Kevin Shockency

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Barry, Great input. It never hurts to have an inside voice in your corner. As far as visual input, I feel that field trips connect on many levels, visual, audial, and hands on. The more avenues we use to store information and the more effort it takes to learn it, the easier it seems for us to find it later. Kevin
I remember college classes and even grade school classes having fieldtrips. It was exciting to see what we were learning about in person. I tended to remember those trips very clearly for a long time. Considering the amount of learning and retention associated with it I would love to organize fieldtrips at this institution, however, there is the concern of liability. How can we overcome this?

I love using this technique for my students. Being in the Motorcycle Mechanics field I find the students are forced to use something they aren't used to using, their brains. Seriously, they don't think they need to in a trade school and that is just not the case. Troubleshooting is all about logic and problem solving. Without using this part of the brain they are seriously limited in the field to mundane jobs. The greatest leaders of our industry that these students look up to as heros and idols are excellent at problem solving. That is how they got there.… >>>

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