A person's readiness to learn is referring to how they choose to seek out knowledge and participate in behavioral changes. With them being motivated to learn it saves both their time and their energy, and the teachers, with not having to keep going over the same known material from prior. The teacher’s job is to make sure that the learner has the least amount of stress possible, because an individual has to go through various stages in order to become accustomed to a new learning environment. Teacher’s need to match their teaching content to the patient’s current stage of readiness while trying to move the patient along to the next stage. In a study taken it shows that “attrition is a major concern in schools of nursing, and research shows that it is most prevalent in baccalaureate nursing students as they first encounter their …show more content…
One stage is experimental readiness, it’s a state of willingness to learn based on an individual's past experiences with learning. This type of readiness is based on a lot of things such as their level of aspiration on which the learner is is driven to achieve, their previous failures also influence their goals. The learner's past coping mechanisms can help be determined if useful or not with help from the teacher. An individual's cultural background such as how they behave and the language they speak. Their locus of control such as internal versus external stimuli, and their orientation. Another stage is an emotional readiness of a person. “Research provides evidence that social-emotional competence is a key component of school readiness and that the foundations for social- emotional competence are laid down in the earliest years (O. Gray,