successful student part 3

Successful students

Part 3

7. Successful students understand the actions affect learning. Successful students know their personal behavior affect their feelings and emotions that in the turn can affect learning.

     If you can act in a certain way that most normally produce particular feelings, you will begin to experience those feelings. Act like you’re bored, and you’ll become bored. Act like you’re disinterested. You will become disinterested. So the next time you have trouble concentrating in the class room, “act” like an interested person: lean forward, maintain eye contact with the professor, nod occasionally, take notes, and ask questions. Not only will you benefit from your actions, your classmates and professor may also get more exited and enthusiastic.

8. Successful students talk about what there’re 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 whether or not you know 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 into words.  So next time you study, don’t do it silently. Talk about notes problems reading etc. with friends, recite to a char, organize an oral study group, and pretend you’re teaching your peers. “Talk learning produces” a whole host of memory traces that result more learning.

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