As 198: Academic Strategies For Excellence

Reading the article Lake and von Baeyer (2005) “Tips for Successful Students”, I realize that most characteristics are necessary for one to succeed as a student in any area of life. For example, one must ask questions and take notes in order to interact with the professor and further their knowledge in a particular subject. These two skills coincide together along with the initiative to achieve a certain stardom. One aspect of learning is never lonesome, though it is possible to be additionally gifted in one region over another.

Read Lake and von Baeyer's article, “Tips for Successful Students." Also, review the characteristics of a successful student as explained in the lecture. As you consider these, which is your strongest characteristic? Why? How will this characteristic help you to become a successful student in your program of study?

Success in college requires one to identify key aspects of personal responsibility, understand the relationship between personal responsibility and college success, and establish a specific plan to follow that will ensure he or she incorporates the various elements of personal responsibility in every facet of his or her college experience.

During my high school years, I can confidently say I have excelled in my academic endeavours. This success is partially due to my desire to learn. I am always intrigued by the lessons and concepts that are at the core of assigned work. My passion for learning has facilitated my learning process; because I am usually interested in the material that is being taught, my ability to retain and understand information is heightened. My academic success is also due to my drive to do the best I can. Since grade nine, I have demanded excellence from myself in all academic subjects. I strived to perform to the best of my abilities in the first high school years so that I would adopt that habit early and take it with me through the senior high school years. Finally, my academic excellence

I have listed below some great tips for students to be successful while in college, please feel free to implement them as you feel needed:

Before my admission to Houston Community College, I was lost on how to succeed in my courses. However, my admission to this institute exposed me to different courses which educated me on different lessons on how not only to survive in college, but also how to succeed in my classwork. There are two main lessons that I wish to pass on to other students on how they can flourish in their courses.

The areas that were the strongest for me on the College Student Inventory was, Math and Science, Attitude Towards Educators, Family Emotional Support, Sense of Financial Security and Academic Assistance. Now the math and science goes along with the attitude toward educators. Both of these were high because my mom was my math teacher and I respected all my teachers. I saw firsthand all the crap they got and stuff students tried on them. I just did what I was told and got along great with my teachers. If they respected me, I respected them back, I believe respect is just like a two way street. Family Support and Financial Security also go together for me. My parents taught me to be tight and careful with my money. Always plan for if something happens you will be fine and can take it and not affect you to bad. Also the biggest thing is not to stretch myself out with loans and have showed me to save up and pay cash and how much you will pay in interest. Lastly is the Academic assistance,

This course activity is your opportunity to define the foundation on which you’ll build improvements in study habits, keeping in mind the goals you set and your definition of success.

Academically I learned that realizing your problem and hard work will make you successful in that area. Going into junior year I thought I was an Amazing writer but I was not and the only way to prove to myself would be through hard work. I learned that I am very lazy when it comes to school which makes me not to rise up to the full potential I have academically. By overcoming this I learned to work harder and seek help since it only benefits you. This can be reflected in second semester when I got a B in the class I was once struggling in. By this struggle I learned that effort and learning to deal with a struggle properly will help and improve

Victims, unlike creators who unremittingly ponder alternatives which lead in the upshot they wish, attempt to find blame for negative, unpleasant situations and obstacles that occur in their lives. Some people become victims in their environment when rather than by accepting personal responsibility, gaining self-awareness and believing in themselves, they accept the victim role of trusting that outer forces decide the outcomes and experiences of their lives. Referring to victims, On Course states, “make decisions carelessly, letting the future happen by chance rather than by choice” (22). Victims do not have strategies, no visualization of the life they want, and no motivation to design the future they desire. Creators seeks ways to remain motivated, adapts to situations and they try to prevent the situation from occurring again. Creators control the route that they want their life to end up being on; they do not allow life to control them or their future.

Being a successful student may involve some of the characteristics such as: organization, time, studying, and believing you can achieve.

Life as a university student can be tough, but to make sure you get your money and times worth out of it you need to know how to be a successful student. Being a successful student requires a combination of attending your classes, doing your homework, and monitoring your level of stress. This may not sound too hard, but once you are in the moment and need to juggle all of these things along with all of the other responsibilities and challenges life entails it may begin to seem like a much more difficult task.

A practical virtue that I feel is very important for everyone to exemplify especially students is that of ambition. For students this virtue can be directly applied to their academic pursuits. It’s important for students to be committed and passionate about their studies. Though, ambition can quickly be tilted off of its perch on the golden mean. If a student is too ambitious and tends to have perfectionist like qualities it becomes much easier for that student to get frustrated quickly when he begins to struggles. Once this strong sense of frustration kicks in the odds of this students decided to give up are immediately heightened. This is an unhealthy amount of pressure to put on oneself, and this mentality can be very difficult to detach from once you have sank into its clutches. On the other hand if a student is content with passing with the minimum requirements, then it is quite likely that that student will not retain much of the information that was covered in his class. It is important for a student to be driven in their pursuit of knowledge, but they must find the proper level of ambition to make sure they will have the highest chance of succeeding.

To become a success in life, we all need to learn to become a good student in every aspect of life. Becoming a good student takes much work and self-discipline. There are many ways that a student can stand out from the rest of the class. These good students are distinguished by their attitude, intellectual skills, consciousness, and achievement.

I think this course has more prepared me for teaching in higher education through providing various perspectives and considerations around diverse challenges within a teaching and learning environment. This course taught about effective teaching practices that encourages a teaching professional to