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7. . Understand that actions affect learning successful students know their personal behavior affect their feelings and emotions which 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 your bored, and you’ll become bored. Act like you’re disinterested, and you’ll become disinterested. So next time you have trouble concentrating in the classroom, “act” like an interested person; lean forward, place your feet flat on the ground, maintain eye contact with the professor, not 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. . Talk about what they’re learning. Successful students get to know 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 you know something it’s proven learning tool. Transferring ideas into words provides the most direct path for moving knowledge from short to long-term memory. “Talk learning” produces a a whole host of memory traces that results in more learning

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5. Don’t sit in the back of the room. Successful students minimize classroom distractions that interfere with learning.

Students want the best seat available for their entertainment dollars, but willingly seek the worst seat for their educational dollars. Students who sit in the back cannot possibly be their professor’s teammate (see no 4). Why do they expose themselves to the temptations if inactive classroom experiences and distractions of all the people between them and their instructor. Of course, we know they choose the back of the classroom because they seek invisibility or anonymity, both of which are antithetical to efficient and effective learning. If you are trying not to be part of the class, why, then, are you wasting your time? Push your hot buttons is there something else you should be doing with your time?

6. . . Take good notes. Successful students take notes that are understandable and organized, and review them often.

Why put something into your notes you don’t understand? Ask the questions now that are necessary to make your notes meaningful at some later time. A short review of your notes while the material is still fresh on your mind helps you learn later and the less time it will take because you won’t have to include some deciphering time, also. The whole purpose of taking notes is to use them often. The more you use them, the more they improve.

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