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What does a successful student look like?
By Tobi Kibel Piatek | January 22, 2009
A student taking this course for credit posted an interesting list of characteristics of a successful adult student. You can find the list on the DePaul Training Centers website
I think many of the points on this list are equally characteristic of successful young students, and, when missing, offer warning signs that might alert you that a student is at-risk of dropping out. My student points out that a key warning sign is the lack of desire to engage in the activities and interactions taking place in the classroom or program.
She says that “when a student begins to move away from the characteristics on the list, I am aware they are at risk.”
THE LIST for Successful Adult Learners
The following is a list of some characteristics of successful students. Characteristics of a successful student transfer into positive work place behaviors. This list is a description of what a hard-working student does and what a teacher likes to see. By learning these characteristics, you may better understand the day-to-day and class-to-class behavior of successful students. The idea is to provide you with guidelines you can follow which will help you get down to the business of becoming a serious, successful student and future office professional.
· Successful students attend class regularly and on time.
· Successful students have the ability to work independently and monitor his/her own progress.
· Successful students listen and train themselves to pay attention.
· Successful students take responsibility for themselves and their actions.
· Successful students turn in assignments that look neat and sharp. They take the time to produce a final product that looks good, and reflects care and pride in their work.
· Successful students demonstrate that they care about their grades and are willing to work to improve them
· Successful students demonstrate a willingness to receive instruction/direction from an Instructor and follow through with the presented expectations.
· Successful students ask appropriate questions and are active participants in their learning.
· Successful students pay attention in class and are courteous and polite.
· Successful students have the ability to apply reading strategies to extract important information from text and apply this information to their work. Our classroom textbooks are written at approximately a 9th grade reading level.
· Successful students have the ability to apply upper elementary level English skills to writing assignments.
QUESTION: What do you consider the characteristics of a successful student?
High school
Middle school
Elementary
Please post your thoughts and ideas to this blog.
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