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Learning Journey, Understanding of Planning, and Revision

 Learning as a whole can be a vastly different experience for every and anyone. For me? Learning has been an upward battle. Some concepts seem to be woefully incomprehensible to me, and others click in a matter of moments. This was in no part due to any efforts from my teachers during schooling, but rather how my brain seemed to operate. I developed tools to help me process difficult-to-understand information and applied a "focus on my strengths" mindset to help me dedicate my energy to aspects of learning that appealed to me. Throughout my schooling, often I worked best with clear, laid-out instructions and learning objectives. If I knew exactly what was being asked from me (content), and in what format it was expected (presentation), then I had little to no trouble completing the task ahead. However, modern education has taken a shift away from "following instructions," and more towards objective criteria that can have a multitude of ways to achieve the said objec...
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Rohan Smith - Who Am I?

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  Kia ora, my name is Rohan Smith.     Freshly having finished my Bachelor of Arts majoring in English and history, I have taken my final steps toward my lifelong dream of becoming a teacher. Currently residing in Rosedale / Albany in Auckland's North Shore, I was raised in Hawke's Bay for the first half of my childhood before moving up to Auckland where I have remained since. My primary teaching subjects are in history, with junior subjects in English and social sciences.     I am an avid enjoyer of history, from the Classical Era of Greek and Roman philosophers and military geniuses to the legendary saga of the Eastern Roman Empire, through to the Napoleonic Era, and of course, the First and Second World Wars. More recently, however, I have begun looking into the 20th-century  conflicts that involved New Zealand, and how these conflicts have shaped our national identity via the ANZAC corps during World War One, and the NZEF2 during World War Two. I t...
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