Successful Students

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7. …understand that actions affect learning. Successful students know their personal behavior affect their feeling 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 will become bored. Act like you’re disinterested and you will 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 ground maintain eye contact with the professor may also get more excited and enthusiastic.

8. …talk about what you are 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 not only good for checking whether or not you know something, it’s 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 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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