Tagged: Dann Sternsher

Dann Sternsher: Looking for a few good instructors…

IDJ member Dann Sternsher of G4 Personal Safety:

I’m a GREAT instructor! (tongue firmly planted in cheek)… I am now in my third decade of teaching and training folks and kids with firearms… pistols, rifles, shotguns. I’m highly recommended by former students, my post-course evaluations are always excellent, women in particular find my instruction on-target for them and regularly recommend me, I have books full of certifications from the NRA, 4H Shooting Sports, firearm training entities, and from my days in law enforcement… I’m even an NRA appointed Training Counselor who can train other instructors. So I wouldn’t recommend me…

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Malcolm Knowles’ The Adult Learner: A Neglected Species

IDJ member Dann Sternsher of G4 Personal Safety writes:

An old classic on instructional design for adult learners from back in my grad school days of instructional design is available online… it does a great job of overviewing many classic learning theories and is surprisingly still relevant in discussing adult learning today… a good read for instructors… and an easy read for academic-type material… it’s also a reminder that much of what I see firearms instructors “discovering” in terms of best practices for instruction and training is already known and just being applied to this particular field…

Click here to read The Adult Learner: A Neglected Species (PDF)

Thanks Dann!