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 education 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 questions 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
tired of being a student, nothing can stop you; if you aren’t bad doesn’t,
everything can and will!
CHOOSE THE RIGHT
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