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Sunday, 30 October 2011 8th August 2011, 2nd Week of Introduction to University Studies.
8th August 2011, 2nd Week of Introduction to University Studies. It is yet again another Monday, another class for UB-0201 Introduction to University Studies. Today was the first day for us to have our separated group and have our own classroom. I came early since I don’t know where our class would be and my friends and I made an agreement to come early to look for our class together and I was the first to arrive. I can feel the anxiety building up being alone and boy am I glad to see my friends arrived just a few minutes after me. And so we went to look for our class only to found out that it is better known as Mitsubishi Hall. Again anxiety is building up since a lot of people was already in sitting and waiting for class (since coming in a class full of people will attract their attention and I hate to be seen or watched by crowds *something I need to change about me*). Talking about anxieties, it was the first thing we learned for our second class. Now I know what I feel back then when I first started schooling, it is separation anxiety (though I doubt that any of us are having that kind of anxiety now). I thought that managing anxieties in learning have steps or procedures to follow but actually it is just as simple as focusing in my own study without worrying about others’ works. Although finding supports may also be needed. I could say that managing our anxieties is crucial to our concentration and development in personal and academic progress. As crucial managing anxieties are in our development, reflective learning also helps us in the same developments. I learned that through reflection I can learn and understand more about issues of concern by examining and exploring it internally. Thanks to reflective learning my thinking and learning processes is easily shared with my lecturers. My personal and professional growth also lies with reflective learning as it can help me identify my weakness and help to improve it. We can say that reflection is an indication of deeper learning. I also found that when we find something new about existing information it is automatically integrated into the existing information in our mind thus adding further knowledge about the issue of concern. I should do more reflective learning since it will help me understand and identifies and questions underlying values and beliefs. With reflective learning I now know better to acknowledge and challenge assumption while recognizing whether or not bias or discrimination is there. All the fears I had in studying, learning or revising is also part of reflective learning, only that I just knew about it from this class today. Now I know that becoming a reflective learner will help me both personally and professionally, it helps me identify who I really am and what my weaknesses are and then I can improve myself. It will help me learn better since I will need to regularly look for opportunities to improve my learning process. Now I will likely to use new knowledge and information efficiently and purposely. We also learned about the characteristics of a reflective learner (and I should really pay attention to this if I want to be one). I need to have motivation to learn more and find challenges more as overcoming challenges will improve me better. Curiosity is what I always have and I will be needing my learning appetite heightened. I will also need to heightened my focus so that I can avoid distraction and it will make me more discern and selective when it comes to information. I should also improve my self-awareness in learning to know what kind of learner I am and what learning strategies will work best with me. Confidence is something I have a bit of difficulty to acquire since I am always lacking in self-esteem. I should not be afraid to fail because it is not the length of studying that matters but it is the result of the studies, the final achievement, and to do so I must be open minded and welcome criticism. I have always wondered why people write journals or diaries, I always thought of the purpose of writing one. The only thing that came in my mind was to serve as a memoir, as reminiscence. Little did I realize that it keeps track of my progression both personally and professionally, especially if it is reflective writing (thus the reason why am I doing this). It’s just that I didn’t know how hard it is to write reflectively since I am afraid of ending up writing it descriptively. And from this class too I learned that identifying and managing my anxiety is important in University life, especially since I have always had that problem since secondary school. This post is posted on 10/30/2011 08:33:00 am |
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