Deep in the mind of a Surprise Valley AVID student, there is a profound sense of "uhg". This deep loathing could only be directed at one thing: the Friday binder check! Just kidding. As I have come to realize over the course of my AVID career, binder checks are not really all that bad if you looks on the bright side. In fact, they have even improved my performance as a student. When I began taking AVID, binder checks seemed ridiculous to me. What peeved me the most was the task of taking five pages of Cornell Notes for every subject every week. This was because I thought it unfair to try and squeeze unnecessary notes out of classes where there was nothing to take notes on, and I didn't want to have to analyze it. Now that I have been in AVID for two years, I know that binder checks are not meaningless blobs of work. Actually, they have helped me reach one of my main AVID goals: to become more organized. The looming threat of the Friday binder check prompts me to fill out my planner, file my loose papers away, and follow a specific (and orderly) notetaking format. I'm sure that I certainly would not be so neat if my neatness wasn't graded. Not surprisingly, this aspect of binder checks has helped me in the rest of my classes. With my planner, I can keep track …show more content…
Even though they are not my favorite thing, I must admit that they have a few merits. Let's face it. Taking Cornell Notes properly is a lot of work, but the method allows me to really analyze what I have learned. I have heard a saying about the AVID class: "You get out of it what you put into it." That explains why, after taking an awesome page of cornell notes, I feel like I have done some serious learning. The Cornell Way forces me to scour the lesson head to toe, to ask questions, and make connections. This is another one of those things that I wouldn't do if I weren't obligated
...out homework, which was a huge stress relief. The class also offered how to write the base foundation of any paper, which is significant to become a great writer as well as to write a flawless paper. Also, the group activities allowed us to get closer with our classmates. However, I feel like some of the activities we did were mediocre and ordinary. But it is hard to tell what experience each student received from their high school. Some knew more than others, and I was just more grateful with the education I obtained from high school. I was also not fond of buying the books for the class, when it was not a necessity for class. We did not put much use into the books, and they were relatively expensive. I do recommend the class, especially to incoming freshman. It is a great foundation for legitimate college writing classes. I enjoyed learning from you Mrs. Penwell.
During my first few days of sophomore year at Stuyvesant High School, I saw how the ways of thinking were diverse in each of my classes. In my European Literature class, where, in our first reading assignment, we questioned the purpose of education itself. I always went with the flow in my learning, and never stopped to say to myself, “Why am I doing this to myself?”. However, once I read Live and Learn by Louis Menand, I started to think about Menand’s three theories of college and juxtapose each of them to my experience so far in high school. In the end, I concluded that many of my classes followed the main points of Theory 2, which was the theory that I mostly agreed with when I read the article for the first time.
This lead into another treatment students can adopt into their learning process is challenging themselves academically. Students need to stop finding the enabling factor, the Polonius. The Polonius is degrading factor making school a “slide through” experience for students, the common spreader of the Ophelia Syndrome. Find the teachers who deny a student the chance to be the Polonius. Locate challenging and powerful teachers who “refuse to make you a baby, and they refuse to do your thinking for you.”(Plummer, 1990, p.440) when students learn to challenge themselves, the evidence of such syndrome begins to ease. Tanner explains being academically demanding with a example of her own, posing how she analyzes all words and passages to truly understand them. “the way they are put together, the possible symbolism, the clever use of literary devices, and new meanings that I may never have noticed or understood before—all become apparent in the process of memorizing.” Is doing this easy? Convenient? No. However, to sincerely receive substantial learning, challenging yourself as a student is not only recommended, but necessary as a authentic student and gain a more heartfelt and individual learning
To help Jennifer be prepared for class and remember her homework, she will record homework assignments in a planner and review the day planner with her teacher at the end of the day with her teacher. She will also have a parent/guardian sign the day planner at home to ensure that she has completed the assignments that are due (Sublette, n.d.).
The lessons I learned this semester through the Scholars Latinx Initiative program have profoundly given my life a new meaning. Something magical occurred within Greenlaw Hall -- in the midst of exploring conflicting identities, social injustice, racism, fear, and the immigrant struggle we, nineteen compassionate students and one passionate instructor, rediscovered empathy and humanity. The reality however, is that outside of this bubble that is Chapel Hill, I live in a nation in which my neighbors and governmental representatives voted for a presidential candidate who said no to tolerance and promised to take back the economy of a country that had been stained by the dreams of immigrants. My response to Donald Trump and his supporters is that
During my first semester of college, I felt like this course overshadowed all the others. I faced many challenges, gained better habits, and even increased the value of myself as a scholar. Not only did my professor provide her students with the course material she built a confidence inside of us that will allow us to be able to tackle any task, especially pertaining to any written compositions. The things that I have learned from this course could and will be applied to any and everything I do from here on out, whether that writing an essay or even taking a test. Again, the journey was long, but I will be forever grateful for the things that I, and all of my peers have gained from this
... the value of organization and planning. The structure provided by the instructor truly helped me break down very large projects into smaller, more approachable assignments. For example, for each essay due, there were smaller deadlines that needed to be met. As I kept up with those smaller assignments, the actual large due date was not intimidating and I was able to handle the stress better. I will definitely use this approach in my future academic writing assignments.
This course and as in Honors Biology, we were taught in a more oneself teaching rather than a lecture. I like the idea of not having a lecture, but when the teacher took a day to do a quick overview of each chapter, I learned the material and understood the material the best. I wish that we had that in each unit because I truly do like biology and when I understand a new concept fully it made me feel 10 times more comfortable on the test and the
making a final copy. In order to create a good paper you need organize your
I am not the kind of person who talks or writes much. Putting my thoughts on papers is something I have always struggled with doing. I believe this class will help me improve on transferring my thoughts to paper, in an organized fashion. I look forward to becoming a better writer because of this class.
From this chapter I have learned a lot about myself and how to study. Before I never really understood the different ways I studied, I just knew what seemed to work. I now understand why those techniques were successful. Now that I am aware I am a mostly a visual learner, have an integrated brain, and have bodily-kinesthetic and logical-mathematical intelligence, I look forward to implementing the newly learned studying techniques with the old, making my college experience as successful as possible.
... better to college life. It helps me stay focused and keep things organized by wrapping things up and reviewing all things that we learned throughout that particular week.
Overall, this has been one of my favorite classes in that I can work at my own pace, make my own deadlines (besides the due dates), and communicate with others in ways I had never done before. I am more of a hands on, face to face, confrontation kind of student,
...at previously, sometimes in the midst of a discussion, people forget that there are two sides of a story and not everyone has to agree to yours. What we learn from our books or our studies is not what is necessarily important. What we learn from our peers and our professors is what’s important. Learning is more than absorbing fact, it is acquiring understanding, and it is being passionate about the material you are given. Each piece that we have read in class, and each comment that we make impacts a person no matter how little it seems. The education systems focuses too much about effective methods of teaching and not enough about effective methods of learning. However, this course felt like we were learning something instead trying to finish the curriculum. As Albert Einstein once said, “education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think”.
read, it is amazing, I focus in the lecture, and it is like make a traveling. I am no physically there,