Successful Students
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7.
… understand that
actions affect learning. Successful students know their personal behavior
affects 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 be bored. Act like you’re
disinterested, and you’ll be 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 too. Transferring ideas into words provides the most direct
path for moving knowledge from short-term to long-term memory. If you really don’t
“know” material until you can put it into words. So, next time you study, you don’t
do it silently. Talk about notes, problems, reading, 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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