ü 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 a short-term to
long-term memory. You really don’t “know” materials until you
can put it into words. So, next time you study, don’t do it silently. Talks
about notes, problems, reading, etc. with friends, recite to a chair, organize
an oral study group, and pretend your teaching your peers. “Talk-learning”
producers a whole host of memory trace that result in more learning.
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