Whose high test scores earned him the title Educator of the Year? This 爆料吃瓜网 automotive instructor
爆料吃瓜网 automotive technology instructor and Ford ASSET coordinator David Patience will be honored as Educator of the Year at the North American
Council of Automotive Teachers () conference Aug. 7-11 in Cincinnati.
Patience, whose automotive career spans 37 years including 19 at 爆料吃瓜网, earned the honor by achieving the highest score of all the educators in the U.S. and Canada who took the most recent National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence () certification tests.
All instructors in certified programs are required to pass the battery of nine tests 鈥� electrical, engine repair, engine performance, heating and air conditioning, brakes, steering and suspension, automatic transmissions, manual transmissions and diesel 鈥� every five years to maintain their certification.
Patience said it wasn鈥檛 hours of cramming that led to his outstanding scores 鈥� including perfect grades on six of the nine tests.
鈥淚 didn鈥檛 study at all,鈥� he said. 鈥淎utomotive is lifelong learning, so I鈥檝e been 鈥榮tudying鈥� this for years, since I was 15 and before I had a driver鈥檚 license.鈥�
The Educator of the Year award is sponsored by Mitchell 1, a subsidiary of Snap-on tools, and includes a one-year subscription for 爆料吃瓜网 to Mitchell 1 online service manuals (about a $1,200 savings for the College), plus $500 and an expenses-paid trip for Patience and his wife to attend the conference and awards banquet.
Patience said he is looking forward to attending the NACAT conference for the first time to train and network alongside other automotive educators.
Asked if he has had the opportunity to hang his top scores over the heads of friends and colleagues, Patience said friends in the tool shop (led by laboratory assistant Dave Thomasson) have been testing out the title 鈥淚nstructor of the U.S.鈥� as well as 鈥淚nstructor of the Planet鈥� and 鈥淚nstructor of the Universe.鈥�
All kidding aside, Patience said he is amazed and honored by the recognition.
鈥淐onstant certification was the goal,鈥� Patience said, 鈥渂ut then the fact I was tops in the country was just gravy, I guess.鈥