...Axia College Material Appendix B Goal Setting Defining Goals Simply stated, goals are outcomes or results that an individual wants to achieve in a stated period of time. Goals require prioritized steps for successful achievement and must align with an individual’s priorities. Misaligned goals often lead to unfulfilled outcomes. Putting goals into writing and reviewing them daily allows the goal-setter to more effectively visualize the accomplishment of the goal. Goals may be set in various areas of life, such as career, personal development, family, friends, finances, health and wellness, leisure time, physical environment, and spirituality. Goals may also span a variety of time periods. Some may be long-term of 3 to 5 or more years. Others are midterm for 1 to 3 years. Still others are more immediate and short-term for 1 to 12 months. Benefits of Goal Setting Creating goals provides structure and purpose for personal, academic, and professional activities. Individuals that follow effective goal-setting strategies report that they experience less stress and anxiety, concentrate better, perform better, and are more satisfied in their work and personal lives. SMART Goals For goals to be effective, they need to include action words that explicitly describe the desired outcome. Effective goals also include SMART elements. The SMART elements of a goal are: • Specific—Specify, in detail, exactly what is to be accomplished. Goals that are vague do not...
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...University of Phoenix Material Reliable Sources Worksheet Locate three sources in the University Library on a topic of your choice. Provide the required information for each sources. Source 1 Author: Cecil M. Freeburne Date: October 1, 1954 Title: College and Life Publication: Journal; Peer Reviewed Journal Peer Reviewed? Yes What words did you use to find this article? College Life What type of article is this (research, summary, reflection, essay, etc.)? Journal Did this article include an abstract? Yes Summarize the article (75 to 100 words) This article gives insight in life before and after college life. It give you thing to consider before starting college and also how to be prepared when starting college. It gives you a better insight on what to expect after college life and other ways to view what may be in store after college life. The article helps to have a better prospective of how to balance everyday life and college life. Source 2 Author: Bohn, Annette & Berntsen, Dorthe Date: October 1, 2012 Title: Future Is Bright and Predictable: The Development of Prospective Life Stories Across Childhood and Adolescence Publication: Journal; Peer Reviewed Journal Peer Reviewed? Yes What words did you use to find this article? Life What type of article is this (research, summary, reflection, essay, etc.)? Journal Did this article include an abstract? Yes, this article includes an abstract Summarize the article (75 to 100 words) The article outlines when a child develops...
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...Associate Level Material Appendix A Communication Styles Worksheet You spent the past few days exploring the resources available to students at University of Phoenix, and you want to share what you learned with a friend who is interested in enrolling. * Write a 150- to 200-word e-mail to your friend summarizing the resources available to students. * * I just enrolled into school online with the University of Phoenix for a Health Care Administration and Medical Records. The resources that they give students access to is awesome. I was exploring their website and they have so many different programs you can use to help you with writing, math or whatever you need help with. They also have these cool classes that are like workshops, that help people with different problems, for example, they have a workshop to help you with learning and understanding their APA format. I have never heard of this format and I did not understand it until I took this class. Now I’m still a little iffy with it, but they have a program that you can submit your paper and it will let you what’s wrong with it and what you should do to change it. You should so check it out, it’s fast and easy. Let me know what you think. * * * You asked your facilitator to review your e-mail draft. She liked what you wrote and asked you to write a summary to post in the class forum for the other students to read. Write a 150- to 200-word summary for your class of the resources available...
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...Associate Program Material Appendix F Reading Strategies Worksheet Identify two reading goals, one short-term and one long-term. • Long-term reading goal: Is to read a chapter without stopping and comprehend the whole chapter. • Short-term reading goal: Is to read with understanding. Write a 100- to 150-word response to each of the following questions: • How do you currently approach the weekly readings in the course? When I get read to read the chapter and assignments for this course I usually print out the work and chapters. Once I get everything printed out I will go to the kitchen table when the house is quiet and proceed with the reading. I would use my highlighter pen to mark any important information or facts that I feel I would need for review when I get ready to study. I also break the reading up into parts reading a couple of sections and taking a break to recollect on what I have just read, so I want get overwhelmed with so much information at once. • How might you incorporate three of the suggestions covered this week into your study time? Three suggestions covered this week I will include in my study plan is previewing, developing my vocabulary, and monitor my reading. I will use previewing before I began to start reading I will look over the chapters and the section heading to determine what information and facts I already know about the subject so it would be too hard for me to comprehend that section. Developing my vocabulary would...
