Heads up, gang! Are you ready for books, tests, teachers, and study?
It doesn’t matter what sort of school you attend. It doesn’t matter whether you’re in fourth grade or a college freshman. It doesn’t matter whether you spent last year in a classroom or distance-learning in your kitchen. Here are some tips that will help you meet your full potential as a student this year.
Be Present
Come to the classroom ready to learn. Before the class begins, have the requisite books, notebooks, and homework out on the table. If the classroom has open seating, sit near the front, where there are fewer distractions. Once the class begins, pay attention. Take notes. Listen and learn.
Jeff Minick
Author
Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
