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Friday is for tutoring.
I am a big fan of tutoring. As a Senior I started a reading program where students could check out tutoring materials without saying who they were tutoring: boy friend, girl friend, brother, sister, parents, students from other schools. Being anonymous was the key. My question was how do you pronounce GH: Hugh. Light. Ghost.
At BYU I tutored others students, started a class for students where English was hard, my innovation was to use a rhyming dictionary to find words and started with sentence structures with no punctuation except the final period. And I started study groups.
At work I started study groups for training of emerging technology, following is a paper that I had published in November 1999 in Crosstalk the largest DOD periodical of the day:
Rapid Emerging Knowledge Deployment
Raytheon Learning Institute
This paper describes how to manage technical knowledge that is transitioning faster than subject mat- ter specialists, human resource analysis, and education deployment trainers can respond through tradi- tional competencies. Radical learning techniques used by self-directed emerging technology study groups can serve as a management tool for gaining and leveraging the knowledge necessary to take advantage of rapidly emerging technology. Reduced education material costs, software licenses, and deployment costs are empowering individuals to drive the speed of technology change, teams to gain emerging tech- nology, and managers to deploy knowledge as a strategic advantage.