Personal Theoretical Foundations

                There are many different ways that students learn; I have seen many varieties on how they are easily taught. I have noticed before that some students are set in categories when they learn a new topic. Students understand subjects better by watching and repeating, hands on, something similar to their past learning, just reading the directions, and many more. It all depends on how their brains take in the information or how they need to see the information. The personal learning test that is located in chapter two would actually come very handy in school or classroom. I know that they test students every year to see what they do and do not know, but maybe the school systems should also make them take this test so they can be taught better. I think that if I were a teacher and every year more and more students were failing or not learning much because of the style, I would have the students take this learning test. Once the results come out, the school could put the students that learn the same way all in the same classroom so there would be more taught and test scores would go higher.

                I took the test to see my multiple strengths and weaknesses and this is what I had found out which some of it shocked me. My strengths are interpersonal and intrapersonal, that was not shocking because I am very outgoing and enjoy being around others and having fun while I’m learning or whenever. Then again there are times when I have my blonde moments and can’t figure something out. (Everybody has a blonde moment). Naturalistic was one that was in between my strengths and weaknesses. My weaknesses were musical and visual, the body and work. Lastly was number smart which is not surprising at all. Some of these did and did not shock me because I know this is exactly how I am on most of them. I will be honest I am not one of the smartest students, but I try to be and I try to do as good as I can. I am a student who does need examples, or hands on things to do so I can learn better. That is just my way of learning. There are students I teach that will be like me and there are students that won’t understand so I know to come up with different methods, and I know that the personal learning test would help!