Spring Fever?

This week has been a long week, I had to remember back to class what we even talked about. I first thought it was the twitter class with Brandon and Chelsee, I guess you could call it spring fever or something like that. The facilitation class Silas and Allison did was really interesting because I saw some of the things that help me learn in class or studying. I also realized the importance of different teaching styles, just because we learn one way doesn’t mean we all learn that way. While looking through intelligences, I can see parts of most of them that I relate to. Some of my major ones would be Bodily/Kinesthetic or Logical/Mathematical because I learn best while working with my hands and converting what I am learning into tables, charts, etc. Not everyone learns best these ways, so next year when planning my lesson plans I need to learn incorporate different learning styles. As the semester goes on and I get to know my mentees I can incorporate the main learning styles that my mentees will best learn from.

In class we did an activity where we named off a bunch of problems freshmen might come across. Then we picked out our top learning styles and talked with others with like learning styles in how know what our learning style is like can help solve some of their problems. For example, Logical/Mathematical people like perform calculations and recognize abstract patterns. Using this we can find a way to relate things to our real life to study or fix any other problems. The Logical/Mathematical people like tables, charts, graphs, and working in groups, knowing this we can make tables, charts, or graphs to help us study the material. We can also get a study group together with others of the same learning style. Knowing these things I can farther expand my knowledge and help me study more. Then next year I can pass of these qualities so the incoming freshmen can get a start of on the right foot.