Personal Narrative: My Current Learning Strategy

Each week there are several videos to view and websites to read that help me to understand the step by step process of each concept. I find that if I copy the examples in the video into my weekly notes assignment, I can refer back to those often while I take my weekly quizzes. Most of the time there is an example problem that is identical to a quiz question I am struggling with. There have been times that I search a subject for more videos if I am struggling.

Effective time management is the most crucial requirement to completing at least one semester every six months. Accurate time management lets me get more done in less time by working smarter. Managing my time efficiently let's me shift my focus from work and family obligations to my course work at the end of the day when I schedule my study time. Although it is not always easy having a strict study schedule it is essential to completing my course work within the allotted time frame. Having a strict schedule with fifteen to twenty hours a week of time set aside for studying in a dedicated study space will provide the necessary time to accomplish one semester every six months and

Another strategy, is reviewing your notes. I find that it’s easy to forget what we have wrote down. Reviewing your notes allows maximum recall of the material you write down. Recording the general main idea and details can be more useful than verbal notes. Notes serve to record information for recall and should show the main points of the lecture in an organized manner so that the relationship between points and details are easy to tell apart.

Work commitments can make it difficult to put an effective personal study plan in place this is because I work as an Auxiliary Nurse and I am required to work shifts. I have no standard shift pattern and what I have to work varies on a weekly basis, this means that can cannot allocate certain days or time for personal study as I may be working or travelling. ​

When I’m at home, I will study a smaller section at a time so I can reflect more often on what I have just read. By doing that my brain will have more time to rebuild and expand. Then I will try to keep to my appointed studying times and days. That will help me to stay on track with my homework and other assignments in the class. Having a certain study

Self- Discipline and scheduling effectively are critical factors when it comes to successfully managing your time. Having self-discipline is a vital necessity, when you are preparing for college success. Deciding to study for an important exam, or hanging out with friends, will need to be carefully decided. If you chose the obvious, Studying, you'd eliminate unwanted stress like, cramming days before the exam. Being self-Disciplined means you have control over your behavior and you do not make decisions on impulse, instead you make your decisions logically. Accomplish everything you can complete today and do not put it off for tomorrow. Creating an effective schedule will be a helpful tool when it comes to your college success. In order to plan

Later in the course it became less about taking notes and more about actually working through packets and learning the information on our own. I think the latter was the best way for me to learn especially when I’m the one figuring out how to do it. Anyone can take notes and memorize steps, but actually living the experience of doing the work just seemed the best way for me to understand the process of finding

I would suggest flashcards as I said before and also going back and using the study tool for each of the Learnsmart assignments that we have done. I also think writing out terms makes me remember

Two strategies that have helped me take on new information and learn is rereading the material and jotting down notes while doing it. This helps me recall things I may have missed and it’s also serves as a nice visual

(if you can't predict the likely outcome of an option, stop and gather more information.) Spending extra hours to study in the library will give make me more likely to memorize the content of the book, and study in a calm area. Seeing a tutor would definitely help me to understand the hard points, and save time for myself. Using the internet can help me learn many things in a short period of time.

When teaching a sequence of lessons, it is important to regularly assess the students and measure their understanding of the material. Taking lessons forward without any form of assessment can result in students being left behind and unable to access the new material because they did not get a grasp of the prior lesson. To ensure this did not happen I used previous exam questions whenever possible as tasks for the students to complete. A competence with these questions suggests that students are confident with the material and the lesson can be moved forward. Examples of this can be seen in REFERENCE FILES. When planning these tasks, it is important to understand the abilities within the class, this view was supported by Atkinson in a CA session (SA, CA, TS6). Despite being a triple science class, projected grades range from 5 to 9. I included questions that ranged in demand, from fact recall (REFERNCE EXAMPLE) to extended written prose (REFERNCE EXAMPLE).

A personal goal of mine for this class and all of my other classes is to better keep track of my homework assignments and use my planner on a regular basis, to stay on track and to have better time management. In high school we were given planners in order to stay organized but many people failed to do so. Using a planner is a very simple take to do, but many individuals

During the multiple choice portion, we see that students who used the note-taking strategy did better than those who used the 3R strategy and the rereading strategy.

My initial goal was to take better notes from lecture based classes by organizing my notes in to a hierarchal format. Although I did not meet my goal, I saw a change in the way I structured my notes. The way I implemented my goal was to write down notes on a piece of paper, then after class, while reviewing my notes, organize them into a hierarchal format. Successes was that it forced me to review my notes because the notes I took during lecture were not organized, so without organization, I would be in bad shape when I would have to study for the exam. Challenges were that, sometimes I couldn't really know what the overall theme was for the lecture because topics from the pervious lecture would always be mentioned, so it was hard to find the main topic and break it down into smaller segments. How I self monitored was that, after class, I would review my notes for 15 minutes, then would take 15 minutes to organize my notes into a hierarchal format. I self-monitored my self by, thinking if I do not organize my notes, I won't have anything to study for during the test, so I was always focused. I did make modifications to my goal/strategies by I learned that I can type faster than I can hand write, so half way through I tried typing my notes, then I would use bullet points and sub bullet points to make

Another common technique students practise to learn is highlighting/underlining, which will be treated as one and the same, as a study by Fowler & Barker (1974, Experiment 2) found them to yield no differences. Sadly, unlike with distributed practice, the effects of highlighting in comparison to simply re-reading have been found to be minimal, if present at all, despite so many students utilising it due to its easy nature in comparison to other techniques.