04-06-2004, 04:51 PM
HI,
. . . is that what you say is so true and so unnecessary.
When I came back from Vietnam, I was assigned to Ft. Eustis as an instructor. First thing they did when I got there was send me to a two week Method of Instruction course that was run by UV for the government. Simple stuff. Like putting together a syllabus, a lesson plan, a test. Like how to make a view foil that was visible, understandable, useful (and when not to use one at all). Like how to talk to the class, not to the board.
While that course might not have made great teachers of us, it did make us into at least effective instructors. We may not have done everything right after the course, but at least we avoided the most glaring mistakes. And all it took was about forty hours, plus "homework" -- the equivalent of one three quarter hour Freshman class.
Since most "educated" people end up doing some teaching in their careers (even if it is as little as presenting their plan/views/results in a staff meeting), I think making the equivalent of the MoI course I took a requirement for a bachelor's degree would be justified. If all it ever does is banish the view foil with two hours of information presented in twenty seconds to the trash heap, it will more than have paid for itself.
Even educated people are ignorant of what they've never seen.
--Pete
. . . is that what you say is so true and so unnecessary.
When I came back from Vietnam, I was assigned to Ft. Eustis as an instructor. First thing they did when I got there was send me to a two week Method of Instruction course that was run by UV for the government. Simple stuff. Like putting together a syllabus, a lesson plan, a test. Like how to make a view foil that was visible, understandable, useful (and when not to use one at all). Like how to talk to the class, not to the board.
While that course might not have made great teachers of us, it did make us into at least effective instructors. We may not have done everything right after the course, but at least we avoided the most glaring mistakes. And all it took was about forty hours, plus "homework" -- the equivalent of one three quarter hour Freshman class.
Since most "educated" people end up doing some teaching in their careers (even if it is as little as presenting their plan/views/results in a staff meeting), I think making the equivalent of the MoI course I took a requirement for a bachelor's degree would be justified. If all it ever does is banish the view foil with two hours of information presented in twenty seconds to the trash heap, it will more than have paid for itself.
Even educated people are ignorant of what they've never seen.
--Pete
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