My personality reflects my learning
style, and has ultimately been an important influence on the content area I
have chosen in my career as an educator. As a learner, I exhibit traits of an
active and reflective learner, intuitive learner, visual learner, and global
learner. These are important qualities to understand why I enjoy science so
much.
As an active and reflective learner, I
prefer to simultaneously think through learning concepts while actively
engaging in them. I believe science requires an intimate connection between
both learning strategies, as much of it relies on observation, analysis, and
experimentation working together to produce a result.
As an intuitive learner, I am able to
understand abstract and mathematical concepts with relative ease, and can
identify relationships among various concepts. As a visual learner, I learn
with ease through the use of visual aids such as pictures and diagrams. My abilities as a global learner allow me to arrange concepts to fit
together and understand the big picture. These learning abilities are important
because science is a highly abstract, mathematical, and visual subject, and
extends beyond the application of simple concepts; rather, it requires one to
have the ability to think and visualize multiple facets of concepts in order to realize the connections between them and, ultimately, the big picture. Earth systems are an excellent
example of what I am talking about here. We cannot see them as a whole, as they
are measured to the vast extent of planet Earth. However, we can see
their effects on our immediate environments, formulate mathematical
calculations to understand their nature, and design models that can illustrate
their effects on the Earth as a whole. These, among many other approaches to
understanding the concepts that contribute to the complexity of Earth systems,
allow us to visualize them in the big picture.
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