Students at Carter High School learn in different ways.

Not all people are exactly the same.

Kloie Powell is a sophomore at Carter High School. When asked the question, “How do you learn best?” Kloie responds with, “I learn best in a more interactive environment where the students are engaged and the teacher lets them communicate with one another.” She adds on to this saying, she likes to have a lively teacher. This helps her be engaged in the learning process. She begins to list the different types of work she prefers. “ I prefer doing notes and book work. Book work helps me because I can look back on it and it just gets the information into my head more efficiently.” 

Kloie relates with many students in the aspect that they like being able to communicate with the people around them. In an article from the Yale Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning, the text states that, “ Students learn by connecting new knowledge with knowledge and concepts that they already know, most effectively in active social classrooms where they negotiate understanding through interaction and varied approaches.”  This shows the connection between Kloie and kids across the world. These children are known as auditory learners. The website Ability Path states, “Children who are auditory processors learn through participating in discussions and talking things through.” This information helps support that children that like communicating and being involved in the class discussion, are auditory learners. 

Harrison Fortenberry is also a sophomore at Carter High School. He is on a completely different side with these questions. When asked the same things as Kloie, he says “ I would much rather be in a calm, quiet environment. If people are talking around me then I can’t focus at all.” This is all the input he put on the topic. He didn’t really know what to say about anything else. 

Harrisons way of learning is completely different from Kloies, and that’s how it is for other kids as well. On the website Everyday Mental Health Classroom Resource, there are all kinds of articles talking about children who prefer calm environments. One of which says, “Calm classrooms are good for all and especially important for students who need a predictable and steady environment to be successful.” This shows that it is very important for certain kids to have a calm environment to learn and be successful. The article also talks about how calm classrooms make kids feel safe. So, Harrison is one of the kids who learns best when they feel calm and safe.  

This supports the fact that not all people are the same. We are all at least slightly different and definitely don’t think in the same way.