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Preparing for College NOW Building a Foundation for Educational Success

Preparing for College NOW Building a Foundation for Educational Success. Prepared by: Rachel Andrews, Counselor, Parras Middle School Kelly Goo, Counselor, RUHS Eugenie Lewis, Counselor, Birney & Beryl Elementary Karen Spiwak, Counselor, Jefferson Tiffany Straight, Counselor, RUHS.

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Preparing for College NOW Building a Foundation for Educational Success

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  1. Preparing for College NOWBuilding a Foundation for Educational Success Prepared by: Rachel Andrews, Counselor, Parras Middle School Kelly Goo, Counselor, RUHS Eugenie Lewis, Counselor, Birney & Beryl Elementary Karen Spiwak, Counselor, Jefferson Tiffany Straight, Counselor, RUHS

  2. College Readiness:Steps to Encourage Student Achievement • Step 1: Encourage positive work habits that stress the importance of education. • Step 2: Become involved in school and encourage basic skills. • Step 3: Acknowledge success and respect effort (Concept of Mindset by Carol Dweck). • Step 4: Provide an effective place to study and provide help as needed. • Step 5. Recognize that opportunities to learn are never ending.

  3. Steps to Encourage Student Achievement

  4. Steps to Encourage Student Achievement

  5. Creating a College-Going Culture at Home • Challenge your child to set college as a goal. • Support your child’s interests and strengths. • Encourage increasing independence and good work habits. • Move from external to internal motivation. • Help your child understand college concepts. • Plan a “roadmap” to achieve a college preparatory curriculum. Visit colleges. • Set common expectations in multiple households.

  6. Setting the Stage for College Going to college provides many academic, professional, and personal options.

  7. What is Self-Advocacy? • Advocacy is defined as an individual’s ability to effectively communicate, convey, negotiate or assert interests, desires, needs and rights. • Self-advocacy means making those around you aware of your needs. • Encourage increasing independence and self-motivation as your child grows. • Teach your child to take initiative and develop good work habits. • A positive attitude generates promising outlook.

  8. Encourage Enrichment, Extracurricular, School Involvement • Support your child’s interests and strengths while compensating for weaknesses. • Expose your child to different enrichment opportunities and life experiences. • Help them to find deeper meaning through volunteer work, service learning and mentoring. • Help your child build a profile and support network to reach college goals.

  9. Building Self-Esteem and a Positive Self Image Love

  10. Building Self-Esteem and Positive Self-Image • Your student’s success in school is partially related to his or her sense of self-esteem. Suggestions: • Encourage: expect your student to be able, competent, and responsible. • Motivate: reward effort and improvement with enthusiasm. • Appreciate: acknowledge small steps. Focus on successes rather than failures. • Listen: Pay attention to your child. Use meals and other “together” times to find out what’s happening at school. • Help. Set aside time to assist with school work and to practice new and developing skills. Select a study place and set a study time with your child. • Guide. Practice consistent discipline and a be a positive role model. • Participate and enjoy doing things together (both educational and recreational). • LOVE!

  11. Growth vs. Fixed Mindset • Fixed Mind-Set • Intelligence is static • Leads to a tendency to look smart and therefore a tendency to.. • avoid challenges • Give up easily • see effort as fruitless or worse • Ignore useful negative feedback • Feel threatened by the success of others • As a result, they may plateau early and achieve less than their full potential. Growth Mind-set Intelligence can be developed • Leads to a desire to learn and therefore a tendency to.. • embrace challenges • persist in the face of setbacks • see effort as a the path to master • learn from criticism • find lessons and inspiration in the success of others • As a result, they reach ever-higher levels of achievement. All this gives them a greater sense of free will. Source: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck

  12. Study Skills • Organization • Study Habits • Test Taking/anxiety • Know your child’s learning style • How you can best support them… • What kind of learner is your student?

  13. Role of Parent • Monitoring student • CST, report cards, graded tests, assignments

  14. Academic • Elementary: Basic facts, mechanics, rote memorization • Middle: • High: • Pathways • Prerequisites • Shift from memorization to analytical/critical thinking

  15. Define GPA, credits, a-g, SAT/ACT • CST scores – how is related to high school

  16. There is a College for Everyone • “All students, regardless of grades and test scores, have colleges from which to choose. Students merely need to seize the opportunity and realize that choices do exist….all students will find colleges where they will be successful. While it is true that admissions to college has become much more competitive in recent years, it is also true that the collegiate opportunities in the United States are tremendous.” - Steven R. Antonoff Author of College MATCH: A Blueprint for Choosing the Best School for You

  17. Helping Your Child Achieve a Well-Balanced Life: THE HEALTHY MIND PLATTER

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