Curtis Chancy

Professor Raymond
UWRT 1102- E01
Writing prompt 3

Remembering a Time Learning Clicked

The ability to learn has always been a rough one for me. I have never been one to be able to just
pick up a topic that was foreign to me and be Simi-Verse on it quickly. However, when I was in
high school my biology teacher found a way to combat this issue that I had as well as many other
students. He would explain whatever the lesson for that day or week would be. From there he
would break it down in ways that we could relate. One example that I can remember is how he
got us to remember the parts of a cell was by thinking about the different organelles and their
jobs as the faculty of the school. He labeled each organelle with a corresponding job to
something with the faculty and their profession. Then he would have us watch a video on the
subject. After all these different ways of teaching it to us he would have us conduct a lab
assignment to identify the different organelles a given cell. He would use so many different
methods from kinetics, audio, visual, and connections. When he would combine all of these
different methods it would help make the information more concrete in our minds. The help of
different styles of learning in this class made it interesting and help us retain it easier. This was a
positive learning experience for me not because I can still label a cell, it is positive because it
helps me now in college to learn how to study and retain the overwhelming about of information
we are given.