Profile of a successful student part 1

Profile of a successful student part 1

http://www.playmouth.edu/office/online-education/online-learning/proffile-of-a-successful-student/

A successful student…         

… Takes responsibility for his/her own learning

Online learning can be powerful, stimulating, engaging experience for the student who can work and think independently. However, since most-if not all-of the learning take place on your own time, you will not have the kind of direct supervision you would in a classroom. Online learning therefore requires a significant commitment from you. All education comes down to what you are willing to invest in the experience-this is particularly true in the online environment. Commitment, self-discipline and self-motivation are all key qualities to ensuring success in an online course!

… Is comfortable and confident with written communication

Reading and writing are the basis of most online courses, so it’s critical that you feel comfortable with this form of communication. While some courses contain modules that include videos or other activities, all of them require significant amounts of reading. And nearly all of your communication with your classmates and your instructor will be in writing. If these are weak areas for you, you will want to address those issues prior to enrolling or while enrolled in an online course. The PSU Writing Center is available to assist you.

… Is willing to be a member of an online community.

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Successful Students

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10. Successful students are good time managers. Successful Students do not procrastinate. They have learned that time control is life control and have consciously chosen to be in control of their life.

An elemental truth: you will either control time or be controlled by it! It’s your choice: you can lead or be led, establish control or relinquish control, steer your own course or follow others. Failure to take control of their own time is probably the no. I study skills problem for college students. It ultimately causes students to become non-students! Procrastinators are good excuse makers. Don’t make academics harder on yourself than it has to be. Stop procrastinating. And don’t wait until tomorrow to do it!

The 10 items listed above are paraphrased from an article by Larry M Ludewig called The Ten Commandments for Effective Study Skills which appeared in The Teaching Professor, December, 1992

“Learning Technologies and Online Education”

Student success statement

Student success statement

“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.” – Henry David Thoreau

Goodness is a loyal feeling, all in goodness is right! Never will fail cause will never introduce you in the wrong way to your life, if you live a right goodness life you will gonna have a peaceful future!.

Student success statement

Student success statement

“It is our duty to concentrate all our influence to make popular that which is sound and good, and (to make) unpopular that which is unsound (and not good).” – Joseph Smith  

We have to work hard and make true that our influence will be good for others and not make them enter in the wrong way, we have to make popular what its right, and make unpopular the bad things that everybody tries to follow just for a trend, its better do the right doesn’t matter the difficult because that will give to a successful future, than do the wrong what is easy and that will give you the worst future.   

Successful students 9

Successful students 9

9. Don’t cram for exams. Successful students that divide periods of study are more effective than cram sessions, and they practice it.

If there is one thing that study skills specialist agree on, it is that distributed study is better than massed, late-night, last-ditch efforts known as cramming. You’ll learn more, remember more, and earn higher grade by studying in four, one hour-a-night sessions on Friday’s exam than studying for four hours straight on Thursday night. Short, concentrated preparatory efforts are more efficient and rewarding than wasteful, inattentive, last moment marathons. Yet, so many students fail to learn this lesson and end up repeating it over and over again until it becomes a wasteful habit. Not too clever, huh?

When you cram, you are taking the shortcut, and shortcuts never produce any real worthwhile results. Also, when you take shortcuts, you feel rather rotten knowing that you could have done better but didn’t. Shortcuts cut your short. You can’t plant watermelon seeds and harvest fresh watermelons next day. It takes time. Cramming for a test or project and expecting to make a high score the next day is like planting watermelons seeds and expecting to harvest and eat fresh watermelons the next day. Plus cramming for a test or project doesn’t help you academically, so why even do it. Plan ahead, prepare ahead. Give yourself plenty of days and weeks to prepare for upcoming accountability opportunities.

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Student success statement

Student success statement

“What’s right isn’t always popular. What’s popular isn’t always right.” – Howard Cosell

I think the statement means that you don’t have to do such things just because the others do, you always have to be yourself and never change for just a trend of something popular, always live your life in your own style and don’t let the influences of your “friends” change your life model and the way that you look for your future, always be yourself and never let the popularity change your mind put clear your goals and what you want for your life, be a good influence for the other to can be a good role model.

 

Successful students 7-8

Successful students 7-8

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

If you act in certain way normally produces particular feelings, you will begin to experience those feelings. Act like you’re bored and you’ll become bored. Act like you’re disinterested, and you’ll become disinterested. So the next time you have trouble concentrating in the classroom, “act” like an interested person: learn forward, place your feet flat on the floor, maintain eye contact with the professor, nod occasionally, take notes, and ask questions. Not only will you benefit directly from your actions, your classmates and professor may also get more excited and enthusiastic.

8. Talk about what they’re learning. Successful students get to know something well enough that they can put in into words. Talking about something, with friends or classmates, is not only good for checking whether or not you know something, it’s a proven learning tool. Transferring ideas into words provides the most direct path for moving knowledge from short-term to long-term memory. You really don’t “know” material until you can put into words. So, next time you study, don’t do it silently. Talk about notes, problems, reading, etc. with friends, recipe to chair, organize an oral study group, pretend you are teaching your peers. “talk-learning” produces a whole host of memory traces that result in more learning.

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