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Nov. 15th, 2005 10:53 am
*cracks knuckles*
Hookay. Registered for next term. Which should be a little easier than this one, even though I'm taking more credits. I'm doing Ethics, Reporting and Physio Psych (yay, brain anatomy!)
Two of them are "book learning" classes, which I do much better at than "skills" classes. I find lectures a bit boring, usually, but I find them preferable to hands-on trying to learn something in a group setting. The way I learn skills is so different than most people that I prefer to work on my own, or one-on-one with an instructor. I was always the kid in grade school who pitched a fit every time we were put into work groups to collaborate on something. The only time working by committee works is if everyone on the committee is responsible for a different task, and each is reliable enough to keep up their end of the bargain. Five people trying to do one thing is usually a disaster, unless one person gets bossy enough to make everyone do it their way. Which, I admit, I'm good at, simply for the sake of survival. On occasion, I can work with a single other person, if we mesh well, but most of the time, my thought and task processes just don't work the same way others' do, and I end up being frustrated and either sitting back and letting the group concoct something pathetic, or risk pissing people off by taking over and making them all do it my way. The reasoning behind my choices for things is complex enough that it's impossible to explain, so my suggestions are usually blown off or confusing. So it comes down to I have to be a leader, with followers who make suggestions, but don't merely refuse to do what I ask, or I have to sit on the sidelines and not participate at all.
I've never figured out why teachers do this group learning thing. I guess maybe they figure peers can teach each other better sometimes. But that's never been the case for me. Even if I'm not the most advanced person in the class, I can't learn something from someone who isn't skilled at teaching or an expert in their field. I just want people to hand me a book and be there if I have questions.
Two of them are "book learning" classes, which I do much better at than "skills" classes. I find lectures a bit boring, usually, but I find them preferable to hands-on trying to learn something in a group setting. The way I learn skills is so different than most people that I prefer to work on my own, or one-on-one with an instructor. I was always the kid in grade school who pitched a fit every time we were put into work groups to collaborate on something. The only time working by committee works is if everyone on the committee is responsible for a different task, and each is reliable enough to keep up their end of the bargain. Five people trying to do one thing is usually a disaster, unless one person gets bossy enough to make everyone do it their way. Which, I admit, I'm good at, simply for the sake of survival. On occasion, I can work with a single other person, if we mesh well, but most of the time, my thought and task processes just don't work the same way others' do, and I end up being frustrated and either sitting back and letting the group concoct something pathetic, or risk pissing people off by taking over and making them all do it my way. The reasoning behind my choices for things is complex enough that it's impossible to explain, so my suggestions are usually blown off or confusing. So it comes down to I have to be a leader, with followers who make suggestions, but don't merely refuse to do what I ask, or I have to sit on the sidelines and not participate at all.
I've never figured out why teachers do this group learning thing. I guess maybe they figure peers can teach each other better sometimes. But that's never been the case for me. Even if I'm not the most advanced person in the class, I can't learn something from someone who isn't skilled at teaching or an expert in their field. I just want people to hand me a book and be there if I have questions.
