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Month: November 2023

What makes a skillful teacher?

What makes a skillful teacher?

What can we assume are some qualities of a skillful teacher in adult education? Brookfield (2015) has 4 core assumptions which are: What I would like to offer you is my boiled-down version of the in-depth explanation Brookfield gives of his core assumptions. We need to be able to adapt to classroom conditions, sometimes very rapidly. These conditions could range widely from gender, ethnicity, culture, background, willingness to learn, and so on. Because of this, we as instructors need to…

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Autobiography and Professional Identity

Autobiography and Professional Identity

Hello new readers, new classmates, and new teachers. I’ve written an autobiography in the past and it is under the about me tab up at the top of this page, but I thought I would take this time to refresh this and reflect on my professional identity as this autobiography was written when I was freshly leaving the heavy mechanical industry and moving into instructing heavy mechanical. Wow – things have changed! My Autobiography Through my life I have realized…

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