Learning Profile

As a learner I have realized over time my strengths on how to too be successful in the classroom and in the real world. I felt these strengths when I was at my old community college, I had a class called student success that is a little similar to student connect but in that class I found out that I’m a physical learner. Like when I get hands on with things I learned it better then someone telling me or showing it to me. So the class activity was more easier to me was “Horizontal Reversal” when we had the shapes and mirror and had to trace around the objects while looking at it off a mirror and can’t look down. The activity that I think that would help out a student next year that I learned from this class probably would be the community service activity if they are doing it on homelessness because if they research it they would find out a lot of new information about what types of people that are homeless and probably motivate them to take school serious cause everything can change on a flip of a dime and it could happened to anyone.

When I’m in a class I feel like I have a lot of weaknesses and it is amplified because I’m too laid back as a person and is shy to be the only one talking in a class no matter if I had the right answer or not. But one style that I do no I’m not is a Auditory learner, when a professor is up in front of the class speaking I tend to day dream and get distracted from what they might be trying to get us to understand. The task that gave me the most problems was doing the community service blog, when we was in class and Ms. Sonja as trying to talk to use to show us how to do I still isn’t understand and reading the assignment paper made it even more difficult but when I went and seen her after class she helped me get thru the first part of it then I didn’t really have any trouble finishing the Community service blog after that. The skills and capacities that I know I need to work on it to be more interactive in class, bring a tape recorder because there is little I could do about my disability of staying on subject and not getting distracted to anything around me.

Before I stared this class I never typed a blog before, when I had a paper to do I rarely did it in the past and that ended up hurting me in my grades and my self confidence. But when I joined this class I thought it was like a course that would teach and show how to adapt to the college environment. But when I we had class I started to realize that this class is more like a class for answers when u having problems with another class. The thing that I could do know that I couldn’t in the past was putting my thoughts into a assignment, the last time I could of have done that I was in middle school and I did good during those days. I judge this to be particularly important is that with self confidence comes self motivation one thing that had gotten me in trouble getting thru my classes at my last community college especially when there is no one going to presser the student’s to get their work done like in middle and high school. I didn’t really learned any skill that I had dent already heard of but going to this class help me put them to getter in my mind so now they are understood even better.

An reading, presentation, and class activity in class that had a particular relevance in my life is probably the ESPN: Out Side the Line’s Report about the star basketball player of a college, that promoted him as long is still playing for the team, then they didn’t graduate him when all 4 years of his eligibility is over then he was on his own and he couldn’t even understand anything in his classes because they did his test and work pre-hand and all he had to do was write his name on the tests. But he couldn’t graduate, then he couldn’t even get a job that would pay enough to be able to help him survive, so he ended up homeless, but his lowest part of his life is when he was about to commit suicide. This story related to me because a similar situation happened when I was in high school it even happened to me. Like the first time I seen it was my freshman year in high school when I was in school with Stoudemire, Amare I always seen Amare walking around campus chilling out side in gym playing around but never in a class, isn’t no one really cared about it because we all knew he would be going to the NBA. As the top Basketball player in the country we knew he would have colleges try to recruit him. But news around school came out that he was starting to think about going to Louisville to play basketball, but their was a major problem he barley had the grades to graduate from Cypress. When the teachers found out they were wondering, why is he going to college instead of getting drafted. Now this news started to surface during the 4th grading quarter. The whole year they let him do what ever he wanted and just gave his grades to him but now that he was thinking of going to college he couldn’t he only had one choice and that was going to the NBA till this day I don’t even think he even went to see how the school going they had a retirement ceremony for him to retire his number in the gym and he didn’t even bother going to it so they canceled it to this day no one knows if he ever went to see it. But the after effects of that came back to hunt the head basketball coach who also was the assistant principal, and principal. The they promoted our principal to a higher job that has nothing to do with students, and our former head coach/ assistant Principal was be searched for by the police and I never know if they found him but when I was in the football coach’s offices a detective called and the answering machine answered it and they said they were looking for him and that if they knew where he was to contact them. The topic that had no meaning to me has to be “shame” because I learned as a young kid to keep in personal information to my self and people that I trusted since we grew up as little kids. So my parents struggles and would of never had me feeling different in my class.

As my perspective as a learner I think that we should drop none of the assignments we had in the class. The blog’s are a good assignment to open a students mind to look broader to things in life. But of all the activities that we had done during the semester that should be kept at all cost was the online portfolio we ad posted on blog’s. Before I had taken this class I never mad a blog our even knew how to create a blog. It made doing assignments online fun by allowing student’s e creative in how they put pictures, and links on their page and also change the main outlook of their page from background, to text colors, and even the theme of their page. I don’t really know any other activities that should be added, but when I was at my last college we had took a test called a MBTI, the results of the test tells you exactly what type of person you are and what type learning styles would be more beneficial to you. The only advice I have to tell u is too keep doing the same things, like talking to student’s on how they feel about their classes, showing them resources that the school has to help them be successful in college, and using the internet to help keep everyone up to date with all the assignments, by posting the assignments on the class page in pipeline.

In the future student’s that enroll in this class should know a few things that would help them survive and flourish in student connect. The three most important that you should make sure you do to keep your sanity in class is to open up, by getting involve in class discussions if they some how relate to you, getting involve in the discussion would make it seem that time is going by fast, another is to be motivated to get up and go to class because you really just don’t know if there is going to be a guest in class to show something new that you probably heard of but don’t know anything about. Another way is to just suck it up and live with it its only a 1 credit class it would be done half way thru the semester, and almost everything in the class u most likely would us it during the same semester for another class. These should be some motivated things that would help u get thru the class, I didn’t have any problems with my class, every time I’m I attend class I come out with a broader thinking in life that would help me later in my life decisions.

I think as a learner going to this class help clarifying all the information I have known about but didn’t really know how to us it to my advantage. The one thing that I would take from this class was the community service assignment that showed me that homelessness can happened to any one from families that work but still homeless, even people that was making money straight out of high school that ended up being successful but it took just one situation to turn a person’s life upside down, from a disaster to medical payments. When I found out about this it was a surprise to me because I never know that any one could end up homeless for other reasons other then drugs. I learned to take advantage of being in college even though I might know everything that I need to know for what I am going to do in the future it wont mean anything to corporations because I don’t have a college degree stating that I officially know the material I went to school for. I also learned to open up to people where ever I go and not stay silent thinking that everyone around me know what I am thinking about.