Hi Professor Deforest!
As a part of this class, you are trying to figure out each students reading and writing style. Unlike most college students that are able to write down and understand notes from a lecture, I need to have visual aid. I learn well from diagrams and well-organized graphs such as this example:
TITLE
I. xxx
A. xxx
a. xxx
1. xxx
B. xxx ...
Teachers that also write notes on the blackboard as well as interact with their students is the best way I learn. Bonding with your students is also a very important key for being a teacher. Involvement and practical situations that apply to my learning abilities help me a lot.
Honestly, I do not think I have poor reading skills; it is just when then material that is presented to me is not what I enjoy to read, my concentration is poor, I began to not understand the ideas, and I can't understand what is important and not important. Concentration at home is tough for me, too. I have three younger sisters, ages 15, 7, and 4, so it is hard for me to understand the text when my sister is jabber-jawing about how her day at school was. I have a lot of other homework, or I did in high school, and seemed to do the work I enjoyed more than what needed to get done. Instead of reading an English book for 3 hours, I would concentrate on an art project for the 3 hours. I also can't read a book within a week like my teacher in high school expected me to do. I need to sit and read a book slowly so i can truly understand what I am reading.
I hope to learn a lot from this class, I really do. I want to learn how to read correctly, I want to learn how to concentrate and focus, and I want to learn how to write the way a college student should be! Thank you!
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hey lyandra, it's also hard for me to concentrate on reading a book. i think the best way to concentrate and read a book is to seem like you are enthusiastic about reading the book. if it's a book required to read from school read what the book is about and if it sounds REALLY interesting you should be able to read the book quicker than you think. But if it's a book you are not interested in and you have to read it for school try your hardest to stay very very VERY far away from the siblings and other distractions.
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