The Importance Of Student Success In Anaheim High School

Anaheim High school located in Anaheim, California home to many students but few success stories. These success stories being earning extraordinary grades then becoming a college students who gets a career therefore becoming a notable individual in society. Yet why is Anaheim high school home to so many students, but not to many successful students. What is the problem occurring at Anaheim? Is it the school or the students? Anaheim can increase students success but they must implement shorter summers, proper praising, and student friendly curriculum. Anaheim students must also be challenged to be more persistent in the classroom in order to gain success. In order to increase student success in Anaheim high school, the school must shorten their
three long month summer vacation to two month; therefore, the students can retain much of their knowledge learned in the previous year. In addition, the month that is taken away from the students can be used to introduce next year’s concepts. Three months is a very long period of time for a student to be out of school with no academic exercise during those months.
A student's previous learning can be lost during that period since students during summer vacation don’t take time out of their vacation to study previous or future materials that will or has been taught. Therefore Anaheim should cut back on how early they release their students for vacation. They can use that extra month to prepare their students for their upcoming classes. Anaheim students lack basic fundamental math skills, especially in math and science, which prevents them from succeeding in their upcoming class. Furthermore adding on a long vacation decreases their math skills because they don’t practice. The results are low performing students.According to “Martina’s Bargain” by Malcolm Gladwell, discuss the issues faced by students of low income when they face“Long summer vacation-a peculiar and distinctive American legacy that has had profound consequences for the learning patterns of students of the present day”. Traditional summer vacations affect the learning ways of a student since it affect the student by putting them behind on their academic skills. Therefore in order to see a drastic change Anaheim will need to design a shorter vacation and develop a new curriculum that
will benefit the students in that extra month they will be receiving. Longer periods of vacation can be beneficial to the mind to get away from the stress of school which can increase the student's energy for the next year. Yet Gladwell states traditional summers are no longer beneficial to student since that long period of relaxing is damaging since students don't continue their studies during vacation therefore leading to their decrease in knowledge. Hence condensing the vacation is more beneficial to the student and implementing that extra month of teaching will help Anaheim student become more successful since they will retain much more of their learning. Anaheim can increase students success by challenging the students in class to be more persistent when learning and working.Anaheim students have tendency to give up when they don't understand a certain topic this then declines their success because of their constant giving up.
Hence if Anaheim challenges their student and teaches them how to overcome these obstacles they will be more prepared to face the next obstacle with a more successive mind. In the video “8 secrets of success” by Richard St. John, success comes from one’s capabilities “Persistence is the number one reason for our success.You've got to persist through failure. You've got to persist through Criticism, Rejection,and Pressure." Anaheim student must be able to be persistent and learn not to give up through failure therefore they will be able to overcome failures.Challenging anaheim students in the classroom can result to more students failing since they are being challenged in all subjects. Yet that won’t occur a anaheim since the challenge will be proportioned out through all subject to build persistence in an anaheim
student. Proper praising must be enforced at anaheim in order to motivate success in anaheim students. Anaheim students tend to be discouraged when they participate or do well on a test but don't get recognized or at least acknowledged for their input. Therefore if proper praising is commonly practice at Anaheim students will then be more encouraged to be an active learner therefore. The article “the secret to raising smart kids” by Carol S. Dweck, introduces several key elements that play a role in students success,”one way is by telling stories about achievements that result from hard work”. Anaheim staff and parents must make a habit to complement their student in order to keep them motivated to succeed. What is the difference between proper praising and exaggerating a complement and will the student become dependant of theses praises in order to do well at school. As Dweck mentions the educators and parents will need to learn the difference and learn when to implement the praising to their student. Also this proper praising won't be an exaggeration yet it will be a true and accurate praise for the student and their accomplishment.
Anaheim must establish a student friendly curriculum which will increase their students success and get rid of their current teaching standards.These current standardards do not benefit the student since it is a board and generalized teaching style that doesn't adapt to different types of student personalities. According to “ Four essential principles for education success” by Thomas A. Hilton, school environment is crucial to a student’s learning,“The U.S. has spent decade upon decade surrounded by a school system that is, for all practical purposes, a "one-size-fits-all" system.”. Anaheim like the schools Hilton discusses need to get out of the one size fits all environment which affect the student's capabilities. This type of system is outdated and need to advance with our current society which keeps expanding.The one size fits all system has been established for decades across the nation and in Anaheim thus is this new change actually going to work. Like how Hilton stated we must get out of this system that has affected students performance and evidently affects Anaheim students since Anaheim high school is stuck in the one size fit all mentality which need to be broken.
Once anaheim high school implements shorter summer, proper praising, student friendly curriculum and the students become more persistent then anaheim will see an increase in success. Therefore Anaheim will be more academically successful therefore leading to higher success stories on campus.