From Trainer to Educator a personal perspective

1
From Trainer to Educatora personal perspective

• Asst. Prof. James Buster Hall
• Department of Criminal Justice
• Northeastern State University
• Broken Arrow, Oklahoma

2
A little personal background

• 20 years law enforcement experience
• Bachelors degree in Philosophy and Juris Doctor
• Chief Advisor to the Kosovo Police Service for
  Policy and Administration

3
Three Things to Know

• Definitions
• Who is your audience?
• Things not considered beforehand

4
Definitions

• What does it mean to train? What does it mean
  to educate?
• To train is to instruct in the how of a thing
• To educate is to instruct in the why of a thing
• To teach is what we hope to achieve

5
To Train is to Teach How

• Trainers concentrate on teaching skill sets
• Trainers are masters of a craft who pass on their
  skills to apprentices

6
To Educate is to Teach Why

• Educators focus on teaching the background of a
  thing
• Educators are mentors to the uneducated

7
Audience

• Trainers usually speak with an audience that they
  are familiar with and have a shared background
• Educators usually speak with an audience with a
  wide and varied background who we do not know

8
Things Not Considered Beforehand

• Bridging the gap between practitioner and
  educator
• academic snobbery vs. practitioner snobbery
• teaching and writing, Do I have to?
• committees, committees, committees
• academia time vs. real time
• wheres my training officer?

9
Synthesis

• A trainer who becomes an educator combines the
  how and the why and allows for a well-rounded
  educational experience for the students
• The ability to bridge the gap between trainer and
  educator is a difficult, not impossible step

10
The Payoff

• A salary after retirement
• Better than spending all of your time fishing or
  playing golf
• Keeps you from becoming addicted to daytime TV
• It allows you to continue to influence the future
  of your profession, to pass on knowledge and
  wisdom to the next generation of practitioners,
  to continue to make a difference in the lives of
  others, to be called teacher

11

• Questions?
• Thank you for your time and attention
• - Buster Hall