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 your bored, and
you’ll become disinterested. So the next time you have trouble concentrate 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 home exited and enthusiastic.
8. …talk about what they’re learning. Successful students get
to know something well enough tt 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, its 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, reading, etc. with friends, recite to a
chair, organize an oral study group, pretend you’re teaching your peers. ’’Talk-learn’’
produces a whole host of memory traces that result in more learning.
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