Co-active Teaching Revs Up the Energy.

December 14, 2009

“Co-active teaching” is a collaboration between teacher and student. The purpose of this arrangement is to generate mutual respect, interest and participation, which leads to the creation of educational moments.

Image your students:

• Being aware of the qualities that move a class forward and hold it back.
• Being mentally present.
• Making conscious choices.
• Being in harmony with their studies.  

Teaching is a team sport. Team sports have coaches who call the plays. Plays have an order to them and are designed to move the team forward. There is an order to teaching and instructors who are co-actively skilled employ an axiom that just about every coach would agree on, “When you start true, you end true.

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