Learning Theories.. Day Four
2.00am
I am a night person...I always do my studying during the night when I am quiet and in a reflective mode. Today it was a hectic day were we analyzed several learning theories and the participants had to recognise a learning theory from a given statement. We all managed to do the matching. We noticed that in our work in the caring profession more than one theory can be applied in fact a theory may overlap one another.
As a mentor one needs to be prepared for the student Erasmus or local that will be allocated to your ward. Certain information must be given to the mentors by the educators so that they would know what to except.... the student has to set up a set of objectives she/he wishes to achieve in the placement. Here there is also diversity. In some countries the set of objectives is laid out while in others it is more flexible. I believe it is beneficial to be a little flexible so that the objectives of the contract can be achieved. At the end of the day the competency will be checked.
In the evening we went to Avenue Q . Maltese, Finns and Italians came to the show we were one big jolly group!!...Good show!! One cannot visit London and not see such a show!!! We really laughed and enjoyed ourselves...Our friendship is continuing to go grow...WOW!!!