Reading Assignment #2 blog posting

After reading the Reading COP #2 I'd say that, of the seven learning styles explored in the reading (Visual, Aural, Verbal, Physical, Logical, Social, and Solitary) that I am primarily a logical/mathematical and solitary/intrapersonal learner. I have taken a learning style inventory before and I believe I resulted as a logical learner, with which I agree. I tend to work through a protocol or organized pattern I have deemed efficient based on my past experiences. I feel slightly anxious when I detour from my proven learning habits, especially when I work in groups. Don't get me wrong, I am occasionaly spontaneous, but those times are far and few between. I'm very predictable. I do like order and do tend to make lists as my further reading suggests I would. As a science teacher at both the secondary and post secondary level, I feel that the components of a system do need to be completely understood to understand the whole system, as the reading suggests the logical/mathematical learning techniques explanation suggests I would. I also tend to be a solitary soul; I prefer to work alone in science labs, both in my undergraduate course work and undergraduate research experiences in HHH at FSU. It's often that you will find me spending time alone at a hobby or flyfishing. I seem to learn best when alone and completely undisturbed and find great satisfaction solving a problem or ratifying a situation myself rather than looking to another for answers.

Since receiving a full-time position in Harrison County, WV, I have truly found that my learning style is not the only route to learning. This idea is contrary to my position that my way of learning was best during my undergraduate years.