From: Ahmed Elhoussiny (aelhoussiny@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Oct 10 2008 - 12:02:44 ART
I agree with Bogdan Sass , Im Also working in Cisco Academy as a part time @
Cairo Egypt
Kindly read this post by Mr. Jeff Doyle. (ofcorse we all know who is Jeff )
*Submitted by jdoyle <http://www.networkworld.com/community/user/2404> on
Wed, 02/27/2008 - 11:06pm.* *The Itch to Teach*
I mentioned in some earlier blog that things always seem to come in waves.
One year I'll make multiple trips to Japan. Another year, jobs will pop up
that require repeated trips to China or the UK or Korea or Australia. Nice
work, if you have good strategies for keeping your sanity on those endless
overseas flights.
By the same token, technology-specific jobs seem to keep bunching up on me.
Last year almost every consulting job I did concerned IPv6. Over the past
few months, it's been MPLS.
But also over the last few months, I've been engaged by numerous customers
to teach technology classes. Some have been short seminars on business or
technical directions, but most have been multiple-day technology seminars on
things like OSPF and IS-IS, BGP, MPLS, and Class of Service. While I've
never wanted to be a full-time network instructor (can't take the repetition
and daily grind), I love teaching a few times a month.
The classes that are a special blast are the go-to-the-whiteboard,
lecture-and-discussion, no-PowerPoint-allowed, technical deep-dives that
develop from fundamental to advanced concepts.
And not vendor specific. Too many classes spend too much time just showing
you how to enter commands for a particular system. I adamantly believe that
if you understand the technology or protocol, and know what you want to
accomplish, you can do it with any vendor's equipment by just reading the
manuals.
Part of the reward for me, as it is for many teachers, is the joy of
watching someone "get it." Usually what they "get," with eyes lighting up,
is the answer to a "why" question: Why pseudonodes are necessary in link
state networks. Why a full IBGP mesh is required. Why, as I wrote about
recently, Route Distinguishers and Route Targets have the same formats but
perform different functions.
There's also an aspect of teaching that's distinctly beneficial to me as a
network architect. Explaining technologies and protocols to others helps me
understand them better myself. Often I have to go back and remind myself why
something is the way it is. More often I don't think I've ever taught a
class where this didn't happen at least once someone asks a question that
I've not heard before, and either makes me think if an old topic in a new
way or makes me hit the references to find the right answer.
*For every class I teach, I learn something new myself.*
*So if you really want to enhance your own knowledge, and gain some personal
satisfaction of helping others along the way, try teaching a class!*
The POST FOR Jeff Doyle : *http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/25484
*
*Thanks & B.Regards
Ahmed Elhoussiny, CCIE # 21988 (R&S)
Network Eng. & Cisco Academy Instructor*
CCNP-CCDP-CCIP
Cisco Express Foundation Design Specialist ( FOUNDSE 642-371 & LCSE 646-392
)
Cisco IOS Security Specialist ( SNRS 642-503 & SND 642-552 )
Cisco Certified Academy Instructor ( CCAI )
*'I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something.,But I can't accept not
trying.'
' Every class i teach , i learn something new myself '*
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Joe Rinehart <jjrinehart@hotmail.com>wrote:
> Yes, I am prepping for next week's class an teaching on the same
> topic...personally I hate spanning tree but the lesson preparation has
> helped solidify the concepts in my mind...
>
> Joe Rinehart
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Joseph Brunner
> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:47 AM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com; reis.henrique@gmail.com;
> ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: RE: How to keep CCIE
>
> Start teaching the NEW CCNP track in your spare time at a local school or
> college, or even amongst junior engineers.
>
> Its good to give back, and you WILL keep your knowledge!
> (just taught my spantree PVST/RSTP/MST lesson last night)
>
> ;)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> reis.henrique@gmail.com
> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 1:27 PM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: How to keep CCIE
>
> Hi Guys,
>
> Maybe this could be a stupid question but I have to ask it.
>
> After you got your number how do you keep all stuff that you studied and
> learned, I say because if you don't use for example Multicast, I don't use
> it
> in my company today so in sometime I can forgot it, the same for QoS I
> don't
> use today either.
>
> I'll starting to study for SP track, so for a while I will keep my
> acknowledgement but and after, what do you do??
>
> Thanks in advanced,
>
> Henrique Reis
> CCIE #22233
>
>
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