ED 3100 Week 1 Assignment 1

In a guided self-assessment of study habits and strategies, ED 3100 students have been challenged to embark on a journey of self-exploration in an effort to better understand our own learning processes, as well as determine how different methods of studying and learning may affect our overall success. Dr. Demars (2015) explains that exploration and knowledge of our own techniques and learning strategies will then empower us, as future educators, to facilitate the same attributes in our students. She emphasizes that the better we (as teachers) understand our own learning processes, the better we can understand those of our students, and consequently help them self-assess to achieve a better understanding of their own learning. Although this exploration has raised many questions for me, there were key themes that stood out amongst others. By constructing an unbiased system of measurement, I am experimenting with deliberate and strategic changes to my study habits that are explicitly designed to address and correct weaknesses in my current study habits that I will track over a period of four weeks. By tracking not only time spent studying, but also my daily stress level, and overall confidence with new material, I hope to establish new parameters for studying with a …show more content…
Even when an ample amount of time is exerted overall, extreme care must be taken to ensure all subjects are getting the attention they deserve. A haphazard method of determining what is “most important”, and how much time should be allotted for each subject, has proven to be for the most part successful, yet leaves a large and inevitable margin for error, and so inevitably creates additional stress. Errors come easily when sleep deprivation, and exhaustion play a part. The question at hand is, how will time management and planning throughout the week help structure study time for more efficient