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The Seven Characteristics Of A Good Student

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What kind of Characteristics do you think are required to become a “good” Student? That’s a question that many behaviorists have tried to answer, and according Dr. Maryellen Weimer these characteristics can be summed up into seven. These characteristics are applied to being a student with presumably means that it’s intended to apply towards all educational subjects. Out of seven there was one that stood out to me the most and that was “Good learners recognize that a lot of learning isn’t fun”. The reason why this one stood out to me the most is because of my own personal experience in my educational past. In Dr. Weimer article, she lists out seven Characteristics of a good learner. These consist of multiple traits that good students have, and with elaborations on why they are vital to a student’s ability to learn. The one the stood out to me the most was Good learns recognize that a lot of learning isn’t fun. The description of this characteristic states that even though the majority of learning has to do with boring repetition and minding-numbing attention to detail it’s what’s has to be done for the pieces to come together. The reason why I personally feel this is the most important is because of my own learning style. The majority of the work I do is done towards the latter end of the deadline, which means I have to cram a lot of my work in. When I study it usually within a short time span when I have to really sit down without any distractions and hammer out the

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