Kevin Shockency

I feel the pressures of stress and responsibility mostly when I do doubles. I have a child with special needs and have adopted a mother and her two children with special needs and an ex meth adict. To help pay the bills I do side jobs out of the garage and at the track to pay for vacations and extra things that come up. My wife stays home to take care of everyone and I do my best to help her when I am not working. We don't have a lot of free time, but we make a date half… >>>

I was in a position years ago when a non performing boss was replaced with a new one. I was the lead on the projects underneath him and ended working 70-80 hours a week to mantain and keep up with the disorganization comming from HQ. When the new boss came in there was little room for negotiation. He basically said things are going to change and he did not agree with the last boss's decisions. I was interested and eager to try a new direction and they laid off the entire team 2 weeks later. I doubt I had much… >>>

In some minds the first thing to create structure in a class is by using biggest hammer you can find and cracking down on the students that get out of line. While this may relive tension in the instructor it will only bring retalliation in the student. I find preparing the students at the beginning of class with requirements, rules and regs to understand what is expected of them. When working with them I find being firm yet fair, explaining why they were docked points and how it would affect them in the field works well. I tend to get… >>>

As instructors we need to reinforce retention in our students by showing the value of their education. A good way to do this is to point out how this information and practice will affect them when they leave the learning environment and start working in the field. Questions like, “What will you do when “X” happens?,” “Are you ready to do this without help or practice?,” “Will the customer want to pay you for the level of work you provide?,” place them in the theoretical situation and make them think about what happens after all this, am I ready, will… >>>