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 certain way that normally produces particular
feelings, you will begin to experience those feelings. Act like you’re bored,
and you you’ll become bored. Act like you’re disinterested, and you’ll become
disinterested. So the next time you have trouble concentrating in the
classroom, “act” like an interested person: lean 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 you 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 a good thing 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 form
short-term to long term memory. You really don’t “know” material until you can
put it 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 ypur peers. “talk-learning” produces a whole host
of memory traces that result in more learning.
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