How Do You Learn Best
The next task is to select educational methods or combinations of methods
that will allow you to retain, and even heighten your excitement. Colleges seem
to be an excellent place where you as a student are allowed the luxury of
selecting courses which you choose for your own reasons. You are also allowed to
proceed at your own pace. Often you can even select the method of instruction.
However, some programs of instruction offer little choice. In these situations,
you still need to determine how you learn best so you can be successful at the
course work.
You will need to consult with administration and staff of the school to find
specifics as to procedure, availability and acceptability of various educational
methods. Keep asking until someone gives you what you want. A few of these
educational methods involve work on the part of administrators, faculty and
staff. If anyone holds you back, push them. And if necessary remind them that
you are the reason they have their job. After all, you are a customer. Without
you they may have to close up shop.
Possible educational methods include:
traditional classroom
private tutoring
distance learning
independent study
self study
correspondence course
credit by examination
competency based instruction
audio tutorial
computer assisted instruction
on the job training
The career you seek must have educational methods available to you which you
can use to learn. Everyone has a learning style that works best for them. Two
hundred seventy million people in the USA. No two just the same. Or so the
jingle goes to a TV commercial. Yet everyone does have a style of interpreting
what happens around them based on their previous use of memory, the effect the
environment has had on them, and their preference for solving problems one way
or another. In the language of an educational psychologist, a Cognitive
Style Map CSM is the diagnostic tool that identifies a student's relative
learning strengths on selecting learning variables.
Certainly the technique to determine your CSM is beyond the scope of this
book. Yet now you are aware of the existence of this tool to aid learning. It is
a fact that information so gained could provide you with a significant advantage
to adapt learning tasks to your CSM. As you find yourself having a difficult
time learning, you may counselor with a consular about having a CSM done for
you. Or if you find that you seem to be able to progress a built short of a goal
which you have set for yourself, a CSM might be the proper tool to move you that
last difficult distance to reach your goal.
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Consumer Information about Testing and Assessment.
You are about to make a career decision-taking a course, applying for college,
interviewing for a job, accepting a new job. It is just one of the many
decisions that you will make throughout your working life. Tests--also called
assessments, inventories, or career decision-making tools--are available to you
to help make the best career decisions possible. This guide will help you better
understand the different types of career assessments and how you and others may
want to use them to make career decisions.
The Career Assessment page in the America's Career
InfoNet's Career Resource Library links to several self-administered guides,
tests, and questionnaires designed to help you make career and lifelong learning
evaluations.
The Learning-Styles
Network disseminates research, information, publications and other
resources focusing on learning, teaching, and productivity styles.
The Keller Graduate School of Management Learning
Methods survey provides study tips tailored to a user's survey
results.
The Job Hunters
Bible.com website is designed to supplement Richard Bollis' book,
“What Color is Your Parachute?” The site provides commentary and links for
job searching and career changing.
Job seekers and learners can use the Career
Key test to narrow down the career choices that suit them. This test
is based on the RIASEC
(Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional) six
different personality types. Suggested occupations based on user responses are
listed with test results.
Learning
styles: the seven intelligences provides a description of the
"seven intelligences" along with an inventory that can help you to see
where you apply each, and to what extent.
The International Assessment Network's MAPP
(Motivational Appraisal of Personal Potential) is a web-based test
you may take for free. The site provides an analysis sample to help you learn
your personal career motivation priorities and discover your styles for
communications, learning and leadership. You may purchase a more detailed
analysis including additional job search resources through the website.
 PBS
LiteracyLink. Funded by a five-year $15 million grant from the US
Department of Education Star Schools Project, LiteracyLink is creating an
integrated instructional system of video and online computer technology which
will help adult students advance their GED
and workplace skills.
 Search
America's
Literacy Directory to find literacy programs for adults, youth, and
children, individuals with special needs, volunteer opportunities, and more. The
search feature lets you focus on GED, ESL, reading/writing, or basic math
programs in your area.
Fraud/Liability
You may search the Council of Better Business Bureau website for Business
Reports (BBB profile reports)
for businesses in certain cities. To handle Internet-related commerce, the
Council of Better Business Bureaus has formed BBBOnLine
to "promote trust and confidence on the Internet by encouraging sound and
ethical online business practices."
FirstGov for
Consumers is your resource for consumer information from the Federal
government. Contains information on how to avoid scholarship scams. The FTC
cautions students and parents on what to look for. You may also submit a fraud
complaint online through the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Bureau of Consumer Protection about a particular company or organization.
FastFocus:
Scholarships Scholarship Scam-Alert. There are scammers out
there-posing as scholarship providers or scholarship matching services-who take
your money and leave you with nothing. The good news is, you can protect
yourself from scholarship scams by following the tips offered from FastFocus.
A Free Animated
and Interactive Testing and Learning Site. Compare math & science
performance against students worldwide. Getsmarter.org provides a voluntary,
no-risk self-assessment with international benchmarks, and learning
opportunities with hints and links to help you get smarter!
Struggling Teens.
A resource for troubled adolescents and their parents is designed to help them
find programs, schools and support for handling behavioral problems. The site
includes a listing of specialized education options.
Promising Practices in
Afterschool. Provides youth workers with a valuable resource that
covers all aspects of creating or improving after school programs. The site is
managed by the Center for Youth Development at the Academy for Educational
Development.
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—NUTSHELL:
Wouldn’t it be great if you could order a
career like you order an entrée in a restaurant? Unfortunately,
it’s not that simple. But using self-assessment tools, such as the
table provided in this article, can whet your appetite for planning a
career.
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—SNIPPET:
When you were young, you might
have known exactly what you wanted to do when you grew up. Today, you
might not be so sure.
The older you get, the more you discover that choosing a career is
a complex, multistep process. It requires learning about yourself and
the occupations you are considering so that you can make an informed
decision. Assessing your interests, work preferences, and abilities
and recognizing your strengths help you to find a suitable career
direction—one that could lead to your “dream job.”
The information and table in this article are tools for matching
your personal skills with the characteristics of nearly 300
occupations. Suggested sources for continuing your career research are
included at the end of the article. 
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