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 may
almost get more exited and enthusiastic.
8. . . . talk about what their learning .
Successful students get to know something well enough that they can put into
words. Talking about something, with friends or classmates, is not only good
for checking wether 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” materials
until you can put it into words. So, next time you study, don’t do it silently.
Talk about notes, problems, reading etc. with friends, recite to a chair,
organize an oral study group, pretend you’ve teaching your peers. “Talk-learning”
produce a whole host of memory traces that result in more learning.
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