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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