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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
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? Answers to these questions represent you “hot
buttons” and are, without a doubt, the most important factors 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 are tire of being a student, nothing can stop you;
if you aren’t and don’t everything can and will!
CHOOSE
THE RIGHT!!!
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