EDUC 1300-3D7
9-30-14
My Success in Life Success is the accomplishment of one’s goals or endeavors. All throughout my life, success has been the main ambition for everything I do. It is what has given me the determination and power to push through any challenge that stood in my way of achieving what I sought. I, just like everyone else, have my own unique learning, studying, and personality traits which help make who I am as a student today. These inherent traits give me the best possible results for myself as a person to succeed in my entire career as a student. Each individual has their own, unique learning style; mine is aural and kinesthetic. As an aural learner primarily, I enjoy when instructors explicate things to me one on one, and primarily lecture rather than teach from the book. Filling out numerous amounts of notes distract, and only hinder me in the long run. Secondly, I am a kinesthetic learner; loving the hands on style of learning. Interacting by performing real life examples definitely make the material I am learning much more concrete and easily understood. Studying is very significant and imperative as a student in high school. As I mentioned in the previous paragraph, my learning style is aural and kinesthetic; also correlating to the way I study. Reading my notes aloud, and forming study groups are some of the most effective studying methods for myself; an aural learner. Also, my kinesthetic side allows me to recall past experiments, and go over previous labs to help better retain what I’ve learned.
Each and every individual has a unique personality style which effects the way they act as a student. Taking the Myers-Briggs and True Color Assessment have helped me realize who I am personally as a student. The Myers-Briggs assessment showed me to be an ‘ESTP’. The “E”, or extravert side of me shows how I learn best when in groups, with active interaction between students, and background noise. The “S”,