A good focal point as an instructor is to gauge the differences in ages in the classroom. Differences in age may hinder both the younger students as well as older students in different ways. For example, older students have different motivations as to why they would choose the aviation career path from an intrinsic perspective also while the younger students who come with many tools from their High Schools see the aviation career path as an adventure and not focus in on academics as one would like. This myopic approach can prevent the younger groups to lose interest in the technical and academic aspect and skip class and or under perform. The varying differences in age factors, motivations, may also prevent the older group whom perceives their limitations frustrating their own actual abilities. What's the lesson from this? Instruction is of varying differences and the classroom is not a case and must be treated as a case because cases are heard and questioned but the classroom is not static and dynamic demanding the energy it requires to achive overall student self-actualization to be realized.
