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<blockquote data-quote="Phil Graham" data-source="post: 33101" data-attributes="member: 430">Re: Topics suggestions for advanced system tech and tuning classJay, thanks for the kind words. I am encouraged to see a professional educator be supportive of the general methodology.We want the attendees to have to think on their feet, and then have their thinking critiqued in a public setting of their peers. I feel both of these experiences are challenging and helpful.I&#039;ve never studied education formally, but there are a few circumstances in my life that inform my teaching approach:1. As a 12th year in high school, my AP English literature teacher had all students in the class read every book, but then assign a more detailed report for each book to a small group of students. Those students then made a crib sheet and presentation for each book. At the end of the course, our entire class had read all the books, and had a notebook full of preparatory reminder material on each of the books for the AP exam.2. In my undergraduate engineering writing class we had to make a video taped PowerPoint presentation in front of our classmates. We then analyzed the tapes of each presentation as a class collective. I aced my graduate school presentations class as a consequence of this undergraduate experience.3. I&#039;ve been a teaching assistant at both the undergraduate and graduate levels in engineering, and lectured some at the undergraduate level.4. I&#039;ve taught on a variety of topics related to professional audio, typically from memory using a whiteboard and responding to the specific requirements of the trainees. I&#039;ve learned a fair amount about what works, and what doesn&#039;t, as a result.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Phil Graham, post: 33101, member: 430"] Re: Topics suggestions for advanced system tech and tuning class Jay, thanks for the kind words. I am encouraged to see a professional educator be supportive of the general methodology. We want the attendees to have to think on their feet, and then have their thinking critiqued in a public setting of their peers. I feel both of these experiences are challenging and helpful. I've never studied education formally, but there are a few circumstances in my life that inform my teaching approach: 1. As a 12th year in high school, my AP English literature teacher had all students in the class read every book, but then assign a more detailed report for each book to a small group of students. Those students then made a crib sheet and presentation for each book. At the end of the course, our entire class had read all the books, and had a notebook full of preparatory reminder material on each of the books for the AP exam. 2. In my undergraduate engineering writing class we had to make a video taped PowerPoint presentation in front of our classmates. We then analyzed the tapes of each presentation as a class collective. I aced my graduate school presentations class as a consequence of this undergraduate experience. 3. I've been a teaching assistant at both the undergraduate and graduate levels in engineering, and lectured some at the undergraduate level. 4. I've taught on a variety of topics related to professional audio, typically from memory using a whiteboard and responding to the specific requirements of the trainees. I've learned a fair amount about what works, and what doesn't, as a result. [/QUOTE]

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