About me
My name is Walter Clement. I am a Sergeant with the Detroit Police Department. I have been with the department for more than 28 years and have served the department in various capacities. I was an Academy Instructor, Sex Crimes Investigator, Special Response Team member, and with the Grants and Contracts Administration Unit. I was the Project Director of the Community Policing Empowerment Zone. I am also a supervisory member of the Underwater Recovery Team as well as a patrol supervisor. I was thinking of throwing in the towel, until the economy crashed. My retirement cushion evaporated causing me to increase my stay.
Currently, I am assigned to the Police Training Center as an FTO supervisor, instructor, grant writer and anything else my boss finds for me to do. I am still having fun teaching classes and working at CTU.
I graduated from Eastern Michigan University with a BS in Criminal Justice. I Graduated from Colorado Technical University with a Masters in Business Management and a MBA in Human Resource Management.
Hello Debbie
Teaching online requires expert time management in addition to the highly developed verbal and written communication skills required of all instructors; classroom and online.
In the on ground setting, communication is a bidirectional process. With online, however, the communication process is asynchronous.
To redirect a floundering student, the instructor must learn how to structure their verbiage so that when read, the student understands what is written in the way you intended it to be understood. This is both a skill and an art.
The online instructor must use voice inflections to assist effective communication. It is the voice… >>>