Academic Success Strategies

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Academic Success Strategies

• Cleary New Student Orientation

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Rely on your personal strengths

• Maturity
• Multi tasking ability
• Experience in meeting deadlines
• Experience in working collaboratively
• Ability to recognize the complexities of problems

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Classroom Protocol

• Prepare before class
• Be actively engaged in class
• Review material soon after and contact instructor
  with questions
• Be considerate
• Remember online etiquette
• DONT USE ALL CAPS!
• Sign your emails
• Use the Subject Line as instructor dictates
• The rules of common courtesy alwas apply when
  responding to students comments

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How do you learn?

• Visual Learners
• Learn by reading
• Kinesthetic Learners
• Learn by doing
• Auditory Learners
• Learn by listening
• Most students have a predominant learning style
  but combine all

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Learning Styles

• Visual Learners
• Need to write information down in order to
  remember it.
• Seeing is believing
• Logical, analytical, focused
• Work well alone, but needs a book!
• Pay attention to detail
• Leisure crossword puzzles

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Learning Styles

• Kinesthetic Learners
• Hands-on approach to learning
• Imaginative, inventive, intuitive
• Perceive patterns easily. Can put stuff together
• Leisure model trains

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Learning Styles

• Auditory Learners
• Learn best through conversations
• Interested in people
• Persuasive, friendly, articulate
• Leisure attending concerts and parties

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Time Management Matrix
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Summary

• Rely on your personal strengths
• Adapt your learning style for success
• Manage your time to meet important goals
• Take advantage of Cleary resources
• Sharpen your distance learning skills
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