SUGGESTION FOR IMPROVING TECHNIQUES OF INCOMING DDP INSTRUCTORS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04484A000100030007-2
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 26, 1999
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: October 4, 1968
• Content Type: MEMO

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U ENLORANDU}4. F'O : Director of Training
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jP.T~E:G't` : Suggestion for Improving Instructional
Techniques of Incoming DDP Instructors
t. bince coming to UTR as a complete neophyte in natters
of instructional techniques, I have become acutely aware of tzze need
for some sort of briefing or instructional period for the DDP operations
officers detailed to OTR for a tour. At the beginning of the first LO
Seminar to which I was assigned. I found myself unaware of such a
seemingly simple matter as seating the students. The problems of
speaker introductions and what to do with a speaker at the end of an
hour's presentation were equally unknown to me. Such routine activity
as the handling of audio-visual equipment raised problems at tie out-
set. There are also many up-to-date techniques which should be
employed by a qualified Chief Instructor to make a given course or
seminar more lively and interesting. Knowledge of these techniques
is not, I have discovered, inherited but rather learned through instruc-
tion.
Z. I feel strongly that the prestige of QTR courses, the
confidence displayed and felt by the instructors themselves and the
success of the course depends greatly on proper orientation of new
instructors. Since, as noted above, good course preparation and
conduct is not sornetissg that an operations officer arrives at naturally,
solution would seem to be a series of lectures by individuals
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knowledgeable on conference and seminar techniques, to take place
prior to a new officer's plunging into the organization of a course.
Granted that, over a period of time, an officer learns by his mistakes,
it would seem nevertheless a waste of time and energy as well as an
invitation to complete or partial failure of the course itself if some
steps are not taken to bring all instructors up to the same level of
competence. In other words, at a time when to much emphasis is
placed on training by the DDP, it would seem logical that the trainers
themselves receive instruction in their new field of endeavor.
3. To fulfill this need, which I am certain is felt by others,
I would suggest that something similar to the course given by 25X1A
- some two years ago be reinstituted. Alternatively, individuals
who have bad long experience in the field of teaching could periodically
organize a small seminar on this subject in order to impart their
knowledge and experience to the newcomers.
25X1A
Distribution:
Original & 1 - DTR
1 - C/OS/TR
2 - IIT/OS/T R.
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