Take Control of Homework Part 2

Take Control of Homework

So It Doesn’t Control You

Part 2

Keep Things in Perspective

Know how much weight each assignment or test carries, and use your time accordingly. Don’t waste time, but be wise and smart. Doing the most important things first is being wise and smart.

Get More Involved

Keep your mind from wandering by taking notes, underlining sections, discussing topics with others or relating your homework to something you’re studying in another class. Learn actively and not passively. Be anxiously engaged in your studies and you will have a great experience. Demonstrate good attitude toward home assignments, and you will begin to love doing it.

Organize your Information

People process information in different ways. Some people like draw pictures or charts to digest information, others prefer to read out loud or make detailed outlines. Try to find methods that work best for you. ask your teacher for recommendations if you’re having trouble.

CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!

Successful Student 1-2

Successful Student

1-2

Successful Students exhibit a combination of successful attitudes and behaviors as well as intellectual capacity. Successful students . . .

1… are responsible and active. Successful students get involved in their students, accept responsibility for their own education, and are active participants in it! Responsibility means control. It’s the difference between leading and being led. Your own effects control your grade, you earn the glory or deserve the blame, you make the choice. Active classroom participation improves grades without increasing study time. You can sit there, act bored,  daydream, or sleep. Or, you can actively listen think, question, and take notes like someone in charge of their learning experience. Either option cost one class period. However, the former method will require a large degree of additional work outside of class to achieve the same degree of learning the latter provides at one sitting. The choice is yours.

2… have educational goals. Successful students have legitimate goals and are motivated by what they represent in terms of career aspirations and life’s desire.

 Ask yourself these questions: what am I doing here? Why have I chosen to be sitting here now?  Is there some better place I could be? What does my presence here mean to me? Answers to these questions represent you “Hot Buttons” and are, without a doubt, the most important factors in your success . you are familiar with what these hot buttons represent and refer to them often, especially when you tire of being a student , nothing can stop you; if you aren’t and don’t everything can and will!

Choose the right!!!!!

Student Success Statement

“I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after”

Ernest Hemingway

Pay attention to what’s right and what’s wrong.

Always choose the right is what this statement is trying to say that if you choose the wrong, you will indeed have a guilty conscience.