Successful
Students
Part
3
7.
Successful students understand that actions affect learning. Successful
students know their personal behavior affect their feelings and emotions that
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 disinterested. So the
next time you have trouble concentrating in the classroom, “act” like an
interested person: learn 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 exited and enthusiastic.
8. Successful students talk about
what they’re learning. Successful students get to know something well enough
that they can put it onto 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 in 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 you peers.
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