How To Instruct
Subtitle: Instructor's Guide
Publisher: Patterson Field, Fairfield, Ohio, Fairfield Air Service Command, 1943
Published: 1943
Language: eng
Description: RESTRICTED 
T.O. No. 30-1-3
Table of contents: title: TABLE OF CONTENTS; title: 1. THE INSTRUCTOR AND HIS JOB 1; title: I. You, the Instructor 2; title: II. What an Instructor Does 3; title: III. Why Teach 4; title: Questions 4; title: 2. HOW WE LEARN 5; title: I. How Learning Begins 7; title: A. Learning Begins When We See, Hear, Feel, Smell, or Taste Something 7; title: B. Learning Is Always Built on What We Already Know 7; title: II. How to Strengthen Learning 8; title: A. Giving the Learner an Interest in His Work 8; title: B. Showing the Learner the Relationship Between His Job Today and the Pattern of the Whole 9; title: C. Understanding What We Learn 9; title: D. Learning by Doing 10; title: E. Developing Good Work Habits 10; title: F. Thinking Through a Problem 11; title: III. Feelings That Help or Hinder Learning 12; title: IV. Learning Difficulties Which Trouble Trainees 13; title: Questions 14; title: 3. HOW TO TEACH 15; title: I. How Is It Done. 17; title: II. The Four Steps of a Lesson 17; title: Step 1. The Warm-Up Period 17; title: Step 2. Presentation 18; title: Step 3. Application 19; title: Step 4. Testing 19; title: III. Methods of Presentation 20; title: A. The Lecture Method 20; title: B. The Demonstration 21; title: C. The Use of Illustration 24; title: D. Practice or Drill Lesson 24; title: E. Discussion 26; title: F. Conference 27; title: G. Questioning 29; title: Questions 32; title: 4. INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES 33; title: I. Types of Individual Differences 34; title: II. How Can You Provide for Individual Differences 36; title: III. Differences in Interest 36; title: IV. Differences in Ability 36; title: V. Differences in Emotional Reactions 37; title: VI. Special Problems that Hamper Arrangements for Individual Differences 38; title: Questions 38; title: 5. INSTRUCTING INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS 39; title: I. Instructing One Trainee 40; title: II. Class Instruction 40; title: III. Instruction of Small Groups 42; title: IV. Instructors at Work 42; title: Questions 43; title: 6. SPECIAL TEACHING PROBLEMS 45; title: I. Suggested Adjustments for Problem Trainees 47; title: II. The Trainee Who Does Not Put His Tools Away 49; title: III. The Trainee Who Does Not Know How to Study 50; title: IV. The Trainee Who Forgets 50; title: V. The Trainee Who Cannot Evaluate or Organize 50; title: VI. The Trainee Who Does Not Try to Do a Good Job 50; title: VII. The Trainee Who Does Not Apply His Knowledge 51; title: VIII. The Trainee Who Cannot Do the Work 51; title: IX. Your Attitude Toward Problems 51; title: Questions 52; title: 7. BREAK-DOWN OF A JOB 53; title: I. Job Break-down for Depot Supply 54; title: II. Job Break-down for Aircraft Maintenance 54; title: III. Job Break-down — Installing Turnbuckles 57; title: IV. Job Break-down — Preparing Material for Flush Riveting 59; title: V. Detailed Analysis of Related Information 61; title: VI. Developing the Course of Instruction 62; title: VII. Arranging Content in Instructional Order 63; title: Questions 66; title: 8. PLANNING FOR INSTRUCTION 67; title: I. Know Your Aim and Your Method 68; title: II. Know the Operations and Related Information 68; title: III. Plan the Lesson 69; title: Lesson Plan — Installing a Decalcomania 70; title: Lesson Plan — Installing a Turnbuckle 72; title: IV. Inspect Your Lesson Plan 73; title: V. Prepare a Schedule of Lesson Plans 74; title: Questions 74; title: 9. INSTRUCTIONAL AIDS 75; title: I. Film Strip 76; title: II. Lantern Slides 77; title: III. Projection of Printed Illustrations and Materials 77; title: IV. Training Films 77; title: V. The Blackboard 78; title: VI. Charts, Diagrams, and Graphs 79; title: VII. Objects, Cutaways, Mock-ups, Models, and Process Displays 82; title: VIII. Textbooks, Manuals, and Technical Orders 83; title: IX. Instruction Sheets 84; title: X. Choosing and Using Instructional Aids 85; title: Questions 86; title: 10. INSTRUCTIONAL MANAGEMENT 87; title: I. Good Housekeeping 88; title: II. Shop Lay-out 90; title: III. Ventilation and Light 91; title: IV. Safety in the Shop 93; title: V. Human Relations 95; title: VI. Records and Forms 97; title: Questions 99; title: 11. MEASURING THE RESULTS OF INSTRUCTION 101; title: I. Purpose of Testing 102; title: II. Ways We Check Up on the Trainee’s Work 102; title: III. Preparing to Check the Results of Instruction 103; title: IV. Performance Tests 105; title: V. Objective Tests 107; title: A. Types of Objective Questions 107; title: B. Preparation of Objective Questions 109; title: VI. Essay Tests 112; title: VII. Grading 112; title: VIII. Measurement of Personal Characteristics 114; title: Questions 114; title: 12. APPRAISAL OF THE INSTRUCTOR 115; title: I. Instructor Rating Chart 116; title: II. Appraisal by Your Trainees 120; title: Questions 120; title: 13. THE TRAINING OF WOMEN 121; title: I. What Women Do Well 122; title: II. Limitations of Women Trainees 122; title: III. Suggestions for the Training of Women 123; title: IV. Special Problems in the Training of Women 124; title: V. Notes to Women Instructors 126; title: Questions 126