Your Big Job: Learning to be Responsible for Your Grades

Your Big Job: Learning to be Responsible for Your Grades

Being Responsible Means Control You control your grade. Active classroom participation can help

your grades improve. That means paying attention in class, doing the things your teacher asks you to do during class, and trying to keep your mind on what the teacher is trying to teach the class each day.

Set Goals Do you want to participate in the next

incentive? Find out what you have to achieve in

order to participate. Your goals are your own; each person is

different.

Ask Questions Asking questions to yourself helps you

concentrate on the assignment as you search for your answers.

Questioning your texts and lectures helps you study.

You Are a Team with Your Teacher Your teachers want you to succeed, but

it takes two participants to be an effective team.

Consider yourself the MVP of your team, and remember your goals.

Use the Portal and your teachers’ blogs.

Take Good Notes Takes notes that you understand. Attempt to be organized. Review your notes daily.

Talk about What You are Learning Putting the things you learned in class

into words helps you process these ideas.

Many times you do not “know” information until you put it into words.

Use your friends to help you understand.

Do Not Cram for Tests Specialists agree that distributing your

time—having more stops and starts—helps you understand more information than in a late-night (or early morning) cram session.

Time: Your Enemy or Your Friend? Do not procrastinate! Wow, this is the

most difficult part of managing your grades.

If you are going to be in control of your life, you must be in control of time.

If you cannot control time, it will control you!

Works Cited Ludewig, Larry. "Ten Commandments for

Effective Study Skills." Teaching Professor. Dec 1992: 6-10. Print.