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’