Metacognitive Assignment: Part 6
To be completely honest, when it comes to learning, sometimes I seriously struggle. There are certain subjects where its hard for me to grasp the subject or simply not be interested in. Anyways, I feel like one of my strengths is memorizing material that I need to know for a test. For example, when it comes to memorizing parts of the brain for psychology class, i'll come up with rhymes or stupid sayings that will help me remember the parts or what they do or i'll simply repeat it over and over to myself. When i'm trying to learn a song, i sing it over and over until i know the whole thing. (it probably gets annoying to the people around me, but it's ok). Another strength that I think I have is doing homework in order to review the material that i've learned or practicing problems (in math). When I played basketball, I would practice, even when I wasn't with my team, and it would help me do better in the games. I would dribble around in my driveway, shoot papers into a trash bucket or even just work on my defense in my living room with my brother. I know this next strength is going to make me sound completely corny and nerdy, but whatever lol, I honestly genuinely enjoy learning new things. It might not be a learning strength, but when it comes to school I like to do well and figure things out that I couldn't before. I guess it gives me an advantage because I care about school and what i'm getting out of it, which other students lack sometimes. (ugh, this post is making me sound SO conceited, but I promise i'm not.) I guess my last learning strength would be that if there's something that I don't understand, I make sure to ask questions until I fully understand the material. Some of my classmates might have already noticed this about me, and they might even find it annoying, but if I don't get it i'm not going to pretend that I do. Usually, I stay after school if it's something that's really confusing but sometimes my questions are others' questions too, they're just too afraid to ask. I can't really think of an interdisciplinary connection for this one right now.. but i'll come up with one later. If I don't Mr. Kefor will be dissapointed and I don't want that.......