Stick-n-Rudder Flight Training, LLC

January 4, 2010

Flight Instructor training course KSGS

  1. Course Introduction @ 17:00 CST
  2. Goal is to prepare you for the FAA Knowledge Test for FOI/AGI
  3. Goal is to prepare you for the CFI Oral & Practical Exam (*additional outside class flight training required at the flight school of your choice).
  4. Gleim is the official class text and syllabus, with supplemental FAA and other sources.
  5. The course weekly syllabus and reading will be posted online at www.sticknrudder.com/2010.htm
  6. As part of our agreement with the FAA for Wings and Flight Instructor Refresher Clinic certifications, to receive your logbook and course endorsements you must complete all required subject matter areas and course time requirements.
  7. The Flight Instructor candidates will each be expected to intern with the Private Pilot ground school course and assist in teaching the CFI and Private courses, and mentoring the student pilots. Weeks and units will be assigned so that you may prepare your lesson plan.
  8. Instructor and Flight Instructor Candidates introductions
  9. www.lsanorth.com/cfi.htm
  10. Additional speakers in the past include; Manny, Barb, Kim, ATC, and more
  11. Field trips may be arranged to ATC, Tower, CAP, EAA, Flight Simulators, and more.
  12. Candidate instructions; who, when did you start flying, experience, and why do you want to become a Certificated Flight Instructor?
  13. Aviation Instructors Handbook FAA-H-8083-9 (1999) FAA-H-8083-9A (2008)
  14. The Learning Process
  15. Behaviorism ~ someone else stresses importance of a behavior than the student
  16. Cognitive Theory ~ the student is controlling his thinking, actions, and behavior
  17. Combined approach
  18. Definition of learning is a change in behavior as a result of experience.
  19. Characteristics of Learning
  20. Purposeful
  21. Result of experience
  22. Multifaceted (Verbal, conceptual, motor, problem solving, emotional)
  23. Active Process (Scenario Based Training)
  24. Principles of Learning
  25. Readiness
  26. Exercise (do and redo)
  27. Effect (emotional reactions)
  28. Primacy (instructor needs to teach, demonstrate, it right the first time)
  29. Intensity (in the plane vs. reading a book)
  30. Recentcy
  31. How People Learn
  32. Sight 75% Hearing 13% Touch 6% Smell 3% Taste 3%
  33. Perceptions and Factors Affecting Perception
  34. Physical self Basic need Goals & values Time & Opportunity Element of threat
  35. Insight involves grouping of perceptions into meaningful wholes
  36. Motivation is the dominant force governing student progress
  37. Levels of Learning
  38. Rote
  39. Understanding
  40. Application
  41. Correlation
  42. Domains of Learning
  43. Cognitive (knowledge)
  44. Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, Evaluation
  45. Affective (attitudes, beliefs, values)
  46. Receiving, Responding, Valuing, Organization, Characterization
  47. Psychomotor (physical)
  48. Perception, Set, Guided response, Mechanism, Complex overt response, Adaption, Origination
  49. Learning Physical Skills
  50. Desire
  51. Patterns to follow
  52. Perform
  53. Knowledge of results
  54. Duration of Lessons
  55. Evaluations vs. Critique
  56. Memory
  57. Sensory (hot to touch, remember pain)
  58. Working or Short Term (20 seconds and its gone – squawk code, steer)
  59. Memory Aides ~ PARE, ANDS, IMSAFE etc
  60. Long-Term Memory
  61. Disuse Interference Repression
  62. Retention of Learning
  63. Praise Association Attitudes All Senses Repetition
  64. Transfer of Learning
  65. Primacy
  66. Habits
  67. Building Blocks of Learning

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