6 Sept 2012,

This week I spent approximately two and a half hours with student going over human anatomy  and continuing going over rank structure within the Army and ROTC program. I also worked with student to memorize the ROTC creed for the week of 3 September 2012 through 7 September 2012. Again the learning sessions took place while at home with minimal distractions. Both human anatomy and ROTC learning sessions require memorization at this point. We spent an hour on human anatomy one day and then an hour with ROTC the following day with an additional 20 minutes going over the parts of the human anatomy from previous session.

 
Student did well at memorizing material using a picture of human anatomy but not as well when taking the picture away from him. We made up cards with the terms on one side and the definition on the other with the specific area that it correlated to in the body.  This seemed to help with both remembering the functions and location without using a visual aid. During the ROTC module we went over rank structures again from first week adding the ROTC creed. I explained that by being repetitive in reading the creed and rank structure that memorization will come easier.  

The student reacted well to different approaches to learning set terms, not only visually but by terminology and description of lesson material. Attention span was good throughout study period.  Student states that he is fine without my help, but when left alone for a while I find him struggling or disinterested in subject.

Student seemed to learn faster when not held to one set way to learning the human anatomy and rank structure. I think that it was good to put a question to the student to engage him and let him come up with a solution to learn the material in a more interesting way. I am using the article Questioning and Discussion, implementing talent oriented questions to formulate a strategy to better organize his thoughts.