David Carman
January 28th, 2009, 08:54 PM
The staff has created a new and more formal syllabus (http://www.oakartcc.com/wiki/index.php/Training_Syllabus) for ground and tower training. This syllabus is intended to be both used by mentors and instructors as a guide for teaching, as well as a reference for students to study for lessons and have a better idea of the training process. Quoted from the syllabus itself.
This syllabus is to be used as the guide on which mentors and instructors shall base lessons. It is also intended to be used by students so you can see what material will be covered when, and the references to that material. The intent of doing this is that students will read the reference material before they meet with a mentor or instructor for the lesson, so they are familiar with the material and can ask more useful questions.
The syllabus is broken up into individual lessons. Each lesson has certain material that will be covered in it, references to that material, and completions standards. Lesson's can be combined or split up, but all the material listed should be covered in a similar order using the references. In order for a student to move on to the next lesson the completion standards of the previous lesson should be met. These standards are not meant to increase stress but to make sure the students understand the material from each lesson before advancing to new material.
As a disclaimer to help avoid problems in the future, while there are suggested locations in the syllabus for instructors and mentors to give SMT and recommend individuals for PVs, it is entirely up to the instructor/mentor's discretion. Additionally, just because you have completed all of the lessons, it does not mean you will automatically pass the PV. Like with a test in school, just because you have been at every lesson and done all the in class work, it does not guarantee you will pass the test (although it definitely helps!).
Effective immediately all mentors and instructors will begin using this new syllabus and for those on ground or tower the mentor or instructor you work with first will decide which lesson you should be on based on where you are in your training. If you have any questions, comments or concerns about this new syllabus please let me know. The syllabus is definitely not written in stone and likely to change!
This syllabus is to be used as the guide on which mentors and instructors shall base lessons. It is also intended to be used by students so you can see what material will be covered when, and the references to that material. The intent of doing this is that students will read the reference material before they meet with a mentor or instructor for the lesson, so they are familiar with the material and can ask more useful questions.
The syllabus is broken up into individual lessons. Each lesson has certain material that will be covered in it, references to that material, and completions standards. Lesson's can be combined or split up, but all the material listed should be covered in a similar order using the references. In order for a student to move on to the next lesson the completion standards of the previous lesson should be met. These standards are not meant to increase stress but to make sure the students understand the material from each lesson before advancing to new material.
As a disclaimer to help avoid problems in the future, while there are suggested locations in the syllabus for instructors and mentors to give SMT and recommend individuals for PVs, it is entirely up to the instructor/mentor's discretion. Additionally, just because you have completed all of the lessons, it does not mean you will automatically pass the PV. Like with a test in school, just because you have been at every lesson and done all the in class work, it does not guarantee you will pass the test (although it definitely helps!).
Effective immediately all mentors and instructors will begin using this new syllabus and for those on ground or tower the mentor or instructor you work with first will decide which lesson you should be on based on where you are in your training. If you have any questions, comments or concerns about this new syllabus please let me know. The syllabus is definitely not written in stone and likely to change!