Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 24368, member: 57463&quot;]Definitely not!&nbsp; From 1985-1990, I taught several classes at Lansing Community College.&nbsp; I have an associate&#039;s degree only.&nbsp; When I was asked to teach technical report writing, I protested that I lack the requisite degrees.&nbsp; The department head replied, &quot;We teach pipefitting here.&nbsp; No one has a Ph.D. in pipefitting.&quot;&nbsp; So, I taught technical writing, mostly, and also a term of algebra, and two terms of computer aided design.&nbsp; At Lansing Community College, most of the faculty were simply &quot;instructors.&quot;&nbsp; However, on the DEC VAX, I set my username to DOCENT.</p><p><br /></p><p>I actually did more teaching in the private sector.&nbsp; At Kawasaki Robotics, I taught &quot;Operations and Programming.&quot;&nbsp; Most of our clients were skilled trades, electricians, usually, from Ford Motor Company.&nbsp; I think that in two years, I had four weeks off from the classroom and I spent those writing manuals.&nbsp; At Carl Zeiss IMT, I taught &quot;Metrology&quot; mostly to skilled trades at General Motors.&nbsp; When I was at KRI, I took a class at LCC in &quot;Factory Automation&quot; just to learn more -- and I did, though not what I expected.&nbsp; I thought that as a trainer in automation, I would have an easy time with the final paper.&nbsp; IN fact, I discovered that the books on &quot;education&quot; in the library are in another place from the books on &quot;training.&quot;&nbsp; <u>Training</u> deals with adults who need to know how to do things.&nbsp; It changed my view of the classroom.</p><p><br /></p><p>As a student pilot, I have had many opportunities to experience different kinds of training programs and styles.&nbsp; (See the articles on <a href="http://www.studentpilot.com" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.studentpilot.com" rel="nofollow">www.studentpilot.com</a>)&nbsp; How adults learn is an interesting subject.&nbsp; As far as it applies to coins, I have used some of this in my Numismatic Theater presentations at ANA conventions.&nbsp; When I know that I am going to be videotaped for the library archives, I deliver a college-type lecture.&nbsp; However, without the camera there, I have opened up the floor and moderated a discussion.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Adults come with a lifetime of experience and it is demeaning to you and to them to pretend that you are the Endowed Expert Dispensing Knowledge.&nbsp; A better approach is to bring to them information they want and to suggest applications for it.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortuately, we are all pretty much conditioned by the &quot;public&quot; school classroom and we tend to feel comfortable sitting in passive ranks and files.&nbsp; (By &quot;public&quot; I also mean the British system we would call &quot;private&quot; as well as the parochial models.&nbsp; All of them go back to the mediæval university where instructors were invested by the Highest Authority, since this is the &quot;Papal Coins&quot; topic.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in