking Critical thinking is the ability to think rationally about a subject or material. Your brain uses a process to dissect the information into sections, then reconstruct the pieces into new connections. Using critical thinking allows a person to come up with something different based on the original idea that could open new relationships with other ideas. ‘Critical thinking is made up of a process that includes six levels’ (Ellis, 2011, para. page 2). The first level is remembering. In this level, a person focuses on whether or not they can recall important facts about the idea. Examples may be key terms or certain events. The second level is understanding. The big question here is, do I know what the idea is? Can I summarize and put the idea into my words? Level three is applying. In this level, a person needs to be able to take the idea and use it to get the results that they are looking for. On level four it is time to analyze the idea. By doing this, the idea will be broken or...
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...Continuing Academic Success Richard E. Garcia GEN/201 (BSGU1G4422) 4/6/2015 Jeremy NeVille Continuing Academic Success Academic success begins with knowing what you want to achieve and who you want to become. Going back to school after a long time can be frightening and intimidating however we are all capable of success by utilizing our strengths and being aware of our weaknesses. We have many skills that we can use to aid in learning that we have developed though everyday life. There are methods to learning that if used correctly can greatly increase the chances for success such as making future goals. The ability to think critically is essential to becoming a good student. By having good critical thinking skills you will produce great schoolwork and make better choices. The University of Phoenix has a vast amount of resources to aid in student learning. There are strategies to learning and tools to be explored at the university library and writing center. While everyone has different learning styles, establishing educational goals, exploring university resources, employing academic integrity, and developing excellent critical thinking skills leads to academic success. In order to be successful educational goals must be established. Koch and Nafziger (2011) believed that goals affect people’s perceptions of the future. Having goals keeps you on track and makes it clear what it takes to achieve them. According...
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...Personally Responsible Students Katherine Poppell GEN/201 October 27, 2014 David Schemerhorn Personally Responsible Students The phrase “personal responsibility” simply means taking care of ones’ own life in every aspect without succumbing to fears or to the distractions of the outside world. In order to become a master student and achieve the goals a person has set for himself or herself, he or she must first have an internally defined level of personal responsibility. To that end, becoming a master student starts with taking control of ones’ own life. Such control includes becoming fiscally responsible as well as demonstrating emotional maturity. There are two ways to do this, planning and organizing. While some people may find it easy to plan and organize their task, others do not so it may require more work. One has to learn how to be prepared in your studies by setting goals, understanding what your learning style may be, highlighting and underlining your readings and notes; Time management as far as your readings and taking time to understand your studies, and using your critical thinking skills along with communicating your thoughts both verbally and in writing. Goal Setting and Time Management One of the many things we have learned during our introductory course into online school while attending the University of Phoenix is the importance of setting goals, prioritizing them, and the importance of time...
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...CONTINUING ACADEMIC SUCCESS Dale Ray Blackard GEN/201 5/23/2016 Laticia Dezell Continued Academic Success Continuing academic success opens opportunities for advancement and increases monetary value based upon transferred knowledge. Education promotes a person as a dedicated person that does the necessary actions to accomplish the personal preference of the goal desired. One who exemplifies this internal drive receives advancements in the work place. Promotions and added responsibilities are usually given to this type of person. This drive for improvements does not stop at work. This person usually has a very nice home life. The advancements in the home life are shown in the materialistic things such as the clothes you wear and the house one possesses. In fact, continuing education can open up previously closed doors and lead to better opportunities (“Benefits of Continuing Education”, 2016). Educational and Career Goals As I have begun my online college journey, I have changed the desire of just wanting a degree. The adventures of studying over the past several weeks has opened my eyes to the fact that the educational goal of wanting my Bachelor’s Degree is not the only reason that I now want to complete school. I have learned how to better myself through different learning activities and discovered personality traits that will help me advance in my career and in my life decisions. I lost a good paying job because of economic factors. In trying to get another job...
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...Running head: CRITICAL THINKING AND ETHICS CRITICAL THINKING AND ETHICS Cedric E Smith University Of Phoenix Author Note This paper was prepared for GEN/201- FOUNDATIONS FOR UNIVERSITY SUCCESS, Week 3 Assignment taught by KIMBERLY DRAGER. Critical thinking includes clarity, accuracy, consistency, relevance, and fairness. It is the process of actively and skillfully applying, analyzing, or evaluating information gathered from, observation, experience or communication, to reach an answer or conclusion. Critical thinking is self-guided, self-disciplined thinking to attempt to reason. People who think critically consistently attempt to live rationally and reasonably. They utilize the intellectual tools that critical thinking offers like concepts and principles that allow them to analyze and improve thinking. No matter how skilled they are as a thinker, you can always improve your reasoning skills because you can make mistakes in reasoning. There are six steps within the critical-thinking process. Step one is Knowledge that requires someone to be able to identify what is being said: the topic, the issue, the thesis, and the main points. Step two is comprehension, being able to understand the material or information that you read, hear or see. Step three is application which requires you to know what you have read, heard or seen and that you carry out the tasks that apply to what you comprehend to an actual situation. Step four is analysis and that is breaking down...
