Student Success Tips

Student Success Tips

1.   Attend New Student Orientation at the beginning of the fall or Spring Semester. Brenda

2.   GEN 101S, First Year Experience, provides excellent content and resources to be a successful student. It is likely that this class will be part of your first semester at Edison.

3.   Be sure to attend all classes, and be on time.

4.   To reduce distraction, sit near the front of the class.

5.   Keep a copy of the syllabus for each class so that you will know what is going on, what you should be doing, and how soon you need to get it done.

6.   Be a good listener. Focus and concentrate on main points.

7.   Take good notes in class, and review your notes within 24 hours. Then, review your notes periodically to help you retain information. Index cards with the key information are also a helpful way to review.

8.   Study! To be a successful college student, study at least two hours a week for every hour you spend in class. This is a minimum.

9.   Determine an ideal space, and plan study time when you are at your best to retain information.

10.                     Maintain a student planner to keep track of important dates and projects.

11.                     Apply additional time management strategies, including planning, setting goals, and prioritizing schoolwork and your additional responsibilities.

12.                     Avoid marathon study periods. Instead, study for short intervals with a break in between. For example, study for 30 minutes, take a 3-minute break, come back and review, then repeat the process.

13.                     Get to know other students in your classes for added support and to study together when possible.

14.                     Participate in class, and ask your instructor questions when needed. Meet with them during office hours for additional support and guidance.

15.                     See your faculty advisor every semester to register for classes.

16.                     Make use of the Library and Learning Center for study help and free tutoring services.

17.                     Being a full-time student is your 40-hour-per-week job, and like many full-time employees, you probably will not finish the job in 40 hours.

18.                     Be sure to allow time for physical activity as well as class and study time. This will help you to focus on your studies. Locker rooms and a work-out room are available on campus.

19.                     (TAA only) Plan Ahead! When you have more than a 30 week-day break in classes you will not be paid unemployment. Be sure to put aside money each week so you have money on the weeks you do not get paid.

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7 Habits of Highly Successful Students Habit 5

7 Habits of Highly Successful Students

Habit 5

5. Seek First to Understand, and then to be Understood

Because most people don’t listen very well, one of the great frustrations in life is that many don’t feel understood. This habit will ensure your teen learns the most important communication skill there is: active listening.

Why is this habit the key to communication? It’s because the deepest need of the human heart is to be understood. Everyone wants to be respected and valued for who they are---a unique, on-of-a-kind, never-to-be-cloned individual. People won’t expose their soft middles unless they feel genuine love and understanding. Once they feel it, however, they will tell you more than you may want to hear. People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.

Listen with your eyes, heart, and ears. 7 present of communication is contained in the words we use. The rest comes from body language (53 percent) and how we say words, or the tone and feeling reflected in our voice (40 percent).

Most people are eager to talk and had rather talk than listen. We have one mouth and two ears. This means we should listen twice as much as we talk. We actually learn more while listening rather than when we talk. Listen to learn and learn to listen.

Listen, really listen, for understanding.

Seek first to understand then to be understood-- LISTEN.

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Student Success Statement #33

Student Success Statement 

"What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right."

-Howard Cosell

Reflection:

I think that this statement is trying to say that people shouldn't just follow others just because they are popular and they are doing it. People should do what they want to do and not listen t what others are saying or doing. they have to do what they think they are going to have to do to get where they want to get. they can't just follow what others have to do because if they are choosing to choose the wrong then they will get to nowhere.

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 learning.

    

     If you act in a certain way that normally produces particular feelings, you will begin to experience those feelings. Act like your bored, and you’ll become bored. Act like your disinterested, and you’ll become disinterested. So the next time you have trouble concentrating in the classroom, “act” like an interested person: lean 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 it 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 not words provides the most direct path for moving knowledge from short-term to long-term memory. You really don’t “know” material until you put it into words. So, next time you study, don’t do it silently. Talk about notes, problems, readings, etc. with friend, recite to a chair, organize an oral study group, pretend you are teaching your peers. “Talk-learning” produces a whole host of memory traces that results in more learning.

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