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 turn in can affect learning.

If you act in a certain way normally produces particular feeling, you will begin to experience those feelings. Act like you’re bored, and you’ll become bored. Act like you’re disinterested. So the next time you have trouble to concentrating in the classroom, “act” like an interested person: learn forward, place your feet flat on the floor, maintain eye contact with professor, nod occasionally, take notes, and ask questions. Not only will you benefit directly from your actions, your classmates and professor nay also get more excited and enthusiastic.

8. Successful students talk about what they’re learning. Successful students get 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 to know something it’s not 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 in 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 “produce a whole host of memory traces that results in more learning.