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, 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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