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 leading and being led.
Your own efforts control your grade, you earn the glory or deserve the blame, 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 educational goals. Successful
students have legitimate goals and are motivated by what they represent in
terms of career aspirations and life’s deserves.
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? Answer to these questions represents 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
tire of being a good student, nothing can stop you; if you aren’t then don’t,
everything can and will!
CHOOSE THE
RIGHT!!
