Study Group Leader Philosophy

Please include your teaching philosophy statement here, and provide specific examples of how it informs your practices as an LA or as a Study Group Leader. Coming into college I always assumed I’d be ready for the challenges that I would face here. I went to class and listened to professors lecture material, which more than often made little to no sense. It was hard adapting to college, my learning techniques remained the same from high school, but my success did not. It was then that I realized that I needed to learn how to learn.
I started by removing the mental compartmentalization I had set up to mark each subject as its own subject. College showed me that everything was related, whether it was one of the basic sciences like Chemistry or computer programming like MATLAB. That was when I realized that learning started by looking beyond the scope of the class and connecting …show more content…
Often students compartmentalize material and never look beyond the top layer of the material to see the why behind it. This leads to them picking up a basic understanding of material and never really appreciating it and applying it elsewhere. This reduces the feeling of relevance in the students and so they turn to cramming and short-term memorization rather than impactful learning. My goal was to change that and help students gain an appreciation for what they were reading about and hearing about in lecture. I pushed my students toward learning the usefulness behind the subject material rather than looking at it as just busy work. Without appreciation for the use of a subject students won’t see it as much more than a chore they are forced to do in order to pass. If they are able to find a use for the material, students will use the material more often, further developing a better understanding of what they’re doing, and becoming better students and learners in the