Creating Confident Learners for Life

““When you know yourself as a learner, it helps you know how to learn. For example, I know the approach I take for different subjects and how much work I can do. With math, I have something in my head that tells me to keep trying. I know that eventually I can work out the problem and knowing that I can do it makes me want to try even harder. In science, if I try something and it doesn’t work, I move on to another problem and come back to it. I switch my brain away from it instead of what I do in math where I try to look at the same problem in a different way. In science, I do another problem because I know I need to take care of my brain in a different way. In English, I don’t think of reading as homework because I’m happy to read. But in writing, I try to get through it as quickly as possible. Sometimes I really need to stick with something as a writer because I just want to get done. I feel like I know my limits. I want to know how I learn because I think it does help me to learn better. If I know how I learn best, then I can do what I need to do to learn more effectively.“ ”