Archive for the ‘Instructor’ Category
Wednesday, March 21st, 2012
Stories about "accountability", or a lack thereof, appear regularly in the media, are frequently the topic of congressional hearings and are often the basis for civil lawsuits. We discuss accountability as a component of trustworthiness during our ethics training in the police academy. I forcefully inculcate to the ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
It is no secret that top-level athletes, successful business people and achievers in all fields have at least one thing in common, they all tend to be compulsive goal-setters. They use short-term, intermediate and long-term goals to provide motivation and to serve as a road map to success. This ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
A while back, I had the pleasure of visiting the Crater Criminal Justice Training Academy, a regional criminal justice academy located in Disputanta, VA, to teach an Instructor Development course. There were fifteen instructor candidates from a variety of agencies enrolled in the course and they definitely earned their stripes.
I ...
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Thursday, June 28th, 2007
When I teach new instructor candidates, I always include statistics about how different teaching strategies can impact learning. To be honest, I never knew the source of the information I was using until a couple of days ago. My son was doing research on effective teaching methods for ...
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Saturday, May 12th, 2007
Anyone that is involved in the recruiting process for a criminal justice agency knows that it is getting increasingly more challenging to find qualified applicants. Candidates that look good at first blush are often eliminated due to criminal or serious traffic convictions, past employment issues, drug use, financial missteps ...
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Friday, March 9th, 2007
Several years ago, when I worked for the Division of Forensic Science, we were responsible for a statewide police Breathalyzer operator certification program. During an internal review of operator performance, we realized that a higher than acceptable number of operators were not retaining sufficient job knowledge and technical skills. ...
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Monday, February 12th, 2007
This is the fifth (and final) segment in a series of Quick Tips covering a wide range of adult learning principles. So if you are an inexperienced instructor, you may want to read these tips carefully and think about how you can incorporate them into your curriculum. If you are ...
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Saturday, February 10th, 2007
This is the fourth segment in a series of Quick Tips covering a wide range of adult learning principles. So if you are an inexperienced instructor, you may want to read these tips carefully and think about how you can incorporate them into your curriculum. If you are an experienced ...
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Wednesday, February 7th, 2007
This is the third segment in a series of Quick Tips covering a wide range of adult learning principles. So if you are an inexperienced instructor, you may want to read these tips carefully and think about how you can incorporate them into your curriculum. If you are an experienced ...
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Monday, February 5th, 2007
This is the second segment in a series of Quick Tips covering a wide range of adult learning principles. So if you are an inexperienced instructor, you may want to read these tips carefully and think about how you can incorporate them into your curriculum. If you are an experienced ...
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Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
This is the first segment in a series of Quick Tips covering a wide range of adult learning principles. So if you are an inexperienced instructor, you may want to read these tips carefully and think about how you can incorporate them into your curriculum. If you are an experienced ...
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Friday, October 13th, 2006
In the law enforcement profession, we give a lot of lip service to the concept of "ethics". I have attended and taught numerous courses on professionalism and ethics and I have heard a long list of definitions of ethics. The one thing that I have concluded after all ...
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Monday, March 13th, 2006
Reprinted from a 03/07/2006 article by Brenden Sager in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Recruits in a Cobb County police firearms class were worried about an instructor's teaching methods moments before he shot and killed a member of the class, an investigative report released Friday shows.
In fact, the report said that recruits in ...
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Saturday, December 24th, 2005
If you must give a speech or read in public, this post from the AIRDaily list might be useful. Although it is intended for podcasters, some of the tips will be useful for anyone who is tasked with a public speaking assignment that involves reading from a script. (I ...
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