Adult Learning Experience

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I have in all my undergraduate study been told what to do as student. All the information, tasks and assignment were delivered and dictated by the teachers in charge of the subject or the modules, and as students I had to follow the instruction giving, however, since I came to Cardiff university to do my master degree on health care science, the attitudes of the teachers and the way the modules structured which was different form the way I used to and had influence (presage) in my view the way we teach our Operating Department Practitioners ODPs and students nurses coming to the operating theatre for their post qualification internal ship and hoping that I will introduce a change in order to assist new ODPs and nurses graduates in order to help them building their capabilities to work independently and safely, the aim of the internal ship period is to produce competent theatre practitioners in term of skills, knowledge, confidence and learning responsibility Quinn et al. (2007). Therefore a lot of effort must be utilised to help them in the transition period form students to qualified staff (Simelane et al.1997).

Each internal ship will be assigned with a mentor but also has to work with others qualified staffs, part of the contract of each staff is teaching in work place, this system was introduce to develop and support new graduates in practice and (will be called educators through out this assignment). Exposing to different educators may have an advantage for the learner to be exposed to different type of educators with different experience yet ever one expected to achieve the same objectives with each learner.

Despite the different strategies that health educators use in ODPs and nursing, a theory and practice gap still ex...

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...ning and evaluation of my learning. I have become more motivated to do the course as I have been responsible of my own learning and identifying resources for learning, therefore, have more confident in making decision.

4. Analysis: having been through the adult learning experience I have realised the roll of learner and teacher in this approach. An effective teacher can facilitate the development of independence, self confidence, learning satisfaction and help students (the learner) to critical think. This experience has taught me that there are different styles of learning and teaching that I can adopt in my future.

5. Conclusion: having been involved in teaching students in their internal ship time, the style of teaching and the experience of my undergraduate compare with the new approach in my postgraduate as an adult learning approach, I have realised now that

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