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’