Good Sportsmanship

The Importance of Good Sportsmanship

Sportsmanship is important depending on the way most people react to it. Examples of good sportsmanship are:

·      Being fair

·      Don’t care about winning

·      Always helps out

·      Never brags

 

Bad sportsmanship is not very good. Examples of bad sportsmanship are:

·      Cheating

·      Only care about winning

·      Not fair

·      Being disrespectful

·      Constantly bragging

 

Bad and good sportsmanship don’t go along with each other for their differences.

Student Success Statement

 Student Success Statement

“We need the courage to start and continue what we should do and the courage to stop what we shouldn’t do”

-Richard L. Evans

 

 

Reflection:

If you’re doing well, keep doing good. If you’re doing badly, stop doing bad and go into doing good.

Student Responsibilities Part 3

Student Responsibilities

                           Part 3

 

What is important to you is that you, as you start to reach milestones in your ambitions, you appreciate your own achievements. It is a boost, of course, if others appreciate what you have done too, but appreciating yourself will strengthen your self- belief, and reinforce your determination to succeed.

Some of the key characteristics you will find in those who are successful are perseverance, prepared to research, plan and work hard, practice a lot even when things do not seem to be going well, and an ability to recover and learn from setbacks. At the outset of whatever it is you are trying to succeed in, a strong vision of your future, planning, and setting yourself achievable targets can all play an important role.

If you feel you do not naturally have all those characteristics, then do not despair. Each of them can be accomplished by your own application. You can use meditation and visualization techniques to initiate your vision, and they can certainly be learnt both for that purpose and for each step you take to reach your goals. Setting goals and objectives can be a personal or business technique that can be learnt. You can develop inner strength to succeed if you apply yourself to doing just that; that will enable you to recover from setbacks more easily.

Students: These are YOUR Responsibilities!

CHOOSE the RIGHT

Student Responsibilities Part 1

Student Responsibilities

Part 1

Students have the right to seize the responsibility for their own destiny and should be encouraged to dos so. With every right comes responsibility.

1.   I have the responsibility to come to every class prepared to listen, to participate, and to learn.

2.   I have the responsibility to read the text carefully, noting important ideas and rephrasing concepts in my own words.

3.   I have the responsibility to work examples in the textbook ad those given in class.

4.   I have the responsibility to consult other students, the teacher, an assistant, and other resources whenever I need the extra help.

5.   I have the responsibility to understand that the teacher is not primarily responsible for making me understand that the teacher is not primarily responsible for making me understand, but that it is my job to study and to learn.

6.   I have the responsibility of keeping an open mind and trying to comprehend what the teacher is trying to get across.

CHOOSE THE RIGHT  

Successful Students Part 3

Successful Students

Part 3

7. Successful students understand that actions affect learning. Successful students know their personal behavior affect their feelings and emotions that in turn can affect learning.

If you act in a certain way that normally produces particular feelings, you will begin to experience those feelings. Act like you’re bored, and you’ll become bored. Act like your disinterested, and you’ll become disinterested. So the next time you have trouble concentrating in the classroom, “act” like an interested person: learn forward, place your feet flat on the floor, maintain eye contact with the professor, nod occasionally, take notes, and ask questions. Not only will you benefit directly from your actions, your classmates and professor may also get more excited and enthusiastic.

8. Successful students talk about what they’re learning. Successful students get to know something well enough that they can put into words. Talking about something, with friends or classmates, is not only good for checking whether or not you know something, it’s a proven learning tool. Transferring ideas into words provides the most direct path for moving knowledge from short-term to long-term memory. You really don’t “know” material until you can put it into words. So, next time you study don’t do it silently. Talk about notes, problems, readings, etc. with friends, recite to a chair, organize an oral study group, pretend you’re teaching your peers. “Talk learning” produces a whole host of memory traces that result in more learning.     

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

     “Decisions Determine Destiny”

Thomas S. Monson

 

 

 

Reflection:

The decisions you make in life determine your future. Your decisions make you succeed your destiny in a good way or bad way.

