Realistic Presentation Planner for Comptia Network+

Bogdan_Kluger

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I'm having some difficulty on delivering the course for the new Comptia Network + certification in a week. The training materials contains a Course Paging Guide for a 5 day course but the total estimated instructional time there is 5942 minutes which means aproximately 99 hours, too much for a week.

Do you have any materials with recommendations about the recommended timing for the course so I can deliver the knowledge in a week (8 hours per day)? For example, the old course had a document called Presentation Planner for Network+ which you could have used for schedulling the time.
 
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Whom are you presenting to? If it's for an audience who has some IT experience, then you can focus on the networking-specific materials. If it's for newbies, then they will need to review a lot of material either before or after class. Is this course a bootcamp?
Usually there are mixed people, some of them have very strong knowledge, some of them are newbies.
 
I focus primarily on the content if there is a time issue. One way to save time is to assign labs as evening homework after class.
I saw in other messages that this is your course strategy. But in my experience the students want to practice during the course, if I just show them things they will get bored and will review me negatively. Usually the students have limited time and they will not work after class.
 
I saw in other messages that this is your course strategy. But in my experience the students want to practice during the course, if I just show them things they will get bored and will review me negatively. Usually the students have limited time and they will not work after class.
If I'm only given 40 hours to complete the class, I can do the lecture or the labs. I can't do both. Something gets cut, and it's usually the labs.

CompTIA exams don't require hands-on experience. They haven't required it in a very long time.
 
I saw in other messages that this is your course strategy. But in my experience the students want to practice during the course, if I just show them things they will get bored and will review me negatively. Usually the students have limited time and they will not work after class.
I also add, in my experience, the key is to re-prioritize the content around the core exam objectives... Since your students need practicals as it widens the horizons of their understanding, balancing between theory and practical is important, in "mixed people" environment like this you can mix lecturing(sticking to exam objective) and practicals... For example, having 60% with "very strong knowledge" and 40% "newbies" you can do 40% practicals(benefiting those who have strong knowledge) and the remaining lecturing(for newbies)....That way, the more experienced ones stay engaged with practicals, while the newer ones get the structured foundation they need.