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...University of Phoenix Material Effective Study Habits Worksheet Review Phoenix Career Plan results of Career Plan Building Activity: Work Culture Preference, respond to the following in 50 to 100 words each: 1. Describe your ideal study environment. My ideal study environment would be a safe and comfortable area free from distractions. I would want to make sure that I have all that I would need to stay organized and be able to do my best work or studying. When I am relaxed and able to write out my ideas I am usually able to complete my assignments in a timely manner. 2. List some of the distractions that might hinder your study progress or your performance in an online classroom. Some of the distractions that might hinder my progress in an online classroom are watching TV, eating with my family, listening to music, interacting with my children, talking on the phone, or getting tired. Not getting the proper amount of sleep can cause me to become unfocused and I will not be able to complete my studying or assignment. 3. What actions can you take to manage and eliminate distractions? The actions that I take to manage and eliminate my distractions are making sure that I get enough sleep the night before, eating dinner before I start to study, turning my ringer off on my phone, spend time with the kids before I study and recording or just missing my TV shows. 4. How will you apply your personal learning style? How does your personal Learning style affect your...
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...Appendix A Communication Style worksheet Summarizing the resources by e-mail: Hi Friend, I have just enrolled at the University of Phoenix on-line program and I am very excited. UOP provides great services and resources. Some of the resources they offer are Student Text Resource, Associate Level Writing Style Handbook, Toolwire Learnscape Student Resource and Transcript, Center for Mathematics Excellence (CME), Center for Writing Excellence (CWE), Reference and Citation Generator, Grammar and Writing Guides, Learning Toolkit and Live Math Tutoring. This is my first on-line course and I was blown away with the fact they offered a three weeks orientation to help new students to become familiar with the University’s on-line program. I like the fact that there is a discussion board or forum where the students get a chance to intermingle with each other and discuss issues posted by the instructors. I would recommend UOP to anyone who is interested in on-line learning. I feel very excited and everyone is very friendly and helpful. You would love attending UOP on line classes. Summary Appendix A: Welcome Present and Future on-line students to University of Phoenix. The staff and auxiliary staffs are extremely helpful and friendly. This is my first my very first on-line class and I am so happy to be a part of the University of Phoenix family. Once you have decided on entering school and you contact the University of Phoenix; they are ready and willing and capable of assisting...
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...Home > Career Plan > Reasoning Aptitude > Survey [pic]Focused Your profile shows you could work well in careers where success comes from applying practical skills and where thinking is used mostly to solve practical problems. You are likely to be attracted to very practical jobs and careers. • Strengths • Opportunities |Competencies | |Ways to | | | | |Improve | | |Logical Thinking |[pic] |13 Tips |[pic]Add to Career | | | | |Plan[pic] | | | | |Updating...Added to | | | | |Career Plan | | | | | | | | | | | |Logical ThinkingAnalyzes numerical data| ...
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...What were the outcomes of your MyFoundationsLab Path Builder? My outcome for the My Foundation Lab Builder was somewhat better than I expect because it has been so long since I've been in school. I received mastered of assessment marks on The craft of writing and Punctuation, Mechanics, and Spelling. However my marks on Sentence Skills were very low and I need to study to improve my rating on this subject matter. How do the skills apply to your academic life? I do believe these skills or lack of skills will be very important to my academic life and academic success. It shows me what I need to work so I will be better able to do my writing assignments. Working and improving these skills will help me get better grades in class. It will also save me time when it comes to doing my assignments since I will not need to have my worked looked over as much before submitting them for grades. How do the skills apply to your professional life? I do believe having great writing skills are important in the professional life as well. Having bad writing skills looks bad on you especially if you sent out emails, word presentation or your needed to post reports. It would probably stop you from getting an advancement or higher wages. I think having great writing and communications skills are the only way you will be able to get ahead in your professional life. Were you surprised by the results? Why or why not? To be honest I was surprise in a positive way in the outcome of my...
