Successful
Students
5-6
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; willingly seek the worst
seat for their educational dollars. Students who sit in the back cannot
possibly be their professor’s teammate (see no.4). Why do they expose
themselves to their temptations of inactive classroom experiences and
distractions of all the people between them and their instructor? Of course, we
know they chose the back of the classroom because they seek invisibility or
anonymity, both of which are antithetical to efficient and effective learning.
If you are trying not to be part of the class, why, then, are you wasting your
time? Push your hot buttons; is there something else you could be doing with
your time?
6. Take good notes.
Successful students take notes that are understandable and organized, and
review them often.
Why put something
into your notes you don’t understand? Ask questions now that are necessary to
make your notes meaningful at some later time. A short review of your notes
helps you to learn more. The more you learn then, the less you have to learn
later and the less time it will take because you won’t have to include some
deciphering time, also. The whole purpose of taking notes is to use them and
use them often. The more you use them, the more they improve.
CHOOSE
THE RIGHT!!!
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