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Wellspring offers a wide variety of subjects for their students to learn and their teachers to teach. Ranging from Vietnamese program to International program subjects along with AP courses and extracurriculars.
While all subjects are taught for the purpose of preparing us for our future, they are seen so differently in the crowd. Subjects are so varied, and like everything with variation, people have wildly different opinions on them. It seems impossible for opinion to be mapped out in any way that satisfies both a chart and human taste. Yet can there possibly be a little bit of rooted science in this objectively subjective factor? What makes a favorite or least favorite subject?
The Way Our Brain Takes In Information We Like or Dislike
According to The University of Alabama at Birmingham, “Both immediate performance and long-term retention improve significantly compared to traditional methods when learning is enjoyable.” In contrast, when you don’t like what you’re learning, “Attention becomes inefficient [and] learning still happens, it just requires more effort and typically produces weaker retention [...]”. Certain things are simply more appealing, so we naturally want to remember and learn as much as we can about it.
Order Of Operations
The order in which you learn something can also have an effect on how fun you find its content to consume. For example, if you were to learn how chemical formulae or bonding works without even knowing what elements are, then that certainly wouldn’t be as fun since you’re forced to learn 2 things at once. Metaphorically, instead of walking up stairs one by one, you’re triple-stepping. Not fun, or easy. Without a solid foundation, learning can become hard, and over time it can be annoying or tiring to constantly prepare for twice the number of concepts learned in 1 session.
How Much Time is Too Much Time?
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Some people say constant or frequent exposure is all you need to actively store inforven too much of the good things will make it bad again. According to The Decision Labs, “We can actually start to avoid something if we are exposed too much to it. A 1990 study by Bornstein R. F. identifies this as “boredom” with the stimulus.”. Learning past tense 10 times over in a year certainly makes you roll your eyes upon hearing about it, so to all the students and teachers: tread carefully.
Of course, there are many things that this article doesn’t talk about, like how different curriculums teach different points, potentially with outdated information and misconceptions, or that even the average science of it all still doesn’t accommodate people who don’t fit the “average person”. However, next time you sit down for another boring lecture, know that there’s a reason you don’t like it.mation. But as any good dietitian will tell you, e
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