Profile of a Successful Student part 2

Work Together. There are a number of ways that you can ensure you get the most of your educational experience. First, participate fully. Engage regularly in the discussion and be willing to share personal, professional and educational experiences. You can get to know your classmates through dialogue that is created in a course environment-sometimes- even better than in a face-to-face class. And the same goes for your instructor. Be sure to contact your professor –especially if you are having problems. He/she is till your instructor and will be there to guide and assist you as you needed.

Successful Students 1-2

 

Successful students exhibit a combination of successful attitudes and behavior 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 between leading and being led. Your own efforts control your grades, 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 , ct bored, daydream, or sleep. Or, you could 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 desires.

 

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 to represent 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 student, nothing can stop you; if you aren’t and done, everything can and will!