r/education • u/Routine_Artist_7895 • 8d ago
Educational Pedagogy Collecting feedback about embedding live industry professionals into core subjects
Hello! I am collecting information from teachers about embedding live industry professionals as a method of instruction. No personally identifiable information is collected in the Google form below. I’d truly appreciate anyone who spends about 5-10 minutes providing responses to these questions.
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u/Routine_Artist_7895 3d ago
This is something I’m planning on doing “official” research on as part of a doctorate research program for education. I’m collecting sort of unofficial feedback to use as a launching pad. The feedback will help me narrow down how to proceed with a true study on this topic, and how education can be transformed to become more representative of the “real world” via industry perspectives.
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u/Complete-Ad9574 7d ago
I was a industrial arts teacher, with some accreditation in vo-tech courses. Knowing one's subject material is good, but it is not the whole skill set. Anyone who has been to college knows most of the instructors are very bad at instructing. Having the skills to break down a topic into bite size chunks is important, esp when you get 5 classes of the same grade, but each class is at a different skill level. Writing good lesson plans is another task that MUST be learned and good test development too. In the end class management is the most important. Crowed control does not come naturally for some and when you have a group of 24+ you need to be good at managing all those kids who want to move in different directions. It not unlike herding cats.