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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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