Most of the time people think a student is successful when they get
good academic grades. But when you look a little closer, those who
achieve good grades are sometimes unhappy students who have only learned
to do what teachers ask.
It’s also said that a student is successful when he or she finds
something that motivates him or her to go every day to university, sit
down for several hours and seek answers to the questions their teachers
and colleagues pose.
A student can be successful only in an area and gain social recognition too, for example in a sports or artistic field.
But sometimes we must think beyond, questions like: Does a s
successful student always find success when he or she leaves the
University?
Various studies show that the answer… is not necessarily. Actually,
sometimes they feel lost without the tight schedules and the need to
determine their own execution, after many years that others identify and
assess their performance.
One option is teaching Metacognition, but is not necessarily a good
way, especially if it is seen more as another academic subject and it
fails to explain the benefits of it outside the classroom. That’s why I
think t the best thing is to clearly explain the use of it in everyday
life.
Another element of success, without doubt, it’s planning goals. How
many students go from one task to another without stopping to meditate
on the impact of their work and the formation of skills? This is the
reason when they are ready to complete their studies, they are so
anxious and it’s usual to hear someone say, “I don’t know that I know”.
The worst comment of all, though, is “I do not feel confident about
myself”.
So when I think about a program with a meta cognitive strategy, this
should add several elements to push to students to success, both inside
and outside the college classroom, and I just will mention a few
elements:
- Meta cognitive Skills, applied not only to deliver tasks,
but solving everyday problems, planning tasks and goals, scope of
goals, analysis of resources, search solutions, environments, analysis
and synthesis of information, search for information skills, and
handling computer devices.
- Cognitive abilities, of course, reading, writing because
they will be essential in any environment. Math skills are not left
behind, regardless of the working area, will be essential, and I cannot
forget skills of analysis and synthesis of information applied to the
reading.
- Planning of short, medium, and long-term goals, not
academic goals, but life goals, where they see themselves at 6 months, a
year or 10.
- Creativity, no doubt the resolution of tasks is a good
scope, but this implies flexible thinking and this is so important to
the adaptation of the environment.
- Leadership, ability to see myself as a leader capable of
action not those others require them, but begin tasks on its own
initiative, by owns efforts and a team.
- Ability to adapt to not usual environments. This feature
is curious, but there are many university students who do not know to do
outside of the environment which for so many years has nestled. Even if
they have been at work in companies by way of training for the
exterior, they continue seeing themselves as “student” and this
prevents them from understanding that the time they spend doing work in
real environments is only a preliminary step towards “real world”
- Ability to rely on own strengths and know the weaknesses.
Sounds easy, right?, because it is one of the major weaknesses of the
University. Students are told all the time what to do, when to do it,
how to do it.
- Extrinsic motivation, of course will certainly be something good in all undertaken in the future.
- Search for success. There is something called the “the
imposter syndrome,” it’s linked particularly to higher education
students, and it’s the fact that people do not feel like they have
worked hard to achieve goals, they believe that all have been gotten is
based on luck. But luck is the audacity of being at the right time,
with work and precise skills.
- Sense of humor, successful people has the feature to take
life with philosophy. They learn from their mistakes and make them
successful.
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