Successful Students
Part 3
7. Successful students understand that actions affect
learning. Successful students know their behavior affect their feelings and
emotions that in turn can affect learning.
If you act
in a certain way normally produces particular 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: 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 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 provide the most direct path for moving knowledge from short-term to
long-term memory. You really don’t “know” material until you can put in 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 an 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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