It was interesting doing these quizzes in class. My personal VARK was very biased towards physical and auditory learning with a zero in reading/writing which sounds true to my life. My MBTI profile was INFP, I kind of am a very intuitive and feeling person which is kind of interesting coming from a science background, I have feeling some of my friends may see me as more of a sensing person than an intuitive one based on my love of trivial facts, but agree that despite my understanding of a situation I always go by feeling.

Learning is complicated, but I see these profiles in my learning. I really thrive in discussions and questioning but cannot process verbal facts and figures for the life of me, but both are auditory. I always take notes covered in diagrams and arrows because otherwise I don’t fully process the information that I’m writing down so I fully accept my weakness in that area and hopefully can practice to improve it somehow.             

I think my learning style would be helpful towards my students in that having a lower reliance on reading/writing it should be easier to adapt when there are ESL students or others where written instruction is not always easy, I also hope that by seeing the world through Intuition and perceiving I can bring more joy and curiosity to what could otherwise be fairly dry lessons. I hope this allows to create greater connections between my students and the content increasing their engagement.  I do worry that I may end up giving confusing or incomplete written instructions or feedback which will be bad for students who rely on that information either from their own learning style or for practical reasons like accessibility or future reference.

The TPI gave me an average of 34 which I think shows I have some lofty goals for my teaching, and also that I’m consistent between belief, intent, and actions. This is easier for me to say now because I’ve only spent six weeks in a classroom, I’m sure as I continue my practice that things will change and focus.  The exception being that I intend to, but do not act or believe in developing students knowledge from their point of view which is new to me. I am not surprised that I value apprenticeship learning and transmission of knowledge because that is my own preference for learning that I see as valuable. I think developmentally I had the perspective that wherever students are coming from they can gain some learning from any content if presented in the right way but that is something I will have to keep an eye on.