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lt1s10 · 04-04-2006, 03:39 AM

I'm not sure which group I'm in or what I want my students to be in. I taught for 2 years full-time and have taught courses 3 or 4 times a year for the last 4 years.

The goal is supposed to be jamming enough information into my students in a short time to pass the cert exam. But I really want both performance and perfection from my students. It's important to me that as much as possible they can do both, know when to do it, and why one may be better then the other. This is more valuable then being able to repeat the curriculum word for word. Or memorizing enough practice questions to pick the most likely multiple guess answer.

Under the gun to diagnose and fix a problem you must be performance oriented. Identify the problem and fix it or at least restore connectivity/functionality as soon as possible. But how you get better at that is definitely perfection oriented in my experience. Finding out what others have done before, would have done, and why what you did made a difference. Knowing how and where to find answers is important. As fast as technology changes there's no way you can work for a long period of time in my industry without constantly learning and finding out what's new that coming and what may be changing for economy, efficency, or just out of obsolecence.

The students that I've seen do the best are the ones that are most flexible and have a natural ability or interest in the subject. They know someone is waiting and they don't care what wrong it just needs to be fixed. And if everything is running smoothly they are willing to tweak performance or watch and become very familiar with normal so that when things change it's immediately obvious to them. The very hard working students tend to be too perfection oriented. They have to be able to do it every single way possible and know why which is nearly impossible. And the majority that only do enough to get by are too performance oriented. Once it's good enough they don't care how or why or what they could do different.

I'm not the best teacher and I don't create the best test takers. But I strive to give my students the best view of what they will see and do and give them enough knowledge and skill to accomplish their jobs well with as little stress as possible.

04-04-2006, 03:39 AM	#6 (permalink)
lt1s10 Crazy	I'm not sure which group I'm in or what I want my students to be in. I taught for 2 years full-time and have taught courses 3 or 4 times a year for the last 4 years. The goal is supposed to be jamming enough information into my students in a short time to pass the cert exam. But I really want both performance and perfection from my students. It's important to me that as much as possible they can do both, know when to do it, and why one may be better then the other. This is more valuable then being able to repeat the curriculum word for word. Or memorizing enough practice questions to pick the most likely multiple guess answer. Under the gun to diagnose and fix a problem you must be performance oriented. Identify the problem and fix it or at least restore connectivity/functionality as soon as possible. But how you get better at that is definitely perfection oriented in my experience. Finding out what others have done before, would have done, and why what you did made a difference. Knowing how and where to find answers is important. As fast as technology changes there's no way you can work for a long period of time in my industry without constantly learning and finding out what's new that coming and what may be changing for economy, efficency, or just out of obsolecence. The students that I've seen do the best are the ones that are most flexible and have a natural ability or interest in the subject. They know someone is waiting and they don't care what wrong it just needs to be fixed. And if everything is running smoothly they are willing to tweak performance or watch and become very familiar with normal so that when things change it's immediately obvious to them. The very hard working students tend to be too perfection oriented. They have to be able to do it every single way possible and know why which is nearly impossible. And the majority that only do enough to get by are too performance oriented. Once it's good enough they don't care how or why or what they could do different. I'm not the best teacher and I don't create the best test takers. But I strive to give my students the best view of what they will see and do and give them enough knowledge and skill to accomplish their jobs well with as little stress as possible.