Some of you may want to know
something about your instructor and learning. Humans don’t get all gifts, and I
really had to work harder than other students even in elementary school. Anyone
taking my on-campus classes knows that I can’t spell and that I transpose
letters a lot. I could go on listing other problems, but my solution was great
persistence and collecting any good solution for my problems that I was lucky
enough to see. I used them and use them still.
One that helped me greatly came from
my World History teacher in a community college. Her tips helped me with
reading well in less time and they helped me begin to appreciate United States
History more because I could read it better. I focused on being a teacher in a
community college because community college teachers made a great difference in
my life and I’m willing to pass on that gift. My graduate program and doctorate
included not only history, but studies of how people learn. I collected more
solutions and I use them still.
To finish my doctorate, I had to
take a job in industry. The fields I worked in were about learning rapidly, the
people on my teams were learners with different approaches (especially a team
of cartographers with geographic information software), and the companies I
worked for paid for me to attend quite amazing programs on learning. I learned
from the teams I worked with and the problems we solved, I collected more
solutions, and I and my teams used those solutions very successfully.
So, if you already have mastered
these basic but essential Good Habits for Evidence, I’m happy for you--and that
also makes my work easier.
If you have not and you too could say you feel like you had to work harder than
other students, then I can understand. I know that having to work very hard
happens to people who are smart.
Being smart is, however, never
enough to learn all we have to learn to survive. Instead, it is how we work—our habits—with our smarts
that determines our success.
Copyright
C. J. Bibus, Ed.D. 2003-2014 |
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