Mindset built off of shame Aroused but in a reserved manner, recognizing few familiar faces as walking in, I avoid making eye-contact with those with awkward intimacy. I take a seat on a cold steel stool. With the marble-based laboratory adding more sense of coldness, I am waiting for my teacher. I am recounting my first day in AP chemistry class back in my junior year at 2010. My teacher, a pregnant lady, as to practice how she would teach her future child, very softly but firmly, gives us an essential advice to survive her class, "do not wait until the last minute to study.” Too immature, too arrogant, too spontaneous, I nod, yet denies her advice in my heart. I agree with the fact that any assignment should never be done near the deadline. …show more content…
Yes, tomorrow is my first exam day. The first exam will majorly consist of the materials from the regular chemistry class, which I took last year. The slides refresh my memories out of the deep ocean in my brain and allow me to quickly grasp which materials to aim for. In the meantime, studying of the materials that I have once studied in the past gave me confidence and got myself thinking that my study tactic was not wrong after all. I can wait until the last day before the exam to study. With the successful score from the first exam and with my successful strategy to study, I start to overestimate my abilities; I begin to take the lecture less seriously. Overconfident. I ensure myself with the belief in my experienced tactic. Of course, I do listen to lectures, move my pens restless to copy down every bit of what teacher says in my notebook. Or, I was just pretending. In reality, my ears are not serving their primary purpose of taking the sound in. Instead, like a gateway, one of the two simply let the sound pass through and leave
Ellen goodman really explains the college course Chem 20 that all pre-med students have to take, she describes Chem 20 by “a psychological laboratory of pre-med anxiety…...Every class was a combat mission.” This quote explains that the class was very punishing and grueling to be
First, one must understand the distinction between hearing and listening. Hearing is simply the reception of sound waves by the ears. This may happen unconsciously, as is usually the case with soft background noise such as the whoosh of air through heating ducts or the distant murmur of an electric clothes dryer. Sometimes hearing is done semi-consciously; for instance, the roar of a piece of construction equipment might momentarily draw one's attention. Conscious hearing, or listening, involves a nearly full degree of mental concentration. A familiar i...
This usually happens when I monitor my students during the testing session. I make sure that I am visible and mobile inside my classroom. I want my students to do well on tests and gain confidence that they understand the concepts being tested, but I want my students to be self-motivated and self-reliant and to not look to their partners for the answers.
As the dull scent of chalk dust mixes imperceptably with the drone of the teacher's monotone, I doodle in my tablet to stay awake. I notice vaguely that, despite my best efforts in the shower this morning after practice, I still smell like chlorine. I sigh and wonder why the school's administration requires the students to take a class that, if it were on the Internet, would delight Mirsky (creator of Mirsky's Worst of the Web), as yet another addition to his list of worthless sites. Still, there was hope that I would learn something that would make today's first class more than just forty-five wasted minutes... It wouldn't be the first time I learned something new from the least likely place.
Due to her major in Biology, Samantha’s courses were Biology of Organisms, Microbiology, Pre-Calculus and Academic Writing. This was a challenge for Samantha because there was limited personal time and extravagant duration of school, homework and studying. In spite of the dragging nights at the library, Samantha kept up with studies, and had a thorough understanding of what each course was referring to. In despite of Samantha’s first year in college, she learned a significant amount about her morals and the way she was raised. She came into controversy when she realized that not every individual had the amount of discipline and respect that she was enriched in at a young age. Nevertheless, when she had a dispute with her roommate, Jocelyn, Samantha didn’t understand why her levels of sincerity and gratitude were different than her own. Samantha was taught when she was an adolescent to apologize by declaring how to say sorry by explaining what she did wrong. Whereas, Jocelyn would announce her apology due to thinking that is what Samantha wanted to hear; however, not because she believed that she did something regretful. Although, despite their opposition of consideration towards sincerity, Samantha realized their differences and decided that arguing, hostility and physical contact was not key to this situation, which reminded her of a
... all, everyone is different in their own respective way and some people might have the ability to simply comprehend all they hear, unlike myself I feel like I teach myself more on my own or with others than if I were sitting down and taking notes. The only problem with just listening during a lecture is that people don’t retain all that information over a long period of time. Most of the information is stored in the brain until that test comes and all the information leaves when you hand in the test.
Excessive religious or moral doubt Counting 6. Forbidden thoughts ... ... middle of paper ... ... to survive the day in class. Keeping the doors of communication open with the student’s parents is also important.
Everyone has its strength and weaknesses, it can see from when the exam is around the corner. Some students will prepare early but some are not.
Do you know the reason why every student dreads the last five minutes of class more than the other seventy? No. Is it a snub? Well, it’s quite obvious really; this is the time when homework is assigned. So why does this simple 8-letter word fill us with dread?
This one being your first year in college, you may have trouble concentrating while you study. Some techniques that can help your concentration are being selective, relaxing, and over learning. Being selective means to make choices about what is most important to learn. When you are studying, you should be able to know what may or may not be on the test, your notes for the week can be helpful. In addition, pay attention to charts, tables, and illustrations that you think may appear on the test. Relaxing is a good technique to use because when you are relaxed you are able to absorb more information. One way to relax is to use a breathing technique (inhale, count from one to ten, and exhale, and count from one to ten, and so on). Over learning can help you fight mental vagueness. When you are struggling in a class, it is best for you to learn more than you need to know about the subject. You can use these techniques every time you are studying or when you cannot concentrate.
Learning that having good time management skills has shown me that I can take my time and accomplish more. When relating this to school, I can honestly say that starting early is the best gift that I can give myself. As a full-time student with a family and a full-time job, my time is a limited resource (Britton & Tesser, 1991 pg.405). When I start early on an assignment, I don't have to rush and if I mess up, I can start over or seek help if necessary. My work schedule doesn’t always agree with my school schedule but for the most part, I try to have all of my school work completed by Thursday. As I'm approaching the last week in this class, I have began to look over the discussion posts first and then I look over the complete section to familiarize myself with the material before I even go to the read section (Chambers, 2015 pg.4). I found that to be especially helpful when I first began this class because the things that I already knew or felt like I knew, I went ahead and did it.
It involves going to class which most definitely leads to me seeing something interesting and then getting lost in an area of campus I don’t recognize. In class I can learn just like everyone else, it just takes more concentration and focus than the average student, and even then I still get distracted, missing an entire part of the lesson. To summarize it in Helen Rice’s words on a BBC interview (September 23, 2016) “I wake up every morning a new woman. I think, ‘Today is the day I’m going to do everything right and get on top of the important things instead of [procrastinating]. And every night I go to bed a broken woman because it’s all gone wrong again and I haven’t done any of it.
Being a student in Mrs. Wroblewski’s classroom always made me feel safe. Whenever something was bothering me, I knew I could talk to her in order to work things out. I knew that if I told her, she would actually do something about it. I still remember when I was sick on the second day of seventh grade and when I came back the next day sh...
... to interchange ideas and clarify doubts or issues I have. I have to contain myself for doing the most of the speaking in some of the classes, overcome laziness to analyze how well or bad an activity or class turned out and think of better ways to do things when they did not work as I thought they will . To conclude I am aware that the only responsible of my learning is me. “Teacher training or education is something that can be managed by others; Teacher development is something that can be done only by and for oneself” Wallace, 1991.
Simple approaches and flexible means are the key to effective learning. Monotony and regimentalized fashion of learning is usually not recommended for the growing minds to ensure that the minds remain open and accept more stimuli from the surroundings.