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Successful Learning
Strategies

Areas for Improvement

Self-Directed Strategic Learning
and Committed Effort Strategies

  • Set realistic short-term goals to plan and accomplish challenging long-term goals.
  • Acquire sufficient information to plan schedules, manage time, manage expected outcomes, avoid cynicism and achieve goals.
  • Create a suitable learning environment that eliminates noise, distractions, stress and discomfort.
  • Demonstrate learning efficacy and use effective study skills to achieve academic success.
  • Make time to self-assess and monitor progress honestly and comprehensively.
  • Use discipline, responsibility, curiosity, imagination, and visualization to guide learning efforts.
  • Develop effective writing, reading, listening, higher-order thinking, non-verbal, and learning technology skills.
  • Use abstraction, innovation and persistence to find solutions when others want to give up.
  • Communicate (written, oral, visual, listening, reading, non verbally) eloquently in diverse settings
  • Explore, use, and reflect upon a wide variety of subjects
  • Interpret, evaluate, and solve problems in complex systems
  • Be ambitious and self-competitive
  • Set high expectations and achieve high standards

Self-Directed Strategic Learning
and Committed Effort Strategies

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Self-Motivation

  • Recognize that academic success is a result of high standards and one's deep-seated desire and ability to work hard.
  • Learn to be competitive with oneself and not be satisfied with mediocrity.
  • Feel great joy and fulfillment in attaining goals.
  • Eagerly set priorities, persist, and achieve goals that support personal values, challenge capabilities, and promote benefits.
  • Work with a learning community (including instructors, peers, and mentors) and use team work and support resources when necessary.
  • Manage stress, face difficulties with patience and endurance, and learn from mistakes.
  • Get adequate exercise and sleep.
  • Copy the strategies used by mentors and successful intentional learners.

elf-Motivation
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Autonomy

  • Like to work and think independently
  • Take the initiative and responsibility for one's own learning.
  • Be bold and take risks to accomplish increasingly difficult challenges.
  • Be flexible and ready to manage change.
  • Set schedules and organize and manage tasks to accomplish goals efficiently.
  • Reflect and then discuss what's learned with others.
  • Listen to feedback and gather relevant information to make informed decisions.
  • Have back up plans to manage contigencies.

Autonomy
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