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
feeling. Act like you’re bored and you’ll become bored. Act like you’re
disinterested. So the next time you have trouble concentrating in the
classroom, ‘act’ likes 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. Successful
students tell 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 word
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
and oral study group, pretend you’re teaching your peers. “Talk-learning
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