Successful Students 1-2
Successful students exhibit a combination of
successful attitudes and behavior 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 grades, 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 , ct bored, daydream, or sleep. Or, you could 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? Answer to these
questions to represent your “Hot Buttons” and are, without a doubt, the most important
factors in your success as a college student. If your educational goals 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 tire of being a student, nothing can
stop you; if you aren’t and done, everything can and will!
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