Nine Weeks a teacher education in Army Basic Training eBook Rich Stowell
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Nine Weeks tells the honest story of Army Basic Training.
Rich Stowell left his career as a high school teacher and college education professor as an enlistee in the United States Army. At the barracks of F Battery, 1/40 Field Artillery at Fort Sill Oklahoma, he trained for just over two months as a Soldier in the most powerful Army in the world.
His story is unique. As the oldest man in his training battery (of over 200 soldiers) and the most educated, Stowell had a unique vantage point from which to see and ponder the training regimen. He describes what it was like to live with privates who could have been his students just weeks before, and how young men are taught to fight in the most demanding atmosphere that America has ever produced Soldiers. Drawing on his experience as a professional teacher, he offers a candid assessment about the effectiveness of many components of the Basic Training Program.
Informed people ought to know how the American Soldier is made. In nine weeks-the standard timeline for an Army Basic trainee- he illustrates the process with a sophisticated insight and humor that is a novelty in military books. Funny, yet reverent; critical and honest, Stowell brings refreshing wit and wisdom to the story of how young men are gathered from around the country and molded into modern battlefield warriors.
It is a trip back in time for Soldiers who have run the gauntlet of Army Basic Training. Civilians will appreciate learning Army basics-their rationale and history-from Army rank to modern battlefield tactics. Americans of all ages and political persuasions, whether or not they have friends or family in the military, will enjoy learning about how United States Soldiers are trained.
Nine Weeks a teacher education in Army Basic Training eBook Rich Stowell
I am about to go off to Basic Training at Ft. Sill, am 34 years old, and have a Masters Degree. This book looked to be the perfect preparatory material for me. However what I bought was, essentially, a bitch session. The drill sergeants in charge of his platoon looked little more than immature bullies, while other platoons had much more lenient drill sergeants. In 251 pages and 10 weeks (9 plus reception) I saw what started as a mature individual turn into a whiny 14 year old away from his home for the first time. No doubt that BCT is challenging and will push you to your limit and then some. And I have no doubt that this is how the author remembers his time in training. The one incident that really threw me and inspired this review was towards the end of the book. At the end of training, the drill sergeants present each trainee with a "coin". It is a memento of the challenges overcome. In this case the memento was a dog tag with the Army Core Values. Within two sentences the author dismisses the entire nine weeks by nonchalantly giving it away to his niece. I would be proud to get through BCT, especially without injury and graduate on time. It is a personal challenge. But to the author, BCT is an affront to his intelligence and all things curriculum based. The one use I had for the book was to get a glimpse as to the timeline of the process and what happens. It is for this reason only that this review got two stars instead of one.If you do happen to pick up the book, note two oddities that I have found. One is that the chapter one title is the heading for the entire book. Two is that his spell check determined that quite is a perfect substitute for quiet.
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Nine Weeks a teacher education in Army Basic Training eBook Rich Stowell Reviews
Nothing really groundbreaking in the book, but I think the book set out to be a diary of BCT. I enjoyed it enough, but I would have liked to see more connections between the life of a teacher and the life of soldier.
The book, Nine Weeks, by Rich Stowell, was both poignant and frustrating. I could just feel how he felt as he went through the nine, or rather ten weeks of basic training. Luckily, it was written with a great deal of the author's witty asides and with his well developed sense of humor. Although I was a little dismayed that he was so surprised by his training, didn't he watch G.I. Jane? It certainly put it all into perspective for any newbie to the army.
As a student who plans to be a teacher this book really spoke to me. He makes it easy to relate so many things that happened during basic training to being in a classroom with a bunch of new students. The drill sergeants weren't the best role models for a beginning teacher, but perhaps I could learn just as Rich Stowell did from observing his NCOs. I agree with him that the autocratic task-master style of teaching is not the way I would teach.
In another example of how the Army makes it far more difficult to learn, in the first week they had to sit through classes that which as he says, did not include the "erudite lectures, note-taking, question and answer sessions, studying, and tests", that he expected. They were scripted lectures with PowerPoint presentations that had no reason for them. They were not adding anything to the lecture and so were a waste of technology. I learned that the way to keep a class involved and interested was not the Army way. As a teacher he knew how the classes could have been handled so everyone could learn and I am now very conscious of paying attention to use of technology in my teaching.
Although I have no interest in joining the Army, I gained an appreciation for the men and women who do and learned a lot about how I don't want to teach my classes when I get them.
This book talks about Rich Stowell's experience in the Army National Guard as he spends nine weeks at a rigorous training camp. I am in his Teaching, Learning, and Technology class at the University of San Francisco and let me tell you, he is a great teacher!! The book talks about classes that the soldiers had to attend, and how the lessons were taught. In class, we learn about different ways to incorporate technology into a classroom. One thing that is highly emphasized is the use of powerpoint presentations. We learned that using this form of demonstration software can either enhance or worsen a lesson that you are teaching. In his book, Rich talks about how the presentations that their leaders gave them were boring, sloppy, and unnecessarily long. If you want to be an effective teacher, your powerpoints must be interesting, but not over the top with animations and sounds. Rich taught us this, and many other important things during this class at the University of San Francisco.
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I am studying to become a teacher and I thought this book was very applicable to me. It goes through the first 9 (but really 10) weeks of training in the army, which revolves a lot around teaching. It provides great insight into how the U.S. Military teaches and why some of these strategies are more successful than others. One of the things I took away from this book was how to monitor student's learning during instruction. Or, rather, I learned how absent this concept is in the army. In Week One, Stowell writes of how the soldiers-in-training "learn" from their superiors. After a lesson taught by a PowerPoint, the students were supposed to go study a book about CLS (Combat Life Saver) while simultaneously doing push-ups. Then were then tested on the material in multiple-choice fashion. If they did not get it, it was too bad, and they wouldn't know they didn't get it until that final test. This is what I don't want to do as a teacher. It is so important to monitor student's progress as the lessons and units progress, so they're not out of luck in the end like the soldiers who didn't learn about enough about CLS. In conclusion, I think this book can definitely benefit teachers of adolescents who have no relationship with the military. Mostly, they will learn what not to do from Stowell and his experience of the 9 weeks of Basic Training.
I am about to go off to Basic Training at Ft. Sill, am 34 years old, and have a Masters Degree. This book looked to be the perfect preparatory material for me. However what I bought was, essentially, a bitch session. The drill sergeants in charge of his platoon looked little more than immature bullies, while other platoons had much more lenient drill sergeants. In 251 pages and 10 weeks (9 plus reception) I saw what started as a mature individual turn into a whiny 14 year old away from his home for the first time. No doubt that BCT is challenging and will push you to your limit and then some. And I have no doubt that this is how the author remembers his time in training. The one incident that really threw me and inspired this review was towards the end of the book. At the end of training, the drill sergeants present each trainee with a "coin". It is a memento of the challenges overcome. In this case the memento was a dog tag with the Army Core Values. Within two sentences the author dismisses the entire nine weeks by nonchalantly giving it away to his niece. I would be proud to get through BCT, especially without injury and graduate on time. It is a personal challenge. But to the author, BCT is an affront to his intelligence and all things curriculum based. The one use I had for the book was to get a glimpse as to the timeline of the process and what happens. It is for this reason only that this review got two stars instead of one.
If you do happen to pick up the book, note two oddities that I have found. One is that the chapter one title is the heading for the entire book. Two is that his spell check determined that quite is a perfect substitute for quiet.
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