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
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
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 exited and enthusiastic.
8. …talk
about 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, it’s a proven learning tool. Transferring ideas into words provides
the most direct path for moving knowledge from short-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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