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In a previous blog, “7.25 Academic Survival Skills that Every Student Must Develop”, we detailed each of the survival skills that you must need to be a successful student. Each of these skills will help you Play Your “A” Game inside and outside the classroom this school year.

Today we are going to address the first academic survival skill - LISTENING!

If you think about most of your day as a student, the majority of your time is is spent listening to your professor lecture.  So if you are taking 15 credits of college courses, this tells me you are spending a minimum of 15 hours a week of consistent listening. As a high school student, at least 6 hours of the day is spent in the classroom listening to teachers or participating in class; which equates to about 30 hours of classroom listening.

So as you see, if we are going to spend most of our week listening, it is essential to become an active listener.

Here are a few things you can do to improve your classroom listening skills as a high school student, college student or non-traditional student. Read the rest of this entry »

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The majority of things you learn during your educational career , comes through listening in class. So be an active listener and LISTEN CAREFULLY. Here are few suggestions.

1. MOVE CLOSER to the front of the class so you won’t have any trouble seeing, hearing or paying attention.

2. FOCUS YOUR ATTENTION on what the professor or speaker is saying - not on the upcoming weekend or yesterday’s dinner, or the sound of the speakrs’ voice, etc. But focus on the content of his lecture.

3. EVALUATE WHAT YOU HEAR and think about what the speaker’s words mean and how they relate to what you already know about the subject.

4. TAKE NOTES, since it’s impossible for even the best of listeners to remmeber all that has been said. Write down those things that are most important.

Your listening skills are key to your Academic Success. So Play Your “A” game and Actively Listen.

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