Successful Students

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7. … understand that actions affect learning. Successful students know that personal behavior affect their feelings and emotions which in turn can affect learning.

If you act 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 ocassionally, take notes, and ask questions Not only will you benefit directly from your actions, your classmates and professor may also get excited and enthusiastic.

8…. talk about what they’re learning. Successful students get to know something well enough that they 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 that 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 and 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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