My plan is to be responsible with respect to prioritizing my commitments appropriately, managing my time realistically and effectively, and maintaining a general overall sense of purposefulness to help me in both of those respects. Moral Development The typical college student spends the first four years of adulthood in an academic institutional environment (Folsom, 2008)
But there are other factors that may be even more important than innate intellectual ability. Consider that the vast majority of college students who are neither at the very top not at the very bottom of the range of academic ability (Gordon, Habley, & Grites, 2008)
It would be more unusual than usual for college students, especially first-year students, to be able to accomplish everything that one plans to do in advance. What is much more important than whether or not one's initial planning proves to be effective is whether or not one takes the initiative to plan more realistically as soon as time constraints and conflicts reveal themselves (Lucier, 2008)
If grades are improving, it means the plan had been successful. Regular evaluation is necessary alongside the implementation of strategies to make sure that if goals are not being achieved half way through the year, the plan would need to be revised (Fleming, 2012)
An example of personal responsibility is the 35% non-traditional students of Arkansas State University, who work and study simultaneously and often achieve the best grades in the University. The sole reason of this success is prioritizing, planning, time management and motivation to follow the planning for studies which in a nutshell is personal responsibility (Springston, 2010)
The defendants' attorneys argued a case for unpremeditated assault. In the subsequent trial the jury was hung on all charges except a felony mayhem count against one defendant (Clark)
The mob mentality defense creates dangerous incentives and contributes to the destruction of the principle of personal responsibility. Personal responsibility involves the willingness to both accept the importance of standards that society establishes for individual behavior and to make strenuous personal efforts to live by those standards (Haskins)
Mob Mentality, The Wave, And Personal Responsibility Dennis Gansel's 2008 film The Wave is a dramatization of actual events that took place at Cubberley High School in Polo Alto, California, in the spring of 1967 (Johnston)
Even students who did develop some personal responsibility at home will discover new challenges and opportunities to taking responsibility. There will be new temptations and distractions in college, such as sex, drugs, and drinking (Haskins, 2009)
"Being responsible is a learned behavior. It is not an accident and it requires patience and effort," ("Personal Responsibility," n
According to Helms and Rogers (2010), time management has largely got to do with the proper selection of tasks so as to enhance accomplishment within a well-defined timeframe. The author further notes that in a way, "poor time management seems likely to interfere with positive academic results" (Helms and Rogers, 2010)
Further as Zimmerman (1990) notes, these statements were rather "reactive" and in such a case, they were in one way or the other indicators of a deficiency in personal initiative. In the same study, statements from students possessing a greater level of personal initiative were laced with a "simple resolve" (Zimmerman 1990)
College outcomes are affected by students' interactions with faculty and peers and the campus environment exerts an enabling effect on them. Academic learning to a very high is an in-class process and it is therefore crucial for students to be actively engaged in the classroom (Hersh and Schneider ibid
The others might be quicker learners than himself or they have simply had luck with this attitude. As Sullivan points out: "Just because [someone] believe[s] something is true doesn't mean it is" (Sullivan, 2011, p
It is the exact opposite of accepting personal responsibility to make excuses or to blame other people or conditions to be responsible for what is not going well in one's own life. People have a tendency to get into habits and if they get into the habit of making excuses instead of being honest to themselves, they get into the habit of evading personal responsibility at the same time (Tracy, Taking personal responsibility, 2011, p
Responsibility is not a burden, it's a blessing . Today's subject is responsibility. Not social responsibility, which is a separate issue, but personal responsibility.
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