Successful
Students
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7. . . .
Understand that actions affect learning. Successful students know their
personal behavior affect their feelings and emotions which in turn can affect
learning.
If you act
in a certain way that normally produces particular feelings, you will begin to
experience those feelings. Act like you’re bored, and you’ll become bored act
like your disinterested, and you’ll become disinterested. So the next time you
have trouble concentrating in the classroom, “act” like an interested person:
learn forward, place your feet flat on the floor, maintain eye contact with the
professor, nod occasionally, take notes, and ask questions. Not only will you
benefit directly from your actions, your classmates and professor may also get
more excited and enthusiastic.
8 . . . . Talk
about what they’re learning. Successful students get to know something well
enough that they can put it into words. Talking about something, with friends
or classmates is not only good for checking whether or not you know something,
it’s a proven learning tool. Transferring ideas into words provides the most
direct path for moving knowledge from short-term to long-term memory. You
really don’t “Know” the material until you can put into words. So, next time
you study, don’t do it silently. Talk about notes, problems, readings, etc.
with friends, recite to a chair, organize an oral study group, pretend you’re
teaching your peers. “Talk-learning” produces a whole host of memory traces
that result in more learning.
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