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...University of Phoenix Material Effective Study Habits Worksheet Review Phoenix Career Plan results of Career Plan Building Activity: Work Culture Preference, respond to the following in 50 to 100 words each: 1. Describe your ideal study environment. My ideal study environment would be a nice quiet place with no Distractions like: my kids asking me to do something for them every 5 minutes or a place with no white noise like a fan or the air pump in my fish tank. My ideal study environment would have a comfy chair with lumbar support a quiet temperature controlled room and the proper lighting for reduce visual stress. 2. List some of the distractions that might hinder your study progress or your performance in an online classroom. Distractions that hinder my study progress and or performance are: having to get up in the middle of studying to get somebody a drink, clean my house or if an uninvited guest drops in to say ‘hi.” Two other examples would be a telemarketer calling or unexpected repairs to my home. 3. What actions can you take to manage and eliminate distractions? Some actions I could take to manage these distractions are to stay up late or get up early when everybody else is sleeping, so I get some piece and quiet. I could inspect my home daily to look for things that may require my attention and get them taken care of ahead of time. 4. How will you apply your personal learning style? How does your personal...
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...Associate Program Material Appendix J Reliable Sources Worksheet Locate two sources in the University Library on a topic of your choice. Provide the required information for both sources. Source 1 • Author: Milgrom P,Sutherland M,Shirtcliff RM,Ludwig S,Smolen D • Date: 2010 Feb 18 • Title: Children's tooth decay in a public health program to encourage low-income pregnant women to utilize dental care. • Publication: BMC Public health Write a 100- to 150-word response to each of the following questions: • Is the source reliable? How do you know? Yes, the source is reliable as the authors are established authors. They have published the journal after conducting a survey of low income pregnant women in Klamath County, Oregon. They also conducted camps where women from low income groups were given free and regular dental check up so as to prevent the transmission of infectious bacteria from mother to the infant. This is also conducted at other counties, and a statistical analysis of the research and test conducted were studied. The results showed that children of mother in Klamath County were 1.5 times more likely to caries free than the children of mothers of other counties. • Is the information relevant to the topic? Yes, the information is very much relevant to the topic. The tests conducted and the graphs produced from statistical analysis show the results as positive. • Does the information reflect a bias on the author’s part? If...
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...Associate Level Material Appendix A Communication Styles Worksheet You spent the past few days exploring the resources available to students at University of Phoenix, and you want to share what you learned with a friend who is interested in enrolling. Write a 150- to 200-word e-mail to your friend summarizing the resources available to students. Hi friend. I heard that you might be interested in enrolling for the school I am attending. I figured that I’d give you some more information about what this school is all about and why I chose it. The online school has all kinds of features to assist you throughout your educational career. One of the coolest features is called WritePoint. Consider WritePoint your own personal proofreader. After you’re done writing a paper, submit it to WritePoint and it will insert comments to let you know what might need to be fixed or might suggest something that could sounds better. Another great tool is the Riverpoint Writer. I anticipate this tool will help me a lot on my research papers. What it does is takes information from your references and will turn it into an actual citation. I think it’s pretty neat. Anyways, let me know if you have any questions. You asked your facilitator to review your e-mail draft. She liked what you wrote and asked you to write a summary to post in the class forum for the other students to read. Write a 150- to 200-word summary for your class of the resources available to students. Remember...
