[Amps] Entry level license

[Joe]

Every class that I have ever taught, we did use be it the now days 
Question Pools, or in the old days the 70's the "License Manual"

When I taught a class we went to a question, and ripped it apart. 
Decided what answer is the "BEST" answer, but also discussed WHY it is 
the BEST answer.

Then we discussed the other answers, and learned WHY they are NOT the 
best answer.

Then if it was a question that had formulas in it, we'd do the question 
again together with different numbers.

This way they actually understood the stuff. not just memorized.

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On 4/27/2017 12:18 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
> That is often the result of how the class is taught. This winter, I 
> sat in as an observer accompanying my wife in a Technician study 
> class. The instructor was a degreed EE and retired from work as a 
> design engineer. I was quite disappointed to see that he taught only 
> formulas, with no explanations of the concepts behind the formulas. My 
> advice to him afterwards was to slow down his coverage of these very 
> important fundamentals (Ohm's Law, Power, dB, frequency and 
> wavelength, etc.), devoting twice as much time to them and "telling 
> the story" of each concept.  After class and at home, I attempted to 
> fill in the missing stuff, but she was so discouraged by his 
> presentation that she abandoned her pursuit of the license.
>
> To put this in perspective, she's a Ph.D in a biological field, and 
> has no background in physics of any sort. The concepts were quite 
> alien to her. And her only interest in the license was for emergency 
> communications in our mountain community that has no cell service, not 
> enough motivation to cause her to persevere.  :)
>
> My background is a BSEE, 5 years teaching at DeVry in Chicago, and 40 
> years in engineering, mostly as a systems engineer. I learned radio 
> and electronics from the ARRL Handbook, .the Novice study guide, and 
> the older hams in my hometown radio club.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
>
> On Wed,4/26/2017 2:09 PM, Chris Hays wrote:
>> But it shows that people are just memorizing answers and not 
>> understanding
>> much if anything.
>
>
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