Explain Why Are High School Students Prepared For College
High School Students – Prepared or not Prepared A big question today is, “Are high school students prepared for college?” The answer to that question is seemingly unknown. Research, from McMahon and Myers, has shown high school students are not being properly prepared to enter college straight out of high school. This makes it my goal as a future teacher that all of my students will be properly prepared for college, when they have finished my class. When unprepared high school students enter college and must start out with remediation classes, they do not always get back on track with the other college students who started out with entry-level classes. This also negatively affects colleges and the students because the drop-out rates are going
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As McMahon says in her article, “And, while knowing how to annotate a chapter is a necessary skill, it is probably not one that will help a student remember the terrain of a specific geographic area: A series of note cards or an organization chart would be better for that.” Some students go to college and are not aware that they are going to have to study harder or maybe even study differently than they would if they were taking a high school class. Students need to be taught how to properly study before they go to college and are left on their own. If each class a student goes to would set aside one day or even one hour a week to teach the students how to properly study for that specific class, they would be more likely to make better grades, as well as, have less trouble when they are on their own in …show more content…
If a student has never been introduced to college-level work then they are going to be unprepared for what it looks like and what it takes to do it, when they get to college. This being said, few students enter college, but do not truly know whether they are academically prepared or not (McMahon). One way to help the students know if they are prepared is if students could be told in each year of high school, what they need to be doing to improve in their scholastics to get them ready for college-level work. Another way to help with the problem of students being unaware if they are prepared is, after students take their ACT, they need to be put in classes that strictly prepare them for college-level work in whatever classes they are lacking the proper skills
As McMahon says in her article, “And, while knowing how to annotate a chapter is a necessary skill, it is probably not one that will help a student remember the terrain of a specific geographic area: A series of note cards or an organization chart would be better for that.” Some students go to college and are not aware that they are going to have to study harder or maybe even study differently than they would if they were taking a high school class. Students need to be taught how to properly study before they go to college and are left on their own. If each class a student goes to would set aside one day or even one hour a week to teach the students how to properly study for that specific class, they would be more likely to make better grades, as well as, have less trouble when they are on their own in …show more content…
If a student has never been introduced to college-level work then they are going to be unprepared for what it looks like and what it takes to do it, when they get to college. This being said, few students enter college, but do not truly know whether they are academically prepared or not (McMahon). One way to help the students know if they are prepared is if students could be told in each year of high school, what they need to be doing to improve in their scholastics to get them ready for college-level work. Another way to help with the problem of students being unaware if they are prepared is, after students take their ACT, they need to be put in classes that strictly prepare them for college-level work in whatever classes they are lacking the proper skills