Last year, basically the whole Middle School of ISKL had tested their learning profiles in their Humanities classrooms. These learning profiles are categorized by letters, or double letters - your learning profile describes how you work best. Basically, you would take these tests by figuring out if you're gestalt or logical, which hand do you use more - the left or right body part that you usually choose to work with. If you fall - do you catch yourself with your left or right? If you want to hear something - left or right ear? I have everything on my right, a common learning profile: L.
For LUCKY, of course! (:
Now, to explain my profile, I'll start with how I learn best. Teachers, listen here - don't you want me to be capable of getting good grades? Or better ones? Then this is where you should pay attention to - so you know where to seat your students or know what to do to for us to learn better, or best.
Alright, guilty as charged, I am a person who fidgets. I fidget, not with my hands, but with my chair and my feet. Whether it's swinging my feet, nearly falling off the chair, putting my feet on the table, hooking my feet on some part of the chair - the chair and my feet are basically wrestling the whole class, but fidgeting or moving some part of my body helps me learn better. Teachers that have told me to sit still or give me the edge to sit still leave me to fidget with my hands and get distracted, resorting to passing notes or just zoning out completely (secretly swinging my feet.) Second, I don't like breaking things down. It's like breaking down an art piece, it doesn't make something easier either - it makes it just jumbled and messed up for me. An art piece shouldn't be broken down, you take it as a whole since the artist created it to be a whole - not pieces of a whole. If I were to take in the whole picture of an idea - I could immediately figure out what was happening or what I would be working down. It would be like reading Greek if I were to break everything down, then go over it about 20 times before understanding it even a bit. I'm also very closed off and don't like sharing my personality too much and getting it mixed into my education, so I attempt to bring in a different type of personality instead of mine (personally what I do but L's in general do not like to share themselves.)
Referring to earlier, it's a need for me to keep moving while learning. No, you don't need to kick me out on to the field while reading a book but try to ignore my constant moving or I will resort to doodling on anything I can find (besides the furniture.) I need a silent place to think, well only when generating my ideas or pondering something alien to me and when I do so - a loud classroom can bring out a cranky person in me that will try anything to get the classroom some what quiet. Under stress, I also prefer a quiet class, and I only get stressed if I'm dealing with something alien or on the verge of yelling my lungs out until the classroom is dead silent.
Strategies to help me learn is to sit where I can process my thoughts internally, somewhere quiet and where I can't disrupt others (or others disrupting me.) A balance of craft and skill would be good and keep me steady in learning - an imbalance would cause me to try to balance that again, with or without a teacher. Helpful activities for me are Lazy 8's and Thinking Caps, blinking while tracking with my eyes, martial arts, sports, writing and drawing the non-dominant hand and basically moving around helps me. I know it's disruptive but it may help and you probably already know due to my excessive foot swings or feet placement.
For the teachers - I get completely shut off from the class under stress. I snap easily, break easily at anything that will frustrate me any longer or people who aggravate me until the last moment. It can take me quite a while to iron out the stress as at times the cause can be unknown. When I'm relaxed, I'm easy going and can think straight enough for class. As a profile L, I can access gestalt/logic integration more easily than other gestalt profiles.
An Extra:
The Lazy 8's don't help much but swinging on my chair does (I apologize for that, teachers.)
If I flee the classroom out of anger, probably best not to follow me as I don't ditch the rest of class but will return at some point.
Refrain from giving me a lecture when I'm irked.
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