successful students part 2

Successful Students

           Part 2

 

4. Successful students learn that a student and a teacher make a team. Most teachers 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 efforts of any teacher; if you have learned your material, the instructor takes some justifiable pride in teaching. Join forces with your instructor, they are not an enemy, and you share the same interest, the same goal –in short, your teammates. Get to know your professor. You’re the most valuable players on the team. Your jobs are to work together for mutual success.

Neither wishes to chalk up a losing season. Be a team player

5. Successful students don’t sit in the back. Successful students minimize classroom distractions that interfere learning, students want the best seat available for their entertainment dollars, but willingly seek the worse seat for their entertainment dollars. Students who sit in the back cannot possibly be their teachers team mate (see no. 4). Why do they expose themselves to the temptations of inactive classroom experiences and distractions of all the people between them and the instructor? Of course? We know they choose the back of the classroom because….

Choose the right!