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...Associate Level Material Appendix E Collaboration Worksheet Write a 100- to 150-word response to each of the following questions: • What are the advantages of having diversity in a collaborative learning environment? Students learn to work with all types of people. During small-group interactions, they find many opportunities to reflect upon and reply to the diverse responses fellow learners bring to the questions raised. Small groups also allow students to add their perspectives to an issue based on their cultural differences. This exchange inevitably helps students to better understand other cultures and points of view. Knowing of the differences. When questions are raised, different students will have a variety of responses. Each of these can help the group create a product that reflects a wide range of perspectives and is more complete and comprehensive. Students learn to relate to their peers and other learners as they work together in group enterprises. This can be especially helpful for students who have difficulty with social skills. They can benefit from structured interactions with others. Everyone has an opportunity to contribute in small groups. Students are apt to take more ownership of their material and to think critically about related issues when they work as a team. How might factors such as diversity, attitude, learning, and work styles affect collaboration? I believe that teamwork makes the dream work. With different diversity...
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...Associate Level Material Appendix F Reading Strategies Worksheet Identify two reading goals, one short-term and one long-term. • Long-term reading goal: Become proficient and efficient reader • Short-term reading goal: Determine what reading strategies work for me and which do not. Write a 100- to 150-word response to each of the following questions: • How do you currently approach the weekly readings in the course? Currently my approach is a bit lazy. I will skim through each chapter and pick out the important parts. Those parts I will read, after reading a question I will go back to the reading and re read what I need to. I think I might have to reconfigure my approach and just read through the material the first time, take notes and use highlighting methods to comprehend the readings more. I find that the readings have been fairly easy so far and that may be giving me a false sense of confidence, so rather than being hit by surprise later I will be proactive and start using these methods now. • How might you incorporate three of the suggestions covered this week into your study time? I learned a lot about reading strategies and the best one I see that can be incorporated immediately is highlighting key sentences or phrases. I can also use the reading with concentration method, by removing myself from any and all distractions while reading I believe I will comprehend more information that I read. Last note taking and using flash cards...
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...Associate Level Material Appendix G Ethical Actions Worksheet Was there anything in either the University Of Phoenix Student Code Of Conduct or the Student Code of Academic Integrity that surprised you? If so, what was it? Why were you surprised? If not, why not? * * There wasn’t anything in either handbook that took me by surprise. From the readings this is every day practices if you are a person with any kind of ethics, morals or values. You should take pride in yourself, and your school. In everyday life we all have rules and regulations that one must follow; I don’t see the student code of conduct materials any different from any other rule that needs to be followed. Over time, ethical leadership shapes a culture that governs itself according to shared values. These codes of conduct, academic integrities, and rules must be in place for community structure. Without these rules in place there would be no order on or off school campus. We are all adults and must act as such we should not need anyone to tell us how we should or should not act. * * * What did you learn about the behaviors considered important for an ethical learner or student in the University of Phoenix learning community? * Sensibility is a very important behavior for a student at the University of Phoenix. A student may get upset about something written but there sensibility will keep them from making an issue of it, and just from reading a few of the post on phoenix...
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...Associate Level Material Appendix F Reading Strategies Worksheet Identify two reading goals, one short-term and one long-term. • Long-term reading goal: • Short-term reading goal: Write a 100- to 150-word response to each of the following questions: • How do you currently approach the weekly readings in the course? First I start by reading the syllabus, Highlight the main important areas then go in to the material and separate the pages……. So when I have time I can read and go thru and most likely follow not in that exact order but now as I been reading I can at least sort it out in order. 1. Previewing: Slowly page by page to be able to see how the content extended is 2. Marking: Before the course I did not marked nothing but now I try to mark the main content discussed on class or more closely related to the weekly questions. 3. Reading with Concentration: This is the time when I take advantage of brake times or just simply night time after every one is sleep to be able to concentrate and keep myself away from any situation that will distract me from what I need to focus. 4. Reviewing: right now I usually don’t do it but after reading the plan for active reading I am trying to do it. • How might you incorporate three of the suggestions covered this week into your study time? I can perhaps practice mapping more often more like index cards on a notebook; and try to use more the lab and electronic devices tools that the university...
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