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 feelings, you will begin to experience those feelings. Act like you’re
bored, and you’ll become bored. Act like you’re disinterested, and you’ll
become disinterested. So the next time you have trouble concentrating in the
classroom, “act” like 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, your classmates and professor may also get more
excited and enthusiastic.
8. Successful students 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 whether or not you know something, it’s a 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 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 you’re teaching your peers.
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