seven habits of successful students
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The Seven Habits
of Highly Successful
Students
Russell Conwell Educational Services Center
Temple University
•Take charge of your learning experience.
•Use all the tools and resources available
to you.
•Start now; don’t wait till it’s too late.
•Ask for what you need.
•Advocate for yourself.
•Talk to you’re Advisor/Counselor.
•Talk to your professors.
•Ask for help from your peers.
•Get a tutor.
Consult with and review:
•Career Counselor
•Professors
•People working in the field
•Campus career fairs
•Job listings
•Professional publications
•Identify goals and obligations.
•Separate long term from short term goals.
•Set priorities and revisit them.
•Use a time management plan.
•Make the work relevant to you.
•Make your own performance standards reasonable.
•Make sure your fully understand the task.
•Calm yourself from performance fears and
fear of the unknown.
•“Chunk” large tasks into a series of smaller ones.
•Allocate appropriate time for each task
and don’t feel guilty about it.
•Give yourself rewards at reasonable intervals.
•Make internal deadlines so you’ll end up
with extra time.
See tests as opportunities to show
the professor what you know…
…and find out what you need to learn.
•Be quiet.
•Maintain comfortable eye contact.
•Display openness.
•Send acknowledgements.
•Give back understanding.
•Pay attention to non-verbal cues.
•Listen for requests and intentions.
•Seek real life learning experiences.
•Value differences and build upon them.
•Participate in campus life outside the classroom.
•Volunteer.
•Take a course that requires
service learning.
•Be an intern.
•Join a student organization.
•Be a research assistant.
•Attend campus
and community cultural events.
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