Successful Students
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7. …understand the 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 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 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” 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 your peers. “Talk-learning”
produces a whole host of memory traces that result in more learning.
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