Diverse Approaches Of Effective Learning

Learning, to me, is simply the acquisition of skills that add value to one’s life, be it from the streets, in a classroom or even in the market. It is the one process that people do on a daily basis, and depending on how one looks at it, there can be diverse approaches to learning. Some of these approaches are based on the different experiences of the different people. Thus, because people approach learning in different ways, there is bound to be differences in the way people define effective learning as well. To some people, effective learning is judged by how much information an individual is able to memorize, whereas to others it might mean how effectively a person is able to demonstrate knowledge that they had previously acquired. To me, …show more content…
Back home, in The Gambia, I had a different perspective about effective learning, the same way I believe the many students currently learning there do. That is due to the fact that the system of learning was complete different. There were mostly two things involved in such learning process. One being, a student goes to school every day, listens to the teacher feed him or her with tons of information, exactly the amount that the student is required to know. Now all that student needs to do is make sure he or she memorizes that same information exactly as it was given to him or her, and give it back to the teacher during a test or an exam. There is often no need to make alterations or further research into it. More so, how much time the student spends out of class trying to master that information is totally up to him or her. What counts is that the students masters it …show more content…
Taking myself as an example, I feel I have improved a lot intellectually, and whatever I produce now I consider as original. I remember when in school back home I would score 100% in most of my classes. I would spend hours memorizing my notes, and putting myself to tests to see just how much I had memorized. That was effective learning to me, and one who did that was considered a hardworking student- an effective student. I would memorize lines from the different examples of essays and letters in English, which I would reproduce in exams. As a student, the learning system I was in never gave me a challenge, so I never used that which was in me.
Contrary to that, it is a different ball game here in the United States. Unlike back home, here you are challenged to bring out the knowledge, skills and abilities in you, which together with your experiences yield originality. I never thought that I would ever be able to write four, five pages essays, but now it is almost easy, and every essay I write is my original work just as it is supposed to be. It turns out all I needed was a challenge. That challenge being effective