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INSERT TITLE HERE. What am I going to do with my future?. IS IT A DREAM?. OR IS IT A GOAL?. Goals are all about action. Goals turn dreams into reality. Goals have a time limit and a finish line.

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  2. What am I going to do with my future?

  3. IS IT A DREAM? OR IS IT A GOAL? Goals are all about action. Goals turn dreams into reality. Goals have a time limit and a finish line. Goals stretch you. They increase your skills, your abilities, and they widen, deepen and broaden your knowledge and experience. Goals require hard work. You need goals to make the visions of your dreams real. Goals can change you and change your life. … make sure your goals are just as big as your dreams! • Dreams are something you are just thinking about. • Dreams can go on forever. In fact, many people maintain dreams their entire lives without ever reaching them. You need to turn your dreams into action. • Dreams stretch your imagination. • Dreams ONLY require your imagination • Dreams can inspire you. Always dream big!

  4. Goals: Pathway to your future • Goal: Earn college credits while still attending high school. • Goal: Fulfill high school graduation requirements and build a college transcript. • Goal: Graduate from high school with up to one semester (15 credit hours), one year (30 credit hours), or your first college degree (60 credit hours). • Goal: Transfer the AA degree into a university and complete a BA degree.

  5. Begin with the end in mind What is a credit hour? How many credit hours in an Associate Degree? How many credits are general education courses? How much time? How many classes? What type of classes? How many semesters to a degree? Howmany credit hours in a 4 year degree? What about graduate and professional degrees?

  6. Attend college early • Develop time management skills • Resilience • Critical thinking • Ownership of your future • Persist in reaching your goals • Concurrent students excel at all tiers of higher education and return as college sophomores at very high rates (88%) • Reduce time in college to earn degrees 30% more likely to earn BA 42% more likely to earn BA on time!

  7. What is a Cohort? Having a Support Team Matters • Impact of community: people you learn with and from • A group of people banded together or treated as a group • People learn better in groups when they study in groups • Build community • Foster creativity • Build leadership skills • Encourage greater progress • Develop life skills, workplace skills, and community skills

  8. You’re in College! • You are a TCC student during your class • No Parent Teacher Conferences • Communicate and then Communicate! • You are your own advocate • No high school classes does not mean no TCC classes • Weather? Check Bb and the local news • Sign up for high school text messages • Read your syllabus • Use a calendar • Go to Class • Track your grades

  9. College costs… • Tuition • $325.65 per 3 credit hour course • $651.30 tuition/ 2 courses • Fees • $88.35 per 3 credit hour course • $176.70 fees / 2 courses • Total tuition and fees $ 828.00 • Textbooks, access codes, materials • Tuition waivers: • Seniors, 18 credit hours in the senior year • $1,953.90 18 credit hours tuition senior year • Juniors, 6 credit hours each semester • $1,953.90 18 credit hours tuition senior year • $3,907.80 Total tuition waived for 36 credit hours

  10. Syllabus Workshop • Course information • Syllabus Attachment on Bb: college policies • Professor contact and office hours • Department contact • Readings and texts • Communication • Americans with Disabilities (ADA) • Assignments • Evaluation: Points and grading scale • Professor policies • Absences • Late work penalties • Assignment submission • Blackboard (Bb) • Cancellation policy and important dates • Student Handbook/ Code of Conduct • Student support services • Plagiarism and academic misconduct • Course outline

  11. Grades CHECK…your grades ARE yours Weekly After every major graded assignment Track your points 2. ASK…Unsure? Email / talk to your professor Consult your syllabus Check Blackboard daily 3. SHARE…stay eligible With your counselor (ask your counselor for day/time at your school) With your parents – accountability is good!

  12. Textbooks CLASSES: TCC campus/ off-campus/high school? Ask your high school counselor first! Resources: - Read your syllabus • Email your professor • Go to the bookstore • Search Follett at tulsacc.edu • Rent online

  13. Class Schedules • Monday &Wednesday or Tuesday & Thursday • 1:20 long • Check your schedule on MYTCC before you leave orientation • Need help? • Now? Ask us! • Later? • Go to your high school counselor • Online resources • @ www.tulsacc.edu • Search: Counselor’s Corner • Call TCC at 918-595-4705

  14. Resources + You = Success • Your TCC syllabus and Calendar (be mindful of deadlines) • TCC campus resources: Writing lab, math lab, tutors, and advisors • Professors • High school teachers and counselors • High school principal and assistant principal • Your parents • Cohort classmates • MYTCC and Blackboard

  15. “It’s only a dream till you write it down, and then it’s a goal.” Emmit Smith

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