Adult Learning Plan Research Paper

Personal Learning Plan Mansi Patel Student# 4948881

Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for
ADED1P31
Foundations of Adult Education
Bachelor of Education/Certificate in Adult Education Program Centre for Adult Education and Community Outreach
Faculty of Education
Brock University
St. Catharine, Ontario Barbara A Smith, PhD. July 8, 2013

My Goal As humans we set goals in life that we want to achieve and these goals can be about anything such as, a career or even something smaller like achieving a certain grade in a course. I personally set many goals in my life such as places I want to travel to or the career path I’d like to complete. The goals that we set in life have to be SMART goals. SMART goals
One of the reasons is that reading is my biggest weakness and it is one of the most important study skill required. While conducting the discovery wheel exercise (Ellis, Toft, & Dawson, 2012), my reading section score was the lowest. “One of the bad habits that I have when I read is that I tend to read fast and skim through the text rather than actually understand the material. I sometimes even skip a few sentences in the paragraph so that I can finish reading the material faster and just get the overall idea rather than understand the details that I should be learning” M. Patel (personal communication, June 10, 2013). Also, according to “The VAK system” (Ellis et al., 2012, pg.51), I am an auditory learner and this makes it harder for me to focus when reading because a textbook cannot talk. “Being able to hear the learning material also makes me more interested and therefore I pay more attention” M. Patel (personal communication, April, 30, 2013). Another reason why I chose this goal is because I will not always have someone there such as a professor to teach me the material. The accounting designation I am planning to attain requires me to give three exams for which I have to study all on my own, without any professor teaching me the material directly from the text book. Knowing how to study strictly from a textbook will really be helpful for me in the
Also, I can compare the course I choose to my other courses while studying for exams and see how much more I need to study for the other courses for which I did not read the textbook material. After receiving the final grades for the course I can compare it to other courses as well in which I did not follow the plan. These are some of the ways that I can evaluate whether the action plan I made help me accomplish my goal or