Thank you. I'll always have an ear to listen to experienced educators. Especially trade educators. The amount of attention needed to effectively evaluate student progress in performing a physical action alone is pretty intense (dance instructor comes to mind) but adding in the academic portion makes...

Hello! Thanks for the input. I like the incorporation of expected professionalism into the entirety of the program. I try to break the students into three "primary" groups. 1: The kids who just want to know what this "welding" thing is all about and maybe get a paper from the sch...

Meeting the AWS standards and codes are ultimately the goal of these classes strive to achieve. Their books are unquestionably full of all the right data, but as neil degrasse tyson put it (poorly paraphrased): "Education involves more than just putting the facts out there...It has to be an act...

Thanks for the help everyone. I'm going to look these over (it's a lot of info for me) but at the moment this seems to be exactly what I was searching for. Our previous Fab books were farm equipment repair. while that does have it's place, like half the book was stuff like "Never weld in front ...

I'm currently trying to put together some books for a new associate degree program that will begin Fall 2015 and want to hit the ground running with a complete syllabus ready for review. Although "intro" and "comprehensive" welding texts are plentiful and actually *generally* of ...