Successful Students 7-8
7… Understand that actions affect learning. Successful
students know their personal behavior affects their learning and emotions which
can affect learning.
If you
act a certain way that normally that 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 be 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 fromyou actions, your classmates and professor may also gat
more excited and enthusiastic.
8… 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
your own words provide the most direct path for learning path for knowledge
from short-term to long term memory. You really don’t “know” material until you
can put it into your own 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 your teaching your peers. “Talk-Learning”
produces a whole host of memory traces that result in more learning.
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