Successful
Students 1-2
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 between 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 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? What 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 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. It 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 don’t everything
can and will!
CHOOSE THE
RIGHT!
