My Zeitgeist

❅ Learning Profile ❅

     When we did the profile test in humanities, I turned out to be Profile A. Mrs Narsiman also turned out to be a profile A. Here are a few things about me and the profile A! ★


      We had a short test to see which profile we are. I use my logic side of the brain (left side), and my right hand, foot, eye, and ear are the most dominant. Put that all together and I am profile A! Qhen I readwhat profile A was, I could definately believe that it was me.



My results!!!

      I learn best when I'm focusing on the details of something. I produce good work by analysis, verbally speaking, and writing. The profile also says that I usually prefer structured learning style and like information is a specific order. I also am able to follow step-by-step visual and verbal instructions. A profile a person also has language (written and oral) as a very important thing for learning. I find that it's me because I like to be told exactly what to do when working on something. For me, if I'm only told what the final result of something should be but not told how to do it, I usually have big difficulties. Like my profile says, I have trouble seeing the big picture. Usually when I get step-by-step directions, my results come out fine. I also understand that I can visually learn things. This made me think about my more dominant eye. It's the right one and when I look at things through my right eye, everything is much more blurry than my left side. I then realized that was because I used my right eye much more since it’s the dominant one.
  

  

      I need to be encouraged to understand information from a whole perspective and explore emotions and movement. When I am under stress, I have a difficulty seeing the big picture. I need the details and steps to do something. Lucky for me because Mrs. Narsiman likes to have step-by-step directions, so she gives her students those types of directions. So I usually work quite well in Humanities. I also need help to access the gestalt hemisphere. This is because it is said to be my biggest challenge. The gestalt side is the complete opposite from the logic side, which is the side I'm on! The people, who are on the Gestalt side, use emotions to connect to things, but people with profile A have troubles connecting to things emotionally. That's also where I need help and encouragement. Those are some things that I can't really do well.


     Strategies that would help my learning would be to have a balance of art, music, freeform movement and interpersonal/intrapersonal skills combined with effort to make emotional connections. I'm hopefully doing well because I have piano lesson, which would be my music contribution. I also have art classes at school every day as part of my normal school schedule, that's obviously my art section. I also rake dance combos, which I think is my freeform movement. I also try to connect to things emotionally through Literature Circle connections and try to see the big picture in things and still keep the skill of following steps. Hopefully I can become better at things I am not able to do with these strategies!

     Something that I would want my teachers to know about me would be that just because my profile says that I can still read and do stuff when I am stressed doesn’t mean I can do it well. I know that's what my profile says, but sometimes if I am under stress, I feel like I can't do anything right and after that, I actually can't do anything right! I might be able to function my body, but under stress, hardly anyone can do something perfect or at least well.


Profile A!!!

~ Natalie