In addition to reflection being essential in the physical Therapy field, …show more content…
I completed a personal learning style questionnaire in class shown in appendix A. First, I am a reflective learner. A reflective learner, such as myself, must thoroughly think through a concept before understanding it, thus taking me longer to study. Although more effort is placed into understanding a particular concept, once I do understand it, I am able to retain the information. Second, I am a sensory learner. A sensory learner has to relate concepts to real life situations in order to retain information. Notably, during a clinical rotation, me and my clinical instructor had a patient who had multiple sclerosis, consequently, during the time I was learning about it in my Clinical Medicine class. By having this patient, it helped put the condition in a better perspective, so that I was able to understand it in class. At the same time, this learning style can be a problem for me at times in the classroom setting, given that not all teachers give examples for certain concepts, therefore, in the future I will think outside of the box and learn to apply more of my personal experiences to …show more content…
In my practice, my learning style will help give patients a visual on how to do certain exercises and have the ability to apply the importance of the exercises to day to day activities. Although it is great to give patients a visual as it comes to learning techniques and exercises in the clinic, I must adapt to different learning styles due to my patients not learning the same way as I do. For example, during the teaching and learning experience with the medical students, I noticed that a few students did not seem as if they understood what I was teaching them, which could be related to their particular learning style. By me not knowing their learning style it leads to miscommunication between what I needed them to know and the information they received due to their learning