Strategic Elements That Improve Academic Success

(a) how our culture perceives the importance of having an education
(b) the messages (verbal and nonverbal) that we get from our home and our environment about learning and having an education
(c) learned behaviors that will affect our learning styles
(d) the “Pygmalion effect”,
(e) our internal self-talk
(f) our self-efficacy
(g) post-traumatic stress disorders
(h) anxiety
(i) and the effects of rejection, low-self-esteem, abuse, on our learning ability and upon these teaching a positive self-talk to students.