Shift in Focus

I've been doing some ground school with a local student pilot to help him along while I practice teaching in this context. While there are similarities between classroom teaching and flight training, there are many differences.

Chief among these is the direct correlation between success and survival. The key in primary flight training is to provide enough information, but not so much that the student cannot see the critical data and develop a framework upon which to hang progressive addition of knowledge.

This winnowing down of important information will the the biggest challenge for me, I think. So far the focus of preparation and training is to collect and know all sorts of content, and then give evidence of that knowledge to an examiner. While there will still be the "prove to me you know this stuff" component of the CFI oral, the gear shifting will happen when the Examiner becomes the student.