Post 8 Learning Learning Strategies

A lot of the work I did at my internship at Carleton’s Paul Menton Centre for students with disabilities was focused around learning strategies. When I started I had very limited knowledge about what learning strategies looked like, but I did have my prior experience as a student as a starting point. Some of what I worked on with students included time management, study strategies, procrastination, getting the most out of a textbook, and motivation. The interesting part about teaching a lot of these skills to students is that I still am a student myself and I can relate to a lot of the struggles the students I am working with are having. One of the nice benefits of having to learn all of these learning strategies for the students I work with is that I also was able to pick up on techniques to help myself in my own studies. Being able to apply some of these strategies for myself also helped me understand how I could adapt them to students if they are having trouble implementing them. I appreciate being able to put what I have learned to practical use and use the knowledge that I gain from my own experience to become more effective in my work.