After 10 years part-time with the same training organisation, I have been culled! Long story short, I refused to take a group of 9 lads through the 18th in a classroom situation back in June due to C19 ( I am at that age where I dont want to get the damn thing). So fair enough, in steps the PAT tutor. Good man he is too, not from an electrical background and wouldnt know the difference between an ACB and a SPD! Still, he presented a 3-day course that was well received, more especially since everyone passed. I have no idea of the content other than that it included hundreds of multiple-choice questions. Happy with the outcome, and also perhaps because the tutor was half a hundred cheaper than me per day, poor uncle Lyle has been dumped! Yes, my feathers are ruffled a tad but perhaps the course that I presented which, I felt, was grounded on good solid learning is really not the ticket for an industry that just wants success in an exam! Ah well, back to shopping in Lidl!
...I dont fit well with the "here are the answers, dont worry about the questions" type approach....
Reminds me of one of the tales in Richard Feynman's book Surely you're joking, Mr Feynman. He taught for a year in Brazil and found that the students would be able to answer a question one day but not the next, which he finally realised was due to the way the questions were phrased. They had learned the answers to the questions, but not what they meant. It was the difference between teaching students to pass an exam and actually teaching them physics!
...I dont fit well with the "here are the answers, dont worry about the questions" type approach....
Reminds me of one of the tales in Richard Feynman's book Surely you're joking, Mr Feynman. He taught for a year in Brazil and found that the students would be able to answer a question one day but not the next, which he finally realised was due to the way the questions were phrased. They had learned the answers to the questions, but not what they meant. It was the difference between teaching students to pass an exam and actually teaching them physics!
