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 the 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 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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