successful students

Successful students

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7. …understand that actions affect learning. Successful students know there personal behavior affect their feeling and emotions which can affect learning.

 If you act in a certain way that normally produces particular feelings, you will begin to feel those feelings. Act like your bored and you’ll produce those feelings. Act like your disinterested and you’ll become disinterested. So the next time you have trouble concentrating in the class room, “act” like an interested person: lean forward, place your feet flat on the floor, and 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 professors may get more enthusiastic and exited.

8. …talk about what they’re learning. Successful students get to learn something well enough that they can put it into their own words. Talking about something, with friends or classmates, is not only good for checking whether or not that you know something, it’s a proven learning tool. Transferring ideas into words is the most direct path into moving knowledge from short-term to long-term memory. You don’t really “know” material until you put it into words. So, next time that 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 that your teaching your peers. “talk-learning” produces a whole host of memory traces that result in more learning

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