Empowering Students For Success: Family Relationships are the Basis of the Student's Success

By Keith Bricker

Designed to assist 12 to 15-year-old students in making life role decisions. Students are assisted by parents and their school. The key is identifying competencies that come naturally to the student. Once identified the competencies need to be validated to make sure they can be used for life role decision making. Decisions that need to be made a

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rustik Haws LLC
• Release date: Apr 24, 2020
• ISBN: 9781952617225

Keith Bricker

Worked with parents, students, and business for forty years. Provided a unique perspective to enhance academic success from the power ingrained in family relationships. The author’s specialist degree in education/counseling for teaching science, high school social studies, working as a school counselor, and teaching management courses at the college level provided the background to connect the student and parent(s) with business to enhance student success.

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Empowering Students for Success by Keith Bricker

This book is written to provide information and motivation to readers. Its purpose isn’t to render any type of psychological, legal, or professional advice of any kind. The content is the sole opinion and expression of the author, and not necessarily that of the publisher.

Copyright © 2020 by Keith Bricker

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ISBN: 978-1-952244-39-1 (Paperback)

ISBN: 978-1-952617-22-5 9 (E-Book)

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Contents

Observations for the Success Model

Empowering Students for Success

Information Area 1:

Interests Past and Present

Activity 1: Compentencies from

Interests Activities

Activity 2: Interest from

Past and Present Activities

Activity 3: Interest List

Information Area 2:

Compentencies Identification

Activity 4:

Competency Selection Activity

Activity 5: Additional

Competency Reference List

Activity 6:

Compiling a Competency List

Information Area 3:

Standardized Test Scores

Activity 7: Work Sheet for Analyzing

Standardized Test Scores

Information Area 4:

Interest Inventories

Activity 8: Interest Inventory

Information Area 5:

Academic Patterns

Activity 9: Analyzing Grades

Information Area 6:

Community Involvement

Activity 10: Community Service

Activity 11: Summary

Information of Activities 1-10

Resource 1: Problem-Solving Model

Resource 2: Motivation

Resource 3: Learning How to Learn

Resource 4: Shadowing Employers

Resource 5:

Post-High School Resources

Empowering Students for Success

All working together provides the knowledge and relationships needed for student life role decision making.

Note: The family is the most influential factor for a student in making healthy life decisions and staying in school.

Empowering Students for Success

Managed by the Family

Empowering Students for Success is the result of forty-plus years working as a public school and college instructor in science, social studies, and management courses and as a high school guidance counselor with a specialist degree and an LPC license. The ideas come from listening to and interacting with parents, students, and the business community. It is nothing short of amazing what can be learned from each of these groups when the objectives are to enhance the student’s academic performance in school by having realistic goals and with the parent as the main adviser. This approach gives a commitment to student learning. This manual, written for parents, provides tools that can be used to support their students’ academic enhancement.

Going through the information topics, resources, and activities will take time and patience. There is no shortcut to constructive student learning. The competencies/skills identified, with their academic application, can bring short- and long-term success for the student in his career options and other basic life choices.

The goal is to establish a connection between the family, the school, the community, and the business to provide a method for the student to discover the cognitive data need-ed to establish individual goals and enhance his academic success. Those goals need to be guided by integrity, a strong work ethic, and balance between aggressiveness

and showing a humble spirit to achieve the level of confidence needed for success.

Corporate and Educational Policies can Promote Student Success and Increase Stakeholders’ Equity

Ideas to Consider:

Have a base salary, then build in bonus options for:

Creative teaching techniques developed by

the teacher and then used by others through administrative promotion.

Pre-determined percent improvement in student learning measured by pre and post testing.

Give teachers an option to accept 25% increase in class size. If student learning is equal to or better than the building average for that subject, the teacher could get a bonus with some of the savings going to the district. If four teachers were successful the district would need one less teacher and thereby save on insurance and other costs.

Ongoing communication between individual teachers and local business that work in the teachers’ curriculum area. Social media should work well.

This would serve to keep the teacher up to date on the competencies/skills needed and changes occurring in the work environment. Many teachers have never worked in the private sector.

Teachers prepare students for work after school life. Business needs to have input into the changing what so teachers are using their expertise to meet future needs not needs of the past or present.

Connect students to the work environment competency needs:

Student competency identification from past and present interests.

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