Charles Nance

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Expectations are a prediction of the future.Impossible for the precieved outcome to be matched.An instuctor has a callender or a time organizer so our expectations of what needs to be done will get done.Knowing (or expecting)the indavidual students performance sometimes may be dissapoiinting.The students that I've "expected" to do better than their performance will get a feeling of dissapointment from me because I know they would exell with a bit more effort.Now the student knows "somebody" cares and "is" paying attention to him/her.They now have a motive to show me how good they really are.Over the years I have been… >>>

Charles Nance

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consistancy

Stay consistant with whatever you do.If you start out hard stay hard.If your loose stay loose.

Charles Nance

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Confirming students understand

Most student's (I have noticed) don't ask questions even if they don't understand.I'll ask who does not understand? I get a better responce than if I say does everybody understand? I try to slow down and have as many training aids for demonstration as possible.Try to spend indavidual time also.

Charles Nance

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Stories.

Annalogies are great way to bring a difficult subject down to earth.When I discuss long and short rod theories I bring up 2 dogs I used to have,one a very large (long legged)or long rod, and a very small dog (short legged)or short rod. I threw a bone in the back yard & the small dog bolted in front of the big dog.A few moments later the large dog took over and got the bone first.The same way short rods have bottom end power over long rods.And long rods have the top end power over short.

Charles Nance

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Stories.

Students love stories of our lifes experiences.I (I'm sure most do)incorporate at least a few different examples of my personal doings during any given topic/lecture.I have this "thing" I call stories with pictures.During lecture with my stories I'll show them the picture of what I'm talking about.I have a collage of several vehicles on a board with numbers on each picture.For extra credit or fun time burning,they match the picture with a question from a certain subject.I.E. A 67 Shelby stang the one that had a vibration because I didn't match the flexplate with a new one.(keep parts till the… >>>