The Educational Pathway
The Educational Pathway for Career Success
“Your true success in life begins only when you make the commitment to become excellent at what you do.”-Brian Tracy.
In high school, we are prepared to take on the real world. We take classes that are beneficial to helping us become successful in the real world. At Barton High School, we have a specific class that will completely help us in our future career success. This class is called “Senior Seminar.” In Senior Seminar each unit is dedicated to the help us prepare for the real world. This class offers instructions on how to fill out college applications, manage stress, and test-taking skills. We are also required to do an elevator speech so that we can properly know how to present ourselves. in fact, we …show more content…
We watched a movie called “Stand and Deliver;” in this movie, there were some students that were taking AP Calculus with a new teacher. The students were not academically where they were supposed to be at first, so the teacher prepared the students for the exam and they all passed with 3’s,4’s, and 5's. The state then accused them of cheating because they were all the same race which was Latino, they all ended up missing the same questions, and they were from a very bad school. The students then retook the AP Calculus exam and they all ended up passing once again. My purpose for talking about the book and the movie is to show how “Senior Seminar” is very beneficial in the educational pathways for career success. This class teaches us, and it allows us to be able to experience and learn about some of the things we will need to know in order to fulfill a successful career. The school also used to offer a program that students could attend which also prepared us for college. This program was called G.E.A.R. U.P. which means Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs. This Gear Up we were given the opportunity to build roller coasters, construct our dream homes, and we
“Your true success in life begins only when you make the commitment to become excellent at what you do.”-Brian Tracy.
In high school, we are prepared to take on the real world. We take classes that are beneficial to helping us become successful in the real world. At Barton High School, we have a specific class that will completely help us in our future career success. This class is called “Senior Seminar.” In Senior Seminar each unit is dedicated to the help us prepare for the real world. This class offers instructions on how to fill out college applications, manage stress, and test-taking skills. We are also required to do an elevator speech so that we can properly know how to present ourselves. in fact, we …show more content…
We watched a movie called “Stand and Deliver;” in this movie, there were some students that were taking AP Calculus with a new teacher. The students were not academically where they were supposed to be at first, so the teacher prepared the students for the exam and they all passed with 3’s,4’s, and 5's. The state then accused them of cheating because they were all the same race which was Latino, they all ended up missing the same questions, and they were from a very bad school. The students then retook the AP Calculus exam and they all ended up passing once again. My purpose for talking about the book and the movie is to show how “Senior Seminar” is very beneficial in the educational pathways for career success. This class teaches us, and it allows us to be able to experience and learn about some of the things we will need to know in order to fulfill a successful career. The school also used to offer a program that students could attend which also prepared us for college. This program was called G.E.A.R. U.P. which means Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs. This Gear Up we were given the opportunity to build roller coasters, construct our dream homes, and we