International Foundation Programme Name: Sinatambou Mathieu Student Number: M00430339 Module Number: IFP 000 Task S2 : Essay Block (e.g Block 1A or 2C) Title : What kind of learner am I ? Date: 11/26/12 What Kind of a Learner I Am? Throughout life everyone learns. How we learn and whether we are able to retain and recall that information is the problematic part. The way we absorb, analyze, and retain information is what makes each individual unique. What is successful
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don’t judge people on the merit of their works, but of their person. I do have to admit that actually do discriminate a person based on their works. I’ve often judged those with what I may have seen as menial occupations as people of less intelligence and drive. This is not true, as I have learned in the past, but was brought more to light with the example from our text book, page 77. Just considering how those of widely varied jobs in Denmark view each other as equals. I’ve never considered
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Surrency 08/26/2013 My goal for the future is to open my own in-home preschool and provide a positive and healthy learning experience to all that attend. I want to help guide and prepare our young children for their future in academics and life in general while having fun at the same time. My goals for the children are to teach them positive social skills, to be respectful to all people and things, to give them a voice and allow them to input their own ideas and opinions, give them a sense of pride
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Vark Analysis Paper Vark Analysis Paper The visual, aural, read/write, kinesthetic (VARK) questionnaire was invented by Nick Fleming in order to help students and/or teachers understand their learning styles. The questionnaire is made up of 16 questions and when finished, it compiles information gathered, and the best learning style is revealed. "The learning style is rather a description of a process, or of preferences" (Fleming, 2006). By answering the questions as truthfully as possible
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What Makes A Leader What I can bring to the table is what I believe makes me a good leader. The ability to go beyond what is expected, to lead, show motivation and most of all inspiration. A leader takes responsibility of ones action, accepts there wrong and learns from that to make it better. A leader isn’t just born, it takes the life experiences, its mistakes and learns from ones mistakes for the better of tomorrow. At a young age, I can strongly say that it has not been easy to get where
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McClusky’s Theory of Margin proves even though a person has reached age maturity, there is still room for learning. The benefits of this theory can be used as a simple guidance tool on a daily basis. Thus the tool is not to be taken as a crystal ball, as this will not tell you how you would learn, however it will allow to put in perspective what areas we would need to focus on to get a gratifying outcome. The benefits can be measured with a simple formula L/P=M. With this method we can overcome
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in this course i learned many things that apply to many situations and many places. through out the entire course i learned everything from self respect to respect for others. when i say self respect i don't only mean to treat oneself honorably but to take care of yourself whether physically, mentally, emotionally, and so on. as for the respect to others, it includes your peers and everyone else and everything else, whether living or not. it was a very broad topic and a course i very much enjoyed
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Mira Jacobs in her Shine.yahoo.com article “The great Baby Einstein scam” (2009) discusses the report done by New York Times (T. Lewin, 2009) that Disney is offering refunds to buyers of the Baby Einstein videos, due to false advertisement. The advertisement promised to make children smarter. Mira continues to discuss how parents felt bamboozled by Disney’s product and in actuality the New York Times article noted a study done by the “American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that children under
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Feral Children By: Austin Arndt The video I choose to watch about feral children was about a boy named Sujit that was raised by chickens. He was raised by chickens because as a young child his parents became annoyed and frustrated with him so they locked him in the chicken coop for a lot of his childhood, because of this Sujit never learned any of the basic skills that we all know how to do like read, write, speak and other daily tasks. I think what Sujit’s parents did to him was terrible.
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My Final reflection Learning isn’t about how much you know but how you apply it in to your every day life. But understanding how you learn will allow you to understand the world around you and making sense of it. By identifying your strengths and weaknesses of a task can be very beneficial to how you will succeed the task at hand. Understanding how you learn by using your learning patterns. Your learning patterns are sequence, precision, technical reasoning and confluence. Sequence is the type
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