Successful students 7-8

Successful students

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7… understand that actions effect learning. Successful students know their personal behaviour affect their feelings and emotions which in turn can effect learning.

If you act in a certain way that normally produces particular feelngs, you will begin to exoerience those feelings. Act like you’re bored and you’ll become bored. Act like you’re disinterested, and you’ll become disintersted. So the next time you have trouble concertrating in the classroom, “act” like an interest person: lean forward place your feet flat on the floor, maintain aye contact with the proffessor, nod occasionally take notes and ask questions. Not only will you benefit directly from your actions your classmates and proffessor may also get 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 wether or not you know something, it’s a proven learning tool. Transfering ideas into words provides the most direct path formoving 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 yoy’re teaching your peers. “talks-learning” produces a whole host of memory traces that result in more learning.

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