Personal Learning Influences

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P1- Explain key influences on the personal learning process of individuals. M1- Assess the impact of key influences on the personal learning processes of own learning Aspirations and Motivations My aspiration is to become a social worker; this influences my learning in the sense that it gives me the hunger to learn new things and improve my knowledge, by improving my knowledge I will be equipped to go onto the next stage of my development. I believe that if I did not have such a desire to be a social worker, it would affect my learning by creating a mental blockage which would disallow my ability to take things in and learn; I would become lazy and uninterested from the lack of direction in my life. As soon as I realised what I wanted to…show more content…
Now that I am doing a vocational course, I feel as if school didn’t prepare me for this new journey, I didn’t have the skills to do thorough research which is needed in BTEC Health and Social care, everything is coursework based as opposed to the previously examination based courses I was studying; this suddenly made me feel as though I wasn’t taking in information very well. I was stuck in revision mode and having to remember things to implement them in exams, only this time there were no exams so I quickly adopted a lazy attitude in the first year of this course and reduced my work quality by thinking that I had to read the text books and write them up as scripts in my own words which was far from correct. This also caused my attendance to drop because I thought everything was so ‘easy’ which had its own consequences; I missed a lot of valuable information given in classes that would mean I would actually learn new things. I started panicking and started to attend again; being patient with myself so as to learn new skills and it did pay off in the end because I actually started to understand how to execute my assignments properly. This was purely because of my own commitment and drives to stick to something and learn contrary to implementing my previous experiences of…show more content…
I have the tendency to lose interest quickly which is terrible in most cases, especially when it comes to learning; sometimes when I am trying to grasps a concept that doesn’t make much sense to me, I sabotage my learning process because my brain seems as if it is almost shutting down even when I try to concentrate very hard. This would not serve me well in a working environment as I cannot just shut down as soon as I have lost interest, as that would stunt my professional development. Being a dominant character is not always a good thing because sometimes I am reluctant to let someone else take charge which has probably cost me a lot of learning opportunities in the past. A ‘Jump first/think later’ mentality is definitely the worst sort of mentality to have when in a working environment, especially when dealing with people; things have to be calculated with all details taken into consideration and could lead to a lot of errors and disciplinary actions, although this could be a valuable learning experience to not do it again, it is worse to make such errors as this reckless mentality is neither valid in a work environment or professional. There is no truer statement for me than I talk more often than I listen, I do not favour listening or when I have to

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