Monday, September 24, 2012

Student responsibilities


      
Students have the right to seize the responsibility for their own destiny and should be encouraged to do so. With every right comes responsibility!
1.            I have the responsibility to come to every class prepared to listen, TO participate, and to learn.
2.            i have the responsibility to read the text carefully, nothing important IDEAS AND rephrasing concepts in my own words.
3.            i have the responsibility to work examples in the textbook and those given in class.

Thursday, September 20, 2012

sTUDENT sUCCESS sTATEMENT


Choose The Right!
Student Success Statement

“Decisions Determine Destiny”

Thomas S. Monson

Reflection: I think this statement means that the decisions you make are your choice. You can do something brilliant.

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Successful students Part 1


Successful Students
Part 1

Successful students exhibit a combination of successful attitudes and behaviors as well as intellectualy.Successful students

1.Successful students 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.Its the difference between leading and being led.Your own efforts control your grade  you earn the glory or deserve the blame you make the choise.Active classroom participation improves grades without increasing study time.You can sit  there act bored day,dream ,or sleep.Or,you can actively listen,think,questionand take notes like someone in charge of there 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 choise is yours.

2.Successful students have educational goals.Successful students have legitiment goals and are motivated  by what what they represent in terms of career aspiratations and lifes desires.Ask yourself these questions:what am I doing here?Why have I choosen to be sitting here now?is there some better place I could be?What does my presence hear mean to me?Answers to these questions represent your ‘hot buttons’

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Characteristics of a successful student


many students do not know what it takes to be successful in the educational environment. they understand good and bad grades in a general way, and THEY SENSE that they should attend classes, but that is where their knowledge begins and ends.
most instructors know what a good student is and is not. for one thing, a good student is not necessarily the most individualistically in the class.
the following is a list of some characteristics of good students. this list is a description. the idea