Successful
Students
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Successful students exhibit a combination of
successful attitudes and behaviors as well as intellectual capacity. Successful
students…..
1… are responsible and active. Successful students
get involved in their studies, accept responsibility for their own education,
and are active participants in it! Responsibility means control. It’s the difference between
leading and being led. Your own efforts control your grade, you earn the glory
or deserve the blame, and you make the choice. Active classroom participation
improves grades without increasing study time. You can sit there, act bored,
daydream, or sleep. Or, you can actively listen, think, question, and take
notes like someone in charge of their learning experience. Either option costs
one class period. However, the former method will require a large degree of
additional work outside of class to achieve the same degree of learning the
latter provides at one sitting. The choice is yours.
2 … have educational goals.
Successful students have legitimate goals and are motivated by what they
represent in terms of career aspirations and life’s desires.
Ask yourself these questions:
What am I doing here? Why have I chosen to be sitting here now? Is there some
better place I could be? What does my presence here mean to me? Answers to
these question represent you “hot buttons” and are, without a doubt, the most
important factors are truly yours, not someone else’s; they will motivate a
vital and positive academic attitude. If you are familiar with what these hot
buttons represent and refer to them often, especially when you are tire of
being a student, nothing can stop you; if you aren’t and don’t everything can
and will!
CHOOSE THE RIGHT!
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