Successful Students 1-2

Successful Students

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Successful students exhibit a combination of successful attitudes and behaviors as well as intellectual capacity. Successful student . . .

1.      . . Are responsible and active. Successful students get involved in their studies, accept responsibility for their own education, and are active participants in it! 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, you can actively listen, think, question, and take notes like someone in charge of their learning experience. Either option cost 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 goals and motivated by what they represent in terms of career aspirations and life’s desires.

2.      Ask yourself these questions: what am I doing here? Why have I chosen to be sitting here mean to me? Answers to these questions represented your “Hot Buttons” and are, without a doubt. If you’re educational goals are truly yours, not someone else’s, they will motivated a vital and positive academic attitude. If you are familiar with what these hot buttons represented and refer to them often, especially when you tire of being a student, nothing can stop you; if you aren’t and don’t, everything can, and will!