Ever since I can remember I have been a hyperactive child, I always find it difficult to pay attention and keep myself focused. I have learned over time to focus and stay on task when needed, and fix my distractions so I can regain focus on the class, teacher, or my homework. I do apply myself with subjects I love. The skills that I possess well are self-awareness and goal-setting. Lana Becker, educational researcher implies “Self-regulated learning requires students to make deliberate choices and consciously select and employ effective strategies so that learning will take place. Self-regulation [is] referred to as the ‘fusion of will and skill’” (par. 1) I do not apply myself in situations because of my lack of motivational skills. Although I possess great self regulated learning skills, I need to apply those skills across all learning situations.
. In school when I do not grasp a concept and that concept is a topic of interest, I find help for an extra explanation. For example, last year I took Advanced Placement chemistry. When I needed extra help I contacted my old chemistry teacher and planned tutoring for every Monday. “The resourceful student knows when to seek assistance and which resources to consult,” Becker claims (par. 11). I know when I am struggling to understand a concept. Over time I have discovered that I learn visually. I have always made flashcards for vocabulary, math, and even Spanish. I remember pictures, maps, and things I have read. By understanding how I learn, this comes in many advantages. I excel at obtaining help with subjects that interest me.
My self-awareness of how to stay on task has been an advantage to my learning. I know when I study too much, and when I need to stop for the rest of the day....
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...week took motivation to not give up. However, school is a different story. Knowing how to improve is the question. Being a teenager means being lazy, and addressing learning skills is not the most important process to do. If I understood how to improve my self-regulated learning skills, I would have already been working to address these issues.
Style of learning is an important aspect of life. To increase my skills in my environments is important. I need to apply my self-regulated learning habits to all areas of learning, not just specific ones. Knowing how I learn and what I need to do to fix the problems of self-regulated learning will assist me in my future. I will better prepare my-self with future tests, jobs and life.
Works Cited
Becker, Lana. “Self- Regulated Learning.” English E-Reading Resources. D2L. Northeast State Comm. Coll. Web. 22 Aug. 2011.
This tool states that learning is made up of four basic phases, which includes diverging, assimilating, converging, and accommodating, that gives one a better understanding of how they learn. The booklet claims that learning can be cyclical and four basic phases. These learning phases are described as a concrete experience, reflective observation, abstract conceptualization, and active experimentation. The assessment asserts that knowing about your learning style can help you better understand how to maximize your learning, solve problems, work in teams, manage conflict, making career choices and how to improve
John Dunlosky’s (2013) article, Strengthening the Student Toolbox, gives study strategies that may be beneficial for teachers to give to their students. Dunlosky found that the strategy, self-explanation, to be beneficial. If a student was to use self-explanation, then he or she would try to explain how new information connects with prior information, that he or she already has acquired (Dunlosky, 2013). This strategy allows a student to connect new information with prior knowledge and this connection will allow the student to remember the information better.
Lamarche-Bisson, Diane. “Learning Styles - What Are They? How Can They Help?” World and I Sept. 2002: 268. Academic OneFile. Web. 20 July 2011.
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As children grow up they develop selective attention. Selective attention is the ability of focusing one’s attention on relevant information and disregarding what is irrelevant. This skill becomes more and more relevant to a young student as the school year goes by. Each new school year brings new difficulties and new learning objectives. If students want to succeed, they must be able to pay attention and stay alert during class. However some children struggle though class due to ADHD. Attention- deficit/ hyperactivity disorder is a common behavioral disorder that affects an estimated 3% to 5% of school-age children. These kids “act without thinking, are hyperactive, and have trouble focusing” (Chaban, 2014). Although they can understand what teachers’ expect out of them, they still have trouble doing any task because they can’t sit still.
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In the preceding sections of this article, I outlined two major theories in educational psychology: self-regulation and critical thinking. Situating these two theoretical orientations within one framework, my conceptualization in this article addresses two fundamental issues: (i) that critical thinking, as a cognitive practice, helps in self-regulated learning, and (ii) the sub-processes involved in self-regulation assist in the development of critical thinking skill. The theoretical facets of both frameworks, as indicated previously, suggest that the sub-processes involved in self-regulation and critical thinking coexist in a dynamic system of change. In the advancement of this discussion, I adhere closely to existing literature and contend
In this essay I will be describing various types of learning styles and stating the advantages and disadvantages of these learning styles. I will also inform you of the most commonly used method of finding out your own learning style, and I will inform you of the man who made this method. Finally, I will write about my own preferred learning styles and the strengths and weaknesses of the different learning styles.
.... Many say that us kids are just lazy and don’t care about our future. They don’t realize that is not just laziness or not being caution of our future but that there is a case where we don’t know what to do or were just confuse or over whelm with homework, growing up and thinking about our life outside of school. Of course there are many solutions to face these problems of lack of concentration in school. All we got to do is speck up, speak up for someone who needs help and be listen by those who care and want to help.
Individuals are assumed to learn better when they discover things by themselves and when they control the pace of learning (Leidner & Jarvenpaa, 1995). Therefore, it is natural to expect that self-directed, interactive learning would improve learning outcome.
One-way my time spent during my fieldwork has improved my own learning is how I manage the way I learn. During my fieldwork, I observed many ways the teacher adjusted her lessons to accommodate different learning styles for her students to enhance their learning. This made me think of my own cognitive learning style and how I learned and processed information. These types of adjustments made by the teacher to improve learning, helped me better understand