Telling Is Not Teaching: The Flight Instructor's Handbook

De: Mike Thompson

Narrado por: Mike Norgaard

Certified flight instructors are rarely educators. Many see instruction as a stepping-stone to the next level of their flight careers and assume that merely telling is the equivalent of teaching.

This mistake is detrimental to both students and the aviation industry. Telling a student something has no bearing on actual learning. True teaching requires a much deeper level of communication.

Veteran flight instructor and educator Mike Thompson applies principles of educational psychology to the FAA-H-8083-9A Aviation Instructor’s Handbook. Using simple, down-to-earth language, Thompson examines how to enable genuine teaching by developing the student-instructor relationship.

Teaching is a human endeavor requiring an investment from student and instructor alike. Initially, it takes time to build a relationship with students, but once it’s established, rates of engagement and retention increase. True learning is then achieved.

Despite advances in educational technology, the human brain continues to learn as it always has. Thompson applies his knowledge of how people really learn and how to build effective student-teacher relationships to provide flight instructors with skills they can use to encourage deep and advanced learning.

While primarily aimed at the aviation industry, Thompson’s no-nonsense discussion of teaching and educational psychology is applicable in any instructional arena.

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Excellent

covers all important details in a well presented manner. Thanks Mike for writing this book.

Some good content, incredibly poor delivery

If I was having a conversation with the author, it would get to the point that I would say “if you use the phrase telling is not teaching one more time, I’m going to punch you in the face.” For someone with a large enough ego to think they have something useful to say about teaching, they should have the common sense to not beat their catchphrase to death and to the point that it distracts from their central ideas. It’s like they were trying to turn a 1 page essay into a 3 page essay by sprinkling in a single phrase. I’m not even finished with the book and I’m not sure that I can.