Everyone learns differently. The secret to effective learning is to understand what is the most effective medium for any given student. I find from more of the evaluative side of my job that most will make some very creative errors because of fear, peer pressure, and dinner the night before. As my responsibilities shift more towards evaluation and safety assessments, I have the benefit of flying with almost everyone at the school. I find it curious just how simplistic the concepts of flight are, and how exceedingly difficult said concepts are to teach. As our school grows and develops, I've had the unique position of constantly providing feedback to most of the instructors here about trends that I see with students. The level of learning has developed into great understanding, application and correlation instead of naive regurgitation of facts and paragraphs.
The most difficult part of any evaluation is developing an effective way to involve the student throughout the discussion after a decision has been made to incomplete the evaluation. It is not always advantageous to have consistent feedback from the student after that decision has been made because of the saturation of defence mechanisms in the dialogue. What I find most curious is the misunderstanding of what the student is doing when told of their approach to the debrief. Using those responses to guide the discussion in the direction of the teacher or evaluator is exceptionally easy if the student has no awareness.
Chomp on that one and get back with me...
More to come.
--R.
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