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8 Gut Reasons to Provide Hands-On Practice in Equipment Training

…And My Reactions to Them
1. Practice builds competence.

Certainly this is a primary goal of hands-on practice. But what is competence?  Performance-based training defines competence as meeting the requirements of the performance objective.  But for competence to result from practice, at least three things must be true:

The conditions of the practice must realistically reflect the [...]

How shoveling snow made me think of starting this blog.

I was shoveling snow lately. It was then that the idea for this website began to form.

Snow job: This is when we begin to fill time with a lot of theory, some degree of which is irrelevant and useless. This can be prompted by many things, like lack of access to a machine [...]