Successful Students Part 3

Successful Students Part 3

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

If you act in a certain way that normally produces particular feeling. Act like you’re bored and you’ll become bored. Act like you’re disinterested. So the next time you have trouble concentrating in the classroom, ‘act’ likes 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 from your actions, your classmates and professor may also get more excited and enthusiastic.

8.  Successful students tell 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 word 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 and oral study group, pretend you’re teaching your peers. “Talk-learning