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...Continuing Academic Success GEN/201 Continuing Academic Success Achieving success is something that many consider to be difficult, sometimes too difficult to be worth even trying. But there are many tools and processes available to help people be successful. By knowing what these tools and processes are, students are able to achieve not only academic success, but also be successful in many other areas of their lives. Setting goals is an important step in achieving success. By recognizing your goals, a person is able to comprehend what is truly important to them. Setting specific goals, rather than general goals, encourages people to work harder to obtain their goals. A few important factors in setting goals include tracking progress, goal importance, complexity of the goal, and commitment (Locke & Latham, 2006). In order to reach your goal, you must first ascertain whether that goal is realistic and achievable. Once you have established this, the next step is to formulate a plan with clear and consistent steps to help you reach your goal. The steps in the plan not only guide you down the path, but also provide encouragement to continue working toward goal achievement as each step is completed. The goals that you set can be in any area of life, including educational and career goals. For example, one educational goal for myself is to maintain no less than a B average in each of my courses. Of course, I would love to maintain an A average, but that goal is not as realistic...
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...Continuing Academic Success Sheri Coleman GEN/201 August 18, 2014 Lindsey Rudolph, Professor Continuing Academic Success According to Curran and Reivich (2011) “How does goal setting increase performance, achievement, and ultimately well-being” (p. 44)? In my opinion, academic success should be included in one’s model for achieving one’s career goals. While some believe continuing academic success is not required to obtain one's ultimate career goal, academic success is achieved by setting goals, fusing one’s learning style with lessons being taught, applying critical thinking skills and utilizing all available resources. During this first course of continuing my education, I’ve learned the tools necessary to become academically successful as well starting on the path to a successful career. Goal Setting Setting goals, leads to success because there’s a plan being put into motion. According to Lock & Latham 2002, “Research indicates that when an individual sets a goal that individual shows increased direct physical effort, cognitive effort on repeated task, self-reported subjective effort, and physiological indicators of effort” (p.44). Choosing the online course to continue my education allows me to move at my own pace. Setting goals is directive; goals reveal the path in which I need to follow. All of these actions lead to positive outcomes. (Curran & Reivich 2011, Lock & Latham 2002, Locke & Bryan 1969). Smaller and easier to attain...
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...Continued Academic Success Samantha White GEN/201 10/01/2015 Tia McMillan Introduction Throughout a person's academic career, there are many good habits to have that will assist in the continued success of future endeavors. These include creating goals, understanding your ethical lens, being able to think critically, write formally, and knowing what resources are at one's disposal to put you on the right path. With knowledge of these habits and perfecting them to your learning level, continued academic success can be reached. Educational and Career Goals Some might not see the importance of making goals when discussing success. In all actuality, setting goals is one of the most important steps in setting out on a path towards success. In the Journal of Student Development it is said that "goals and self-responsibility represent the foundation upon which personal and academic success are built and all other academic and life skills are base" (Hughes & Marsh, 2000, para. 2). Setting goals can help lead to success by allowing you to focus on one thing at a time, and not get overwhelmed by the big picture. By knowing what you want, you can begin to focus on what steps you must take to get there. Personally, my career goal is to become a clinical psychologist. This requires a doctorate, and many years of schooling, licensing, and internships. While a good goal to have, it can be frightening to know that I have all of that ahead of me. In my case, I have broken it down simply...
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...Continuing Academic Success Sylvia Hayes Gen/201 - Foundations for University Success February 9, 2015 Jason Decremer Continuing Academic Success There were so many fears that held me back from going back to school. The cost, time, the fear of failure all played a part in me putting off making such a big decision in my life. Being that I am also married and together we have a 3 year old boy makes the situation even more difficult. Being a mom, wife and working a full-time job is a lot of responsibility and to add one more task to the pile was really pushing it. After much thought and talking to my husband I made the decision to attend University of Phoenix. Going back to school wasn’t an easy decision for me, but setting academic and career goals for myself while also keeping my motivation in mind at all times will help me through this journey. While attending school I have made a conscious decision to be enrolled in school non-stop with no breaks in-between until I graduate. I calculated that I will be enrolled in school for 3 straight years. Setting this specific goal for myself will guide me to success. The fact that I am optimistic and open-minded will ease me through this process. According to Bressler, Bressler, and Bressler (2010) “Optimism many times will be a significant contributor for behavior and can motivate individuals to persist in pursuing goals with enthusiasm” (pp.37-51). I have learned the hard way that as much planning and organizing...
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