My Learning Profile

I am a logic thinker with an 'A' profile. Referring to the learning profile sheet for the 'A' profile, apparantly I learn best when I focus on the details, and I tend to plan out my actions before I act. Personally, I didn't notice these things about me before I saw the bullet points on the sheet. However, now that I think about my past experiences, I noticed that I was always the one to start typing last, whenever I had to start a paper on the computer. I suppose, that plotting and organizing comes naturally to me, and that is what I started to do, right off the bat the moment I had the laptop sitting on my lap. Since plotting and organizing comes so easily to me, I do perfer step-by-step instructions, as apose to a simple 'here's what I want, do it'. I am able to retreave information through my my eyes and ears even under stress, with that in mind, I believe that I learn best when I sit on the left side of the class so I can use my right ear more efficiently.

My left brain is totally dominant because I use my right hand, my right eye, my ear and so on and so forth, because of this, I would definately have difficulty connecting to emotional information. In this case, participating in positive and enjoyable sensory motion experiences will help me with that. Unfortunately, even as I typed that down, I have no clue what-so-ever, about what 'positive and enjoyable sensory motion' is. The profile sheet tells me that art and music will help me, and I am agreeing with the music, but not the art, because I enjoy playing musical insturments (especially string instruments such as the violin, and the guitar), and I am very picky about the songs I like to play, I am not sure how to explain it, but some songs simply appeal more to me than others. Meanwhile, in terms of art, I do not seem to use my right brain as much as I would while playing music, that is probably because, arts and crafts look good when they are 'processed correctly' and to me, a good piece of art is has more to skill than emotion. All in all, I need to play more music, to connect to my right brain.

A good strategy to help me with my learning would be to set me up on the left side of the room where I can see and hear more efficiently (since my right eye and ear is more dominant). I have already mentioned this before, but I understand and easily take in stey-by-step instructions, so it will be enormous help if this step-by-step instruction is apparant when I am given instrucions, that way, I won't have to waste my time doing it myself. When I don't understand the bigger idea of the topic, it would be huge help to list out key pointers and main ideas, to understand the bigger picture, in a way that appeals to me. Although I am saying this right now, I don't think the teachers should change what they are doing currently.

A few things that the teachers may want to know about me is that I do like sitting with my friends, but I know better, and thus I do not mind sitting with a complete stranger (unless the person in question is annoying and naturally noisy), I realize that, whenever the teachers use a presentation, I have a habit of glancing at the screen once to read through it, then I would stare at the ground or stare into the distance while the teacher is talking about what is on the screen. I would like to note that whenever I do that it basically means I'm in deep thought, but I am also listening in to what the teacher is saying. Also, whenever I ask for a comment, I would like teachers to be strict, because to me, 8th grade is a chance for me to get ready for high school, and a chance to see where I am weak, and improve upon it (apparantly high school is much harder to get by, as Melissa has often showed me). I have experienced a lot of different schools (including public and international) to know that teachers have different expectations from their students, and thus the way they teach could differ greatly, and since school life another life stlye in itself, it is hard to adapt to certain people. For example, my mandarin teacher expects us to be quiet and to pay attention, on the other hand my math teacher like us to constantly ask questions so that he can tell us what we don't know, I would like teachers to know, that it is hard for students to give everyone what they expect, because some student could be quiet, or reluctant to share ideas, and some could be out-going, or has a tendency to talk with out considering what comes out of his or her mouth, and so on, and so forth. All in all, I prefer to learn in an environment where everyone is focused and is on task, and I like to follow step-by-step instructions. I am not the type to stand up in class and willingly share my thoughts to the class (I prefer to go to the teacher and ask them questions personally if I have a problem, so it would help me greatly when teachers are willing to lend a hand and help me whenever I need it). This post has helped me figure out things about me that not even I knew before, and I hope it will help me be a more constructive learner.