Archive for the ‘Training’ Category
Friday, December 18th, 2015
I have suspected that the increase in the "helicopter" parenting methodology and the decrease in holding children accountable for their actions was going to have an impact on our culture. If you couple that is the "everyone gets a trophy" crowd so we can protect our children from ever experiencing ...
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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, November 3rd, 2010
Some folks will complain that online classes are less useful than traditional, in-classroom courses. However, that conclusion flies in the face of recent conclusions from researchers and professors who say that for certain topics, online classes work better. In fact, a recent report by the U.S. Department of Education found ...
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Sunday, May 23rd, 2010
Green means go; red means stop; and yellow means go like hell to beat it. Apparently some drivers aren't even that cautious. Check out this "Red Light Runners Compilation"
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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
I don't usually just re-post items from other blogs but this was an issue I had never heard of before so I thought it was worth posting. Dr. Jennifer Ashton talks with CBSNews.com's Cali Carlin about exercise bulimia, an eating disorder where going to the gym can turn deadly.
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Thursday, August 20th, 2009
A recent 93-page report on online education, conducted by SRI International for the Department of Education, has a starchy academic title, but a most intriguing conclusion: “On average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction.”
The report examined the comparative research on online versus traditional classroom ...
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
A Roanoke County Police Department recruit and an instructor crashed during a training exercise at the agency's driver training range. The vehicle ran off the road, went down an embankment and landed upside down in a creek.
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
The military, fire departments and police departments have something in common. They are all trying to find "a few good men or women" and they are meeting with limited success. It is not an issue of education or intelligence since there a host for well educated applicants. ...
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
When I was growing up, I ran around with a group of gear heads that lived and breathed cars. We were usually driving “beater” cars that we pieced together for about $100 so sometimes we did not have all of the pieces. Among the pieces that were frequently missing or ...
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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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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
In the Instructor Development course that I teach, I stress the importance of using audio-visual aids to increase your students' retention of information.
With a little practice and a good template, its fairly easy to turn out a good PowerPoint or Keynote presentation. Occasionally (please note that I even spelled ...
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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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Friday, February 29th, 2008
In several previous articles, I have encouraged law enforcement supervisors to take advantage of roll call to squeeze in a few minutes of training. The internet is a treasure trove of useful information that can be used to put together a quick training course. Recently, Ken Wallentine, a ...
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
When was the last time that you examined your training calendar with “why” in mind? When most people look at the annual training calendar, they are interested in "what" training courses are available and "when" they are scheduled to occur. However, as a training manager it is very ...
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