Tips to Improve Your Program and Teach Difficult Concepts

This Book is full of helpful suggestions and techniques for making your program the envy of your peers. The book is filled with projects that can be used to enhance your curriculum and help promote your students success.
Table of Contents


Chapter     1     General Thoughts on Teaching
           Random Thoughts
           Our Most Challenging Tasks
           Document, Document, Document

Chapter    2     Teaching Strategies
           Integrating Academics
           Getting the Day Started
           Program Standards
           What to Teach
           The Role of Computers
           New Technology
           The Use of Training Boards
           Job Shadowing
           Employment for Students
           Rewards
           Work Journals
           Inspection Forms
           Information Sheets (handouts)
           Teaching Wiring Diagram Interpretation
           Organizing Teaching Aids
           Tracking Poor Performance
           Maintaining Classroom Order

Chapter     3     Parents
           Parent Meetings
           Contacting Parents
           Dealing with Difficult Parents

Chapter     4     Mental Illness in the Classroom
           What is Mental Illness?
           Recognizing Mental Illness
           Dealing With Mentally Ill Students

Chapter    5     Substance Abuse
           What is Substance Abuse?
           Abuse of Legal Substances
           Illegal Substances
           What to Do for Abusers


Chapter    6     Alphabet of Automotive Training
           ASE
           NATEF
           AYES

Chapter    7     Exit Testing
           Exit Testing Fundamentals
           The Next Level (Raising the Bar)

Chapter    8     Business & Education Councils
           Advisory Committees
           Recruiting
           Before the First Meeting
           The First Meeting
           What Does the Committee Do?

Chapter    9     Technology for the Classroom
           Purchasing Equipment
           Learning Styles
           Classroom Equipment

Chapter    10     Technology for the Classroom
           Ground Faults
           Other Lamp Faults
           Creating Faults in Fuses
           Circuit Breakers
           Voltage Drop
           Parasitic Loads
           Creating Other Malfunctions

Chapter    11     Concept Teaching Projects
           Demonstrating Voltage Drop
           High Impedance Test Light
           "Seeing" Inside the Alternator
Appendix
           Resources
           NATEF Certification Process Rubric
           About the Author
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