Deputy Principal

Study Behaviours

Good Study Behaviours – time for reflection

As students are about to finish Term 1, it’s time to reflect on how the year has begun academically.

If you look at many successful people there are certain characteristic behaviours that they demonstrate.

They behave as if they have already succeeded.
They are self confident.
They are focused on where they want to go.
They can tell you what their goals are.
They approach obstacles as an opportunity to grow and learn.
They seem fearless.
They are usually very positive.

They are able to identify their strengths, acknowledge their weaknesses and work towards turning those weaknesses into strengths.

If we put these behaviours into a context of study, are you a success?

Do you behave as if you have already achieved academic success?
Are you confident in your abilities to achieve the academic results you want?
Do you know exactly where you want to go academically at school?
Have you identified and articulated your academic goals?
Do you see 'less than desirable’ results in exams and tests as an opportunity to focus your attention in the future?
Do you take risks by trying new things in your approach to study?
Do you feel very positive about your learning and study experiences?

If you can say yes, to most of the sentences above, then that’s fantastic!! If not, maybe you need to take up the challenge of changing the way you think, act and feel about study. It’s important that everyone learn how to behave ‘like study matters'.

Junior students would want to be beginning to certainly think about the above dot points while senior students should be doing/ticking most of the dot points.

“Will” Rogers was a Cherokee-American cowboy, comedian, social commentator, vaudeville performer and actor who travelled around the world three times (in the early 1900’s) and wrote more than 4,000 nationally-syndicated newspaper columns, and became a world-famous figure.

He once said “The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.” Don’t succumb to “parking your car” as you strive to do your best on the road to academic success.

Luke Green

Deputy Principal Year 7-9