Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“What’s right isn’t always popular, what’s popular isn’t always right.”

Reflection: Following the wrong crowed doing the wrong maybe be popular but doing the right is a right thing to do.  

Successful Students 7-8

 Successful Students

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7… understand that actions affect learning. Successful students know their personal behavior affect their feelings and emotions which in turn can affect emotions.

If you act in a certain way that normally produces particular feelings, you will begin to experience those feelings. Act like you’re bored, and you’ll become bored. Act entertained and you’ll be entertained. So next time you need to pay attention “act” like you’re an interested person and you’ll become interested. Not only will you benefit directly from your actions, your classmates may get more exited.

8…. Talk about what your leaning. Successful students get to know something well before they put it into words. It’s a proven learning tool. Transferring ideas into words provides the most direct path for moving logic short term and long term. You really don’t know material until you put it into words

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Successful Students 5-6

 

 Successful Students

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5. Don’t sit in the back of the room. Successful students minimize classroom distractions that interfere with learning.

Students want the best seat available for their entertainment dollars, but willingly seek the worst seat for their educational dollars. Students who sit in the back cannot possibly be their professor’s teammate. Why do they expose themselves to an inactive classroom experiences and distractions of all the people.

6. take good notes. Successful students take notes that are organized and understandable and review them often.

Why put something into your notes you don’t understand? Ask the questions now that are necessary to make your notes meaningful one time or another. A short review of your notes while the material is still fresh in you brain. The more you learn then, the less you’ll have to learn later and the less time it will take you since you’ve already reviewed it.

 

 

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Student Success Statement

“The time is always right to do what is right”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Statement: Time doesn’t matters to do right things. You can do right things at whatever time & at whatever day. As long as you know what is right to do.

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Successful Students

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3. . . . ask questions. Successful students ask questions to provide the quickest route between ignorance and knowledge. In addition to securing knowledge you seek, asking questions has at least two other extremely important benefits. The process helps you pay attention to your professor and helps your professor pay attention to you! Think about it. If you want something, go after it. Get the answer now, or fail a question later. There are no foolish questions, only foolish silence. It’s your choice.

4. . . . learn that a student and a professor make a team. Most instructors want exactly what you want: they would like for you to learn the material in their respective classes and earn a good grade.

Successful students reflect well on the efforts of any teacher; if you have learned your material, the instructor takes some time justifiable pride in teaching. Join forces with your instructor, they are not an enemy, and you share the same interests, the same goals- in short, and your teammates. Get to know your professor. You’re the most valuable players on the same team. Your jobs are to work together for mutual success. Neither wishes to chalk up a losing season. Be a team player!

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Student Success Statement

“I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”

Ernest Hemingway

Reflection:

Doing what’s right will always beat the wrong 100%. You see there are times when you have a choice whether it’s good or bad; you always do what is right for you and your decisions. Because you can’t do wrong and feel right it’s impossible. There are winners and losers; nobody wants to be a looser. Pay attention to what’s right and what’s wrong.

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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 between leading and being led. Your own efforts control your grade, 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, 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 required 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 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 don’t, everything can, and will!

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