Successful Students
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5. Don’t sit in the back of the room.
Successful students minimize classroom 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 (see no. 4). Why so they expose themselves to the
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 should 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 while the material is
still fresh on your mind helps you to learn more. The more you learn then, the
less you’ll 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.
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