Successful Students Part 2

Successful Students                                                     Part 2

4. Successful students learn that a student and a teacher make a team. Most teachers want exactly what you want: they would like for you to learn the material in their respective classes and earn a good grade.

Successful students reflect well on the efforts of any teacher; if you have learned your material, the instructor takes some justifiable pride in teaching. Join forces with your instructor, they are not an enemy, you share the same interests, the same goals – in short, you’re teammates. Get to know your professor. You’re the most valuable players on the same team. Your jobs are to work together for mutual success. Neither wishes to chalk up a losing season. Be a team player!

5. Successful students don’t sit in the back. Successful students minimize classroom distractions that interfere with learning. Students want the best seat available for their entertainment dollars, but willingly seek the worst seat for their educational dollars.

Students who sit in the back cannot possibly be their teacher’s teammate (see no.4). Why do they expose themselves to the temptations of inactive classroom experiences and distractions of all the people between them and their instructor? Of course, we know they chose the back.

CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!     

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.”

-Abraham Lincoln

 

 

Reflection:

Being honest is better than winning. Always be beside the person that always choses the right.

Successful Students Part 1

Successful Students

Part 1

Successful students exhibit a combination of successful attitudes and behaviors as well as intellectual capacity. Successful students

1. Successful students are responsible and active. Successful students get involved in their studies, accept responsibility for their own education, and are active participants in it!

Responsibility means control. It’s the difference between leading and being led. Your own efforts control your grade, you earn the glory or deserve the blame, you make the choice. Active classroom participation improves grades without increasing study time. You can sit there, act bored, daydream, or sleep. Or, you can actively listen, think, question, and take notes like someone in charge of their learning experience. Either option costs one class period. However, the former method will require a large degree of additional work outside of class to achieve the same degree of learning the latter provides at one sitting. The choice is yours.

2. Successful students have educational goals. Successful students have legitimate goals and are motivated by what they represent in terms of career aspirations and life’s desire. Ask yourself these questions: What am I doing here? Why have I chosen to be sitting here now? Is there some better place I could be? What does my presence here mean to me? Answers to these questions represent your “Hot Buttons” and are, without a doubt the most important factors in your success as a college student.         

Characteristics of a Successful Student

   Characteristics of a Successful Student

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Many students do not know what it takes to be successful in the educational environment. They understand good and bad grades in a general way, and they sense that they should attend classes, but that is where their knowledge begins and ends.

Most instructors know what a good student is – and is not. For one thing, a good student is not necessarily the most intelligent individual in the class.

The following is a list of some characteristics of good students. This list is a description of what a hard-working student does and what a teacher likes to see. By learning these characteristics, you may better understand the day-to-day and class-to-class behavior of successful students. The idea is to prove you with guidelines you can follow which will help you get down to the business of becoming a serious, successful student.

1.   Successful students attend classes regularly. They are on time. They listen and train themselves to pay attention. If they miss a session, they feel obligated to let the instructor know why before class begins if possible, and their excuses are legitimate and reasonable. They make sure they get all missed assignments (by contacting the instructor).

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement   

“Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all.”

--Benjamin Franklin

 

 

Reflection:

Beauty, strength, and riches aren’t important except for what’s right in your heart.

50 Habits of Successful People

50 Habits of Successful People

Habits 48-50

48. They finish what they start. While so many spend their life starting things that they never finish, successful people get the job done—even when the excitement and the novelty have worn off. Even when it ain’t fun.

49. They are multi-dimensional, amazing, wonderful complex creatures (as we all are). They realize that not only are they physical and psychological beings, but emotional and spiritual creatures as well. They consciously work at being healthy and productive on all levels.

50. They practice what they preach. They don’t talk about theory, they live the reality.

There you have it. Be familiar with the 50 habits of successful people and become super successful yourself. Develop these habits and you will enjoy the journey of life. You will experience valleys of low and mountain peaks of high achievement. But most of all, you will have peace, and there is no substitute for peace within your heart and soul. Nothing can take the place of peace. CTR brings happiness and peace. CTW brings sadness, misery and bondage.  

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“Right is right, even if everyone is against it. Wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it”

-William Penn

 

 

Reflection:

Right is still right even if other people don’t like it. Wrong are still wrong even if other people appreciate it.

50 Habits of Successful People

      50 Habits of Successful People

    (Habits 44-47)

44.  They don’t rationalize failure. While many are talking about their age, their sore back, their lack of time, their poor genetics, their ‘bad luck’, their nasty boss and their lack of opportunities (all good reasons to fail), they are finding a way to succeed despite all their challenges.

45. They have an off switch. They know how to relax, enjoy what they have in their life and to have fun.

46. Their career is not their identity, it’s their job. It’s not who they are, it’s what they do.

47. They are more interested in effective than they are in easy. While the majority look for the quickest, easiest way (the shortcut), they look for the course of action which will produce the best result over the long term.

CHOOSE THE RIGHT   

Student Success Statement

     Student Success Statement

“It may make a difference to all eternity whether we do right or wrong today.”

-James Freedman Clark

 

 

Reflection:

If you make a bad choice, it may affect you later in life. But if you make a good choice, it can affect you much more well in life.

A boy named Ian

Reflection:

A boy named Ian was at a baseball game and he caught a baseball, but noticed a little boy that wanted the ball as well and Ian felt bad so he gave the ball to the little boy. After that, people thought what he did was a great way of choosing the right and as a reward he received a contract to come to a baseball game and an autographed baseball bat. He had a great feeling inside of him and it was him being proud of what he did.

50 Habits of Successful People

50 Habits of Successful People

Habit 36-43

36. They have a big engine. They work hard and are not lazy.

37. They are resilient. When most would throw in the towel, they’re just warming up.

38. They are open to, and more likely to act upon, feedback.

39. They don’t hang out with toxic people.

40. They don’t invest time or emotional energy into things that they have no control of.

41. They are happy to swim against the tide, to do what most won’t. They are not people pleasers and they don’t need constant approval.

42. They are more comfortable with their own company than most.

43. They set higher standards for themselves (a choice we can all make), which in turn produces greater commitment, more momentum, a better work ethic and of course, better results.

CHOOSE THE RIGHT

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“It’s not living that matters, but living rightly.” Sorcrates

 

 

If you do something right you will have a good feeling for the rest of your life. By living rightly, you will have a better life than others who don’t.  

     

50 Habits of Successful People

50 Habits of Successful People

(Habits 31-35)

31. They are secure. They do not derive their sense of worth of self from what they own, who they know, where they live or what they look like.

32. They are generous and kind. They take pleasure in helping others achieve.

33. They are humble and they are happy to make mistakes and to apologize. They are confident in their ability, but not arrogant. They are happy to learn from others. They are happy to make others look good rather than seek their own personal glory.

34. They are adaptable and embrace change, while the majorities are creatures of comfort and habit. They are comfortable with, and embrace, the new and the unfamiliar.

35. They keep themselves in shape physically, not to be mistaken with training for the Olympics or being obsessed with their body. They understand the importance of being physically well. They are not all about looks; they are more concerned with function and health. Their body is not who they are, it’s where they live.   

     

50 Habits of Successful People

50 Habits of Successful People

              (Habits 21-30)

21. They don’t believe in, or wait for fate, destiny, chance or luck to determine or shape their future. They believe in, and are committed to actively and consciously creating their own best life.

22. While many people are reactive, they are proactive. They take action before they have to.

23. They are more effective than most at managing their emotions. They feel like we all do, but they are not slaves to their emotions.

24. They are good communicators and they consciously work at it.

25. They have a plan for their life and they work methodically at turning that plan into a reality. Their life is not a clumsy series of unplanned events and outcomes.

26. Their desire to be exceptional means that they typically do things that most won’t. They become exceptional by choice. We’re all faced with life-shaping decisions almost daily. Successful people the decisions that most won’t and don’t.

27. While many people are pleasure junkies and avoid pain and discomfort at all costs, successful people understand the value and benefits of working through the tough stuff that most would avoid.

28. They have identified their core values (what is important to them) and they do their best to live a life which is reflective of those values.

29. They have balanced. While they may be financially successful, they know that the terms money and success are not interchangeable. They understand that people, who are successful on a financial level only, are not successful at all. Unfortunately we live in a society which teaches that money equals success. Like many other things, money is a tool. It’s certainly not a bad thing, but ultimately; it’s just another resource. Unfortunately, too many people worship it.

30. They understand the importance of discipline and self-control. They are strong. They are happy to take the road less traveled.

              CHOOSE THE RIGHT

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“Ask yourself is it right or wrong and act accordingly.”

                            Otto Graham Jr.

 

 

Reflection:

Before you do something you have to ask yourself if its the right thing to do, or not and just act on your decision. Always ask yourself , if it is the right thing to do or the wrong thing to do and act upon your decision.

50 Habits of Success

50 Habits of Successful People

                            Habits 11-20

11. They align themselves with like-minded people. They understand the importance of being part of a team. They create win-win relationships.

12. They are ambitious; they want amazing—and why shouldn’t they? They consciously choose to live their best life rather than spending it on autopilot.

13. They have clarity and certainty about what they want (and don’t want) for their life. They actually visualize and plan their best reality while others are merely spectators of life.

14. They innovate rather than imitate.

15. They don’t procrastinate and they don’t spend their life waiting for the ‘right time’.

16. They are life-long learners. They constantly work at educating themselves, either formally (academically), informally (watching, listening, asking, reading, student of life) or experientially (doing trying)… or all three.

17. They are glass half full people- while still being practical and down-to-earth. They have an ability to find the good.

18. They consistently do what they need to do, irrespective of how they are feeling on a given day. They don’t spend their life stopping and starting.

19. They take calculated risks- financial, emotional, professional, and psychological.

20. They deal with problems and challenges quickly and effectively; they don’t put their head in the sand. They face their challenges and use them to improve themselves. When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

                     CHOOSE THE RIGHT      

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what’s right.” Brigham Young

 

 

Reflection:

It probably means that if you do what is right, you really feel free. In other words, if you do what is right, it can lead to your success and independence.   

50 Habits of Success

50 Habits of Successful People

(hABITS 1—10)

1.      They look for and find opportunities where others see nothing.

2.      They find a lesson while others only see a problem.

3.      They are solution focused.

4.      They consciously and methodically create their own success, while others hope success will find them.

5.      They are fearful like everyone else, but they are not controlled or limited by fear.

6.      THEY ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS—THE ONES THAT PUT THEM IN A PRODUCTIVE, CREATIVE, POSITIVE MINDSET AND EMOTIONAL STATE.

7.      THEY RARELY COMPLAIN (WASTE OF ENERGY). ALL COMPLAINING DOES IT PUT THE COMPLAINERIN A NEGATIVE AND UNPREDUCTIVE STATE.

8.      THEY DON’T BLAME (WHAT’S THE POINT?). THEY TAKE COMPLETE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR ACTIONS AND OUTCOMES (OR LACK THEREOF)

9.      WHILE THEY ARE NOT NECESSARILY MORE TALENTED THAN THE MAJORITY, THEYALWAYS FIND A WAY TO MAXAMIZE THEIR POTENTIAL. THEY GET MORE OUT OF THEMSELVES. THEY USE WHAT THEY HAVE MORE EFECTIVELY.

10.  THEY ARE BUSY, PRODUCTIVE, AND PROACTIVE. WHILE ARE MOST ARE LAYING ON THE COUCH, PLANNING, OVER-THINKING, SITTING AND THEIR HANDS AND GENERALLY GOING AROUND IN CICLES, THEY ARE OUT THERE GETTING THE JOB DONE.

Choose the right