The Good Learner

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A Good Learner is defined as, the student that can learn, synthesize, evaluate, internalize, and apply what the teacher has taught. The Student has learned to be a life long learner and continuously tries to improve on what they have learned. There are many different attributes to a good learner, some that come from within the student and others that are influenced by the teacher. One of the most important attributes that were discussed in section 1.3 was the ambition for self-learning. I believe that when you have this quality in a person, many of attributes such as good study habits, willingness to take risks and experiments speaking the language, as well as motivation. And the willingness to learn will fall into place. The teacher can influence other attributes, such as, Reflection\ Metacognitive skills and the awareness of teaching and learning strategies in day-to-day lessons. Learners need to be self-reliant. Learning takes time and it takes repetition. Most of all it takes practice. At school, I was generally a kinesthetic learner. I found that I learnt better by active experiences that would help boost my comprehension. On the whole I was better suited to a combination of visual and kinesthetic. Auditory learning was not my strong point, and as a result I had a much slower learning rate for lectures. My enthusiasm, motivation and determination, were more than enough to help overcome this weakness. Through many years of school, I was able to identify what my strengths and weakness are and was able to create a learning style that gave me the best chance to be a good learner overall. In Conclusion, as a teacher, one of our highest goals is to help students become good learners. We need to always remember that all types, visual, auditory and kinesthetic learners, introverts and extroverts are all capable of learning effectively. We should Find a
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