The Inner Creates The Outer
November 11, 2009
You can’t plant beans and grow potatoes, any more than you can expect a class to perform when a teacher’s energy is else where.
One of the big challenges of life and teaching is knowing what we want and our willingness to create it.
Teachers who want to be more effective may want to clarify with students:
- The kind of class they want to create
- What type of energy they want in the room
- The skills they want their students to take with them
- What they want to be known for
- The parent/teacher relationship and its affect on the student
We produce, not from our words, but from our heart, which brings to light a universal law we rarely consider, “The inner creates the outer.”
Students Don’t Hear The Teacher, Until They Know The Teacher!
November 6, 2009
Instructors allow students to know them when they:
- Have a meaningful discussion as what is to be learned and why
- Explain the rules governing the class
- Invite students to participate in the creation of “educational moments”
Tips for building bridges:
- Clarity – If you can’t describe your vision, lesson or goal, in one or two sentences, you may be guilty of not having a command of your topic.
- Organize your thoughts in a meaningful way. Make it easy for students to follow you’re logic.
- Memorable Stories. People rarely remember your exact words. Instead, they remember the mental images that your words inspire. Support your key points with vivid, relevant stories. Help students “make the movie” in their heads by using memorable characters, exciting situations, dialogue, suspense and above all, humor.
- Engage a student’s emotions. Emotions answer an unspoken question that fills every student’s mind, “What’s in it for me.”
