Team Learning Self Assessment and Reflection Paper
This course has given me a lot to think about; I had never before thought about my personal learning style. ... First let us start by defining what a learning style is and how it can affect the learning process. In a dissertation by Virginia Isom, she defines “the teaching-learning process [as] concerned with human beings, [and] individuals who are different and unique. ... These logistics and environments are our individual learning styles. In my school days in Egypt, our learning style was modulated to a memorizing style. ... This learning style, although had an advantage of allowing a student to gain a lot of knowledge that can be recalled upon request; has a very obvious flaw, which is once the student completes the end of year exam, all the information is lost due to it not being reinforced through other teaching methods. This learning style was never effective for me since I was always the inquisitive type who asked why and how. This difference between my learning style and the classes’ instructions had a social impact on my adaptation and perception of the topic (Fox & Ronkowski). Knowledge about my learning style made me understand a lot better how I function in a class, and how I can enhance my learning experience. An anonymous authored paper shows that my learning style is mostly visual, while learning better in study groups; I tend to better study in a quiet environment (Anonymous). The concept of a visual learning style has always been one of my drawbacks, since a lot of graduate classes require reading and summarizing of many articles. ... We are mostly a combination of these learning styles (McCarthy).