Dennis DoughertyCHEP

Over the years of being an instructor, I have been molded into the guide. In the beginning I was not.

By empowering the students to take ownership, they become more vested in their learning experience and have a tendency to succeed at a higher rate.

I have had a couple of experiences with cohort groups. The first was an experience where I had not truly learned class control yet. That particular group was very hard to keep in line and was a big distraction for the rest of the class. Since that point I have learned to find who the cohort groups were and use them to my advantage. For example if I were teaching transmissions, I would first find out who that students were that had been to another trans. class or had field experience. I would then separate that group and make lab